Hallelujah.
Anyone who thinks this figure can’t be styled should shut their pieholes, because this dress fits it like a glove, without all the mammarial overflow that typically categorizes her missteps. A higher neckline isn’t any less sexy; simple clearly can be stunning. Her milkshake will still bring all the boys to the yard (and it will still put my milkshake to shame). I hope Christina Hendricks got the digits of the stylist for this cover shoot. And then maybe ordered one of these in green.
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EXACTLY.
Yes, redheads + green = awesome. So is this, even if its a bit beige-y. I covet her hair.
She looks great! And while I have no doubt there’s a bit of airbrushing happening, I would like to thank the digital team at Lucky for not giving a truly curvy woman a 24″ waist on the cover of a magazine.
I would also like to thank the stylist of this magazine who has broken the trend of “Christina Hendricks shoot? Bring on the lingerie!”
This is absolutely wonderful. Her hair looks fantastic–dare I say I covet it even more than Kate Middleton’s?–and the outfit is perfect. I love it. A worthy cover to match her Emmy nod!
I’m putting a vote in for cobalt blue or deep purple. Although, agreed, homegirl should just get this in every color.
It is SO HARD to find a dress for a large bust. It’s like having to buy a dress that’s one size up top, but a smaller size for the lower half. However, the color of the dress is perfect for her — it doesn’t clash with her hair, which looks so phenomenal.
I’m getting this magazine as soon as I get off work. She looks great!
I love her because she’s got a similar body shape to my own. But, I can’t get past the fact that she so clearly has implants. It just always makes me love her just a little less. That, and the fact that I don’t think she’s a natural redhead. I totally want this dress, though.
Darleene, you are so right. I started buying dresses and taking them straight to the tailor. Everything fits much better when it’s built for you!
She is really pretty, but the dress looks just a bit too tight to me. I agree that this would be even better in green, or maybe a deep purple!
I confess, I think she’s so pretty that it doesn’t even matter to me what she wears.
Candy, she so does NOT have implants. Contrary to popular belief, it is possible for a woman to have naturally large boobs without being a size 24. Especially when you consider that she isn’t that small to begin with.
Candy – she has openly admitted she’s a natural blonde. She went red at a very young age and has never looked back.
CH is a dish, period. This dress just (loudly) reminds the world of that fact.
This is the best I’ve ever seen her look. Kudos!
OMG, if I were that voluptuous, I’d get a dress like that in every (flattering) color!!
Best she’s ever looked. Hands down.
And that’s IT- my hair will be dyed this week. Who knows what product her stylist uses?
Candy, as a woman with a very large bust, I actually think CH so clearly does NOT have implants. Their size and shape (and sag!) are so obviously natural to me that it surprises me when people say they “know” she has implants. Honey, if you could buy breasts that look like that, EVERYONE would have them.
By the way, the placement of this entry right above the sickly-looking Melissa George post makes her look like the picture of health and happiness!
Yeah, no, the boobs are real. I suggest checking out her two episodes in Joss Whedon’s Firefly. She looks gorgeous, and there’s absolutely no doubting that she’s all natural.
And – I want that dress in all colors of the rainbow.
I hope she not only got the number of the stylist but that she put him or her on speed dial.
@Candy:
She’s not a natural red-head, she has said as much. She naturally has dark blonde hair, but she prefers to wear it red.
As for her breasts – whatever. If she is helping eliminate the waif model, then I can’t get too upset. Real or fake, though, she needs to learn how to wrangle them.
She looks like the cover of a magazine, so my amazement is tempered by my concern about how much photoshopping may have been involved. I think this dress is a fine color and would look great in any solid shade. But do redheads get tired of being told they must wear green all the time?
Who made the dress?
She looks fantastic! YAY for the Lucky stylist who did this!
Also, it’s great example of the color palette you need to be able to wear beige well. Red hair, pale skin, check! Black hair, rich brown skin, check! White hair, any skintone at least a few shades off from the beige fabric, check! (This last see Helen Mirren — the white hair makes it work.) The key is having three distinct colors with hair, skin, and dress. Shoes don’t count.
Heather your Hallelujah is too small
@Caroline:
Appears to be a Donna Karan:
http://www.luckymag.com/magazine/2011/08/christina-hendricks-s-favorite-things#slide=1
Just might be the best she has looked. Although I confess to a fondness for the lavender gown she wore to one of the awards shows.
Props to Lucky for not completely chopping off her hands via Photoshop, or having her strike some kind of awkward pose. I do wish the dress weren’t beige, but I agree it looks great on her.
As for the whole implants thing, ever since that 1999 Playboy picture of her came out (the creepy one with the clown…Google it), I’ve been forced into thinking she has implants. Her breasts are clearly a B or so in that photo (when she was 24) and now at 36 she has at least a D+. It just makes me quite skeptical. I’m a 34B @ 27 years old, so yeah, I’d certainly appreciate going up 2+ cup sizes 9 years into further adulthood. *cough*
Granted she was a lot skinnier in the 1999 pic, but I still can’t suspend my disbelief no matter how hard I try. Okay, rant over…*shrug*
P.S. Please don’t hate on me. Christina Hendricks is gorgeous and I like Mad Men, I’m just saying I’ve been a little skeptical of the breast worship ever since I saw that photo, but I’m certainly no expert on growth, etc.
Wow, didn’t know I would create such a stir. I AGREE that it is good to break the waif mold/ideal. As I said, I’m shaped very similarly to how CH is now… so I know you don’t have to be a “size 24″ to have big boobs. I just know that I’ve seen pictures of her when she was thin & she had little boobs. I’m sorry but I have a hard time believing that the increase in boob size came only from weight gain. Read this: http://inyourface.ocregister.com/2011/02/09/christina-hendricks-implants-see-photos/26112/
Sarah- this is the ONLY picture of her in the whole magazine. I picked it up at the salon because of how awesome she looked on the cover- they have three more pictures with clothing and stuff, a tiny interview, but no more photos. It’s tragic.
It’s nice to see a picture of her where the focus is her face. Which is lovely; also I would use any and all products, up to and including the tears of angels, if they would make my hair look like that. Red might not be her natural color, but that is some fantastic mane. WANT!!
A royal blue would also look beautiful on her
Yes, she looks FABULOUS, but I cannot stop coveting her hair. Seriously drool-worthy locks!!!
Christian,
I thought in the old photo it was partly because she was thinner then, but also because she was in a string bikini with absolutely no support… Personally, if I put on a double push-up bra and a tight dress my boobs look HUGE but you’d never guess it if you saw me in a bathing suit.
Plus, I just want to believe they’re real
@Christian:
No hate here. I agree. I was an undiagnosed hypothyroid and gained 75 lbs as a result. While my bust definitely went up a couple of cup sizes, it didn’t go up *that* much. And there’s no way she gained 75 lbs from that photo-shoot, unless she gained it all in her breasts. Which is almost metabolically impossible.
As long as she wrangles them, what she does with her body is her own business, as far as I’m concerned. If she’s not going to hire this stylist (because despite what Lucky claims, I doubt this was in her closet), then needs to call Sofia Vergara and her stylist to discuss proper wrangling technique.
Wow, a whole lot. That body is very severely bangin’, and I’m a straight girl. It is all too wonderful to see her not looking downright bizarre (that purple-ish fringed/feathery thing she wore to the Emmys, anyone?), and in something that shows her off (even if it is just a skosh snug around the hips) I want someone to teach her to tell stylists, “No, I’m not going to wear that. It won’t flatter me, and will make me look bonkers.”
Not only do I hope she got that stylists digits, I hope she passed them on to Jessica Simpson.
Yeah, her hair has been lots of colors. I saw her on Ellen and she showed a picture of herself as a teenager with black hair that she pointed out was shaved up the back. I also just read something where she said she’d never go back to her natural hair color, so she’s never pretended she’s a natural redhead.
Her boobs look real to me; I just think she has a great support system, heh. I’m a natural 36D and hers look bigger than mine; I’d guess she’s a 36 or 38DD. She supports them well but I bet if you saw her braless, there’d be the sagging that comes with all big natural boobs (and all boobs everywhere, eventually). They don’t have that bolted-on look of obvious implants – if she does have fake ones, they’re good fakes.
Wow, she looks beyond great here. I actually really like the beige, not everyone can wear that color well but she is rocking it. It breaks my heart that the dress is so expensive! I would love to have that in my closet.
She is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, and her body is AMAZING! I agree, whatever she’s doing to make her body look like that is fine by me. But I also do want them to be real. I’m kind of surprised GFY didn’t say that this dress was too tight on her, I feel like whenever a dress looks like it’s stretching across the body, GFY thinks it’s too tight. Sometimes true, sometimes not. I did think this looked a little tight. But maybe that’s because I wear a 36DDD and my boobs have actually broken out of tight clothing in the past.
Thank goodness she looks good, when the tag on the cover is, “Style tips that shape.” What kind of advertising would it have been if she’d looked ghastly?
And she looks so sweeet and pretty!
I had to google the Playboy photo and I don’t think CH was a B cup in that photo. I think the bikini top de-emphasizes her chest in the picture. There’s more, uh, girth (?) there than at first glance (and yes, I felt slightly pervy checking it out, especially with the clown!) I think her weight gain could definitely explain the increase in chest size.
I’m not saying she didn’t get implants, but I don’t think so. Just my 2 cents. *shrug*
@snuffy….I want to believe they’e real too! I’m just skeptical, but because I like her I’ll tentatively lean on the side of “real”. I do agree they don’t *look* fake. Seems like EVERYONE would be rushing to her surgeon if they were. *shrug again*
To me, they definitely seem real. I have had a very similar change in my breasts- when I was in my early 20s, they were maybe a smallish C, which is what Christina’s look like in that bikini picture. I gained about 30 pounds, and they went up to at least a DD. I lost some weight and now they are maybe a smallish D. I think my body reacts very similarly to weight gain as hers. I buy that the sized difference could be naturally occurring. I also think they look real, and the rest of her body has gotten bigger along with her breasts.
Love this Donna Karen on her, but I, too, was disappointed in the actual article, since it’s the only outfit she sports. Still, I suppose one dress is better than a lingerie “spread”. No doubt she’s been slimmed via PS, but they slim down Jessica Alba so why would we expect CH to be an exception to the rule?
Overall, I was extremely pleased to see her looking so beautifully put together on one of my fave mags. This dress on the runway model looked like a shapeless sack, so it’s lovely to see what it looks like on someone with a fuller figure.
Ooo, yes, in green. She looks fantastic, well played.
I actually really do not like this cover at all. They take someone edgy and interesting looking like Christina Hendricks and then make her look like she is plying her new TBS sitcom on the cover of Redbook. I think that reaction has mainly to do with her girl next door smile and her big big hair though. I guess her accessories are pretty amazing but I just really don’t care for her dress. The fabric is from a camel overcoat that Diane Keaton sported in Baby Boom and the built in pashmina arm cover is very obviously “forgiving” or “flattering” for someone as good looking as CH. Next time no fat girl snuggy dress for this natural beauty please.
Oh thank goodness. Even aside from her dress finally fitting and flattering, someone finally did something with her FACE! She’s a really pretty girl, but she and her stylists (other than for this shoot) have not figured out how to do simple hair and makeup that flatter her features, and she’s finally learning how to smile for the cameras in the best way for her (a “must” for someone who does photo shoots as part of their job).
She looks stunning. I agree there’s probably a bit of photoshopping going on at her waist, and I’d also prefer the dress in a jewel tone, but she’s just gorgeous here. Damn. She’s shooting a film with Chris Colfer right now, and it’s an even race as to which one of them has the most flawless ivory skin.
My take on the real/not-real debate basically comes down to: why would someone who wanted to be in the public eye do that to herself on purpose? Since Mad Men started she’s been complaining that she doesn’t get sent as many clothes as January Jones does, and she must be tired of all the magazine pieces that focus solely on those particular assets. Plus, big boobs hurt. They make your back sore, they can cause you to stoop. If they were fake, she could surely have said “I’d like to be a little more Salma Hayek and a little less Dolly Parton, please.”
I dunno, I do have my suspicions sometimes, but I agree that if they’re fake they’re some of the best fakes out there. Either way, I love her and she looks healthy, happy and beautiful here.
She looks great. I love her hairstyle.
Damn, that’s perfect.
Oh my god, she looks AMAZING. She needs to hire this stylist, like, yesterday.
@Filmcricket:
This thread has made me think about this today. (Usually, couldn’t give a rat’s patootie.) Breast size does go up and down naturally, but that usually goes with pregnancy or massive weight gain and loss. Christina Hendricks appears not to fall into either of these categories (as she claims to have gained only 15 lbs from her thinner modeling days, which I find reasonable).
So I wonder if maybe she got some implants when she was thinner and then gained her lovely, curvy weight. Because I don’t think they look fake (breasts that large aren’t going to behave like your average B or C cup), but when you look at the 1999 picture Christian mentioned above, they are suspiciously large for such a relatively small weight gain. But a weight gain would soften any of the more obvious appearance issues around having implants.
Also, the fact that she doesn’t seem to dress them well tends to make me think that she didn’t grow up understanding how to cope with a large cup size. My college roommate was a full D cup who had developed early – her wardrobe was filled with clothes heavily altered, restructured, or custom-made by her mother to deal with her bust line. (And I say “was” because the Breast Fairy tooketh-away instead of granting her larger breasts post child-birth, which she’s very happy about
)
On the flip side, it could be that Playboy actually diminished her cleavage in that picture for some reason. But I honestly don’t remember how widespread aggressive Photoshopping was in 1999, and wonder if that would even have happened.
Bottom line: if they’re fakes, that’s between her and an obviously skill plastic surgeon. If they’re not, then her genetics are truly astounding.
Either way, it’s her body, and her business.
Oh – and yes, a Porcelain-off between Kurt Colfer and Christina Hendricks. That would be a tough one!
also gorgeous hair! i want to go to there….
She’s so pretty! And this photo makes me hope we’ll get to see Joan do disco.
I think it should maybe be mentioned though that this dress is probably held together with clamps in the back to get that fit for the photo. She’s so curvy and has such a little waist that it has to be insane trying to get a really good fit in anything that isn’t separates. Imagine trying to shimmy into that dress with that rack and those hips without ripping a seam. I call shenanigans. Or an extremely long zipper.
She looks so delicious, I want to eat her up with a spoon. And I’m straight … I think. She makes me doubt it. The dress is divine.
I think she looks amazing! In answer to some of the other commenters, yes, it’s possible for boobs to increase considerably (mine were very insignificant – 32B, which is fine on someone else I’m sure, but I’m tall so they kind of “disappeared” – when I was younger and are now 36D) and yes, as a natural redhead, I do get heartily tired of people telling me I “should” wear green. As a child, my (ultra conservative) mother repeatedly told me that only dark green, brown, dark blue and – on wild, caution-to-the-wind occasions – dark purple would ever suit me. Funnily enough, as soon as I broke free of her clothes-buying chains, I stopped wearing just about ALL those colours (I have nothing dark blue, dark green or brown) and now prefer cobalt blue, pistachio green, red, pink, orange, yellow…
I give her credit for having her colored hair done so that it looks good — no contrasting roots. And she even combed it! That seems to be a lost art in Hollywood. I like the little capelet thing as a contrast to the formfit everywhere else. But beige? I guess nothing’s perfect.
Love it. Great cut, and the neutral tone works well with the overall color scheme of the magazine cover, and could be made to shine elsewhere with the right accessories. And I’ll add this: THIS is big hair done right.
Ha, no, I was a B-cup in my early 20s, went on the pill, gained about 40 pounds which never went away and now have D-cup breasts which look considerably larger in a push-up bra. It happens.
@king – I had to learn to sew just to make my clothes fit my small waist/big hips or small shoulders/big bust.
I think this cover is perfection. So much so that I found myself buying the magazine in the grocery aisle. [Sadly, the inside of the magazine is a giant bust -- no pun intended! -- with no more Christina and almost nothing else worth mentioning either.] To weigh in on the Great Hendricks Breast Debate: She looks natural to me. I have almost the exact same figure as her. (If only I had her height … and her face … and her hair!). I was a C cup through my late 20s, but since then, my cup size has grown to where it’s now a letter in the alphabet not normally associated with bra sizes. I have a very small band size, which is one reason the cup size is large. And yes, it is possible to find dresses that fit and flatter and that you can get into and out of if you have large breasts and hips and small waist — but they aren’t easy to find. Pants are the worst, though, if you have a small waist and large hips. I’m thrilled to see Christina looking so perfectly dressed and styled here!
Her hair is all weird…like it belongs to someone else.
I just sort of wonder if in the earlier pictures she hadn’t finished developing yet. You know how gymnasts and skaters are so tiny and usually relatively underdeveloped while they’re training, but their bodies can change quite a bit once they stop? I could see something similar happening with someone who was staying thin young to model. Because they really don’t look fake, and I agree with the commenter above who wondered why she would pick this exact look if she’d had implants. I get the impression that there is ONE model of boob-dom for ladies in Hollywood, and as wonderful as Hendricks looks, she doesn’t fit that model.
The hair: utter perfection (why can’t mine look like that, dammit!).
The makeup: flawless.
The dress: fabulous (even my automatic aversion to beige doesn’t kill it). I also like the little green details on the necklace and bracelet.
In total: the best she’s ever looked apart from the Vivienne Westwood jewelry ads.
And I feel I gotta put my two cents in here on the boob issue. From the look of them, they’re real. And as someone who’s gone from a B to an E, and whose best friend went from a C to an HH with about the same amount of weight gain as CH, it can certainly happen. And I agree, why would she get the type of implants that would make it somehow impossible for LA stylists to outfit properly, and which she has publicly complained about for really hindering her in getting roles or clothes? Heck, if she had implants, she would’ve had them taken out a while back what with all the hassle the boobs give her.
PERFECTION!!! Halleluyah… Praise the Lord!
She is fantastic, and I love that she has a Well Played Cover! Yay, Lucky!!!
She looks great here. At last!
She is so pale in the clown photo shoot that it’s almost impossible to tell where her breasts begin. And if she’s been on the pill — well, I went from a C to a DD. They never went down. Now, 20 lbs later, no kids, I’m an F or G. No implants. It can happen. Sigh.
Oh — but I think all that hair makes her head look strangely tiny!
I care not whether her girls are real or fake, but for some of those who’ve seen older pictures and question the change in size:
When I was 24 (her age in the Playboy shots, apparently), I was a solid 32C, and about 25 lbs thinner than I am now. I’m now a 36D, but have kept my overall shape, which is hourglass. I gain weight very evenly throughout my body. It’s entirely possible to go up that much. My best friend went from an A to VERY FULL C with her weight gain in her late twenties / early thirties. It just depends on how / where you gain and carry your weight.
Okay, enough of that. She’s stunning.
Christina looks amazing!
I’m a 36FF, make a decent salary, and there is no way I could afford to have all my clothing tailored. I do not wear dresses usually because my bust and waist are 2 sizes different. I cannot wear button-down shirts because they will never fit my waist or hips, and the tailoring to make them fit is so dramatic that it ruins the cut of the shirt. I spent my formative years being made to feel ashamed of my body…no one makes clothes for women like me, even now…so the idea that I or any large-busted woman “should have learned” how to dress for them is just silly. Subjective generalizations about how she “should” have gained weight or learned to dress are silly if you ask me – every body is different.
She looks fantastic.
FWIW, I think she is unaltered. My figure is similar-ish to hers and when I gain any weight, it goes straight to the bust. When I’m pregnant or nursing, it starts to look fairly ridiculous, but it’s 100% real.
I dunno. There is something off about the neck and head size. It’s not her fault, I think that there is some photoshop mishap going on. I think her neck has been stretched. Her neck also looks off-center on her shoulders.
Am I crazy? I think there is something very off about this. Her body looks great but I think the photoshopper should be fired for pasting her head on wrong.
God, I’m already a DD!!! That’s it, I’m never going on the pill!
Just love the lines on this dress. Perfect for her. Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but that is purchased hair. I’ve seen many candids of her much shorter hair to know it’s not this long or thick. That said, I would buy those extensions in one nanosecond if I didn’t think it would eff up my hair as they have many a starlet.
Am I the only one unimpressed that they got a dress to fit her for a photo shoot? I mean, how hard is it to take a bunch of clothes pins to pull a dress tight around a hard-to-fit figure?
The dress fits like a glove because they’ve got it all pinned and binder-clipped in the back to get it just the way they want it. I was a model back in the olden days and that’s how they do it. But regardless, she looks great. This is the way she should always dress!
Everything else has been said, so I’ll just say that I love this and leave it at that.
Wanted to chime in on the boob issue:
I was very skinny for a very long time due to walking/running everywhere and playing a lot of sports when my family didn’t regularly have food and when I “finished” growing I was 92 lbs at 5’7″ and I was barely over an A cup, into B territory, not sure about the band size since I only wore generic sports bras at the time.
After eating like a normal person would and getting married I am now in my early 20′s and fluctuate between 130-140 lbs and I’m a 32E UK (US sizing is smaller, easily a 32F in some brands). Needless to say the husband did not complain about the weight gain since despite my incredibly slowed down activity level from what I was doing, I filled out from a waif to an hourglass and he got T&A to go with it.
I’m firmly in the real camp, as never mind her breasts have the correct look whenever they’re constricted or reclined, you can easily see a video of her at an awards show (don’t recall which one, cream colored dress?) and she scuttles up to the podium and it’s all jiggle and wiggle.
Also in the camp of, “I bough this magazine because she was on the cover and got ripped off because there weren’t any others >:( “
Perfection. She is such a beauty and looks incredible here and had a great team of stylists. But, I’m with courtney and zackster, my first thought was: what does the back of that dress look like? She could have a zillion pins making it look perfect from the front.
And I’m going to weigh in my two cents in support (pun intended) of the fact that they look real to me. She obviously gained weight since that swim suit picture. It’s not like she stayed a size four everywhere else and had big boobs tacked on. She is buxom, but it’s in proportion to everything else. And, may I say, that she is one lucky lady to gain weight so beautifully. Curvy and proud….brava, Christina!
Now all she has to do is call a dentist and get those nasty yellow teeth cleaned.
I desperately covet her hair. My cousin has that hair naturally, daayum she is lucky.
JanetP: Yes, thank you, I’m not the only one who finds her head really tiny? Good God, I know her breasts are big, but they are very disproportionate to her head.
1) Gorgeous girl. She’s got curves, fantastic. But the breasts? I think they’re fake too.
2) Why would she get big implants and then complain that she doesn’t get as many clothes? Ummm…Heidi Montag anyone? She has also complained about the exact same thing. It’s called “What was I thinking with that surgery????”
3) That dress is probably pined in the back with all kinds of stylist tools. We all know how that works. It’s also why Big Macs look so much taller and delicious in ads than in real life…
I’m okay with the cover but the head… It’s way too tiny.
Oh and speaking of her fake vs. real breasts… When you gain weight, it shows in your face too. That is a skinny face…
As a 5′ 2′ woman and I weigh about 140-150 pounds (had to do a conversion for the americans) and I am about a size 8/10 US. I am a 10E bra size in Australia which is a 32DDD/E in US sizing. Looking at Christina’s boobs they appear au natural to me. They move right when she moves and I love seeing a woman with an hourglass figure. I have one and trying to dress it is almost near impossible these days.
To the commentator above who said that she doesn’t dress them well, therefore she probably didn’t have them when she was younger, I can tell you that it wasn’t until my mid 30′s that I finally figured out how to dress my shape, up until then I would wear the most unflattering things.
Christina looks gorgeous here! And props to Lucky mag for not photoshopping her to look 30 pounds thinner (I hate when magazines do that).
This dress is ugly. That hair is a disaster recently. She’s not that hot. I don’t get why people watch that show. And your comment button is SO hard to use lately. DEAL WITH IT.