Is that you, Joan?
Christina Henricks‘ “Mad Men” alter-ego is a far cry from the “misfit” the star says she was in high school.
The Emmy-nominated actress took a stroll down memory lane on Thursday’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” where she showed off the goth-like style she sported as a teen.
Hendricks, now 35, provided the show with a picture from more than 10 years ago, where she looks contemplative while dressed in black leather with jet black hair.
“If I went to my high-school reunion nobody would recognize me,” she said. “I was a bit of a misfit in high school.”
Hendricks also revealed that she had a reverse mullet of sorts, switching up the “business in the front, party in the back” hairdo to be the opposite.
“What you can’t see in this picture is that the back of my head is shaved,” she recalled.
Hendricks told the Nov. issue of Harper’s Bazaar that both men and women hit on her. (Photo: Terry Richardson)
The actress, who is often revered for her curvy, hourglass figure, is naturally a blond, but has dyed her hair red since she was 10, she told Los Angeles Times Magazine earlier this year.
But it was the challenge of fitting in that led Hendricks to try yet a different color.
“I’d been living in Idaho and moved to Fairfax, Virginia. The girls there had purses and I still had my backpack from Idaho,” she explains on “Ellen.” “So I tried to set myself apart and it ended up with multicoloured hair.”
While her “Mad Men” character might thumb her nose at the rebellious look, Hendricks looks back on it fondly.
“It was how I was expressing myself and I’m happy about it,” she said. “I look at that picture and think – ‘She’s cute.'”
