January Jones Does Marie Claire and Talks About Jealous Bitchy Girls
April 8, 2011 in Celebrity Quotes, January Jones by Versus
We’ve already had Today’s Quote via Heidi Klum, but here’s a much spicier one coming from MadMen star January Jones:
On rumors she became a model to prove to “bitches” in high school she’s pretty:
“Where are you getting this shit? It sounds like something I might have said when I was, like, 15. The bitches in high school were bitches because I was pretty.”
… says January in Marie Claire UK.
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i’m thinkin the girls were bitchy cuz you were a bitch?? she’s not real pretty-right?
Woouuw what an ego she has! In fact I did kind of liked her up until now. Not anymore.
I DESPISE it when women assume other women are bitchy to them because they’re jealous. No, women are bitchy towards bitchy women. period. Think about the most popular girls in high school – they were pretty AND had good social skills (for the most part). And, I guarantee that each and everyone of us posting on this board has at least one friend who is drop dead gorgeous and we are still able to be friends with her because she is a nice person.
ya i know! i have a friend whos really beautiful like seriously she could be a celebrity easily, even tho shes like only 4’11 lol shes tiny but she gets alot of attention but im not jealous cuz shes like my sister,
It’s not always true that bitchy girls are bitchy towards other bitchy girls. A lot of girls are bitches to me, but I am far from a bitch. I do not think it’s because I am beautiful and that’s why they are bitches. But bitches definitely attack nice people too, not just bitchy ones. I think bitches definitely are jealous. Not just for looks, but for anything. I am not saying girls are bitchy to me because they are jealous, but I have a wonderful life, so they just may be jealous of SOMETHING in my life.
I hate how women are so catty towards each other. Instead of being jealous of women for their good looks, be happy for them! If us girls stuck together and worked together instead of against each other, we would be so much better off!!
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agree with this – bitches are just bitches, full stop XD and usually I think it stems from insecurity they want to make others feel bad because inside they feel bad too. There are beautiful bitches and there are bitches who look like dog poop – to put it all down to looks is not really true to reality.
Agree with everything… Haven’t met anyone i would call a bitch but most girls can be bitchy from time to time, and in my experience it always comes from insecurity. I myself am nice to people, but sometimes u get that bitchy feeling inside of u, and a second later i always know it’s because i’m insecure of something in that moment, and stop acting on it
But I´m sure you can find girls who hates the pretty girls with no reasons too! I think more girls hate the pretty ones than the not so pretty ones….
I could be wrong but I think her last sentence about girls being bitchy because she was pretty is what she WOULD have said at the age of 15 and not what she actually thinks.
I think you are right Nikeon, otherwise she contradicted herself completely!
That’s how I read it too. Although a bitchy girl may choose to read it differently LOL!!
I think she is saying it’s BS that the only reason she became a model was to prove the bitchy girls in HS wrong, but that IT is true that other girls were bitchy to her because she is so pretty.
i was kind of wondering if they had mixed that up, cause otherwise it made no sense
i agree with mia that the sentence about what she would have done at 15 is try to be a model to PROVE she was pretty… what she actually thought of the bitches in high school were that they were bitchy to her because she is pretty. kind of in retrospect she thinks that its cuz she is pretty, but at the time she MAY felt she needed to prove herself to them by becoming a pretty model…thats how i read it
I also understood her comment that way, Nkeon.
Ughha she said it in a GQ interview so there’s no need to snap. And although I agree that not every woman who is a complete bitch to another woman is jealous alot of them do it to boost up their self esteem or because they haven’t met that right person to put them in their place. The notion that every popular girl is mean is a fallacy of an argument. Some people especially girls just love to treat other like sh*t for no reason. And it doesn’t help that most of there reality shows psychologically condition us to think it’s okay (even though you shouldn’t be using that as a reason)
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I think some girls are bitchy to other girls because they jealous, but judging from the way January talks, I think its her.
I want to be bitchy now to her too, and I never thought she attractive.
Glad you are a dime a dozen girl! You definitely are a same face Barbie, specially with those thoughts!! Girls in school were jealous and mean, but you were probably a bitch from the beginning, making them hate on you more. No one likes a “pretty” girl who is full of themselves acting like her sh#t don’t stink. I for one am not jealous of her or would ever want to look like her. Have some humble pie January.
Rawr! No need to get rude, Miss Jones. I think she’s really pretty but she has one of the worst attitudes in Hollywood and always has. Looks won’t last forever, sweetpea~
Scientifically speaking, her facial proportions are quite good, thus she’s probably deemed attractive by consensus. I strongly dislike when people pins someone’s bad behaviour towards them on jealousy, but in many cases that is exactly the reason.
There is “Mean girls” popular and there’s “everybody likes you” popular, and albeit it certainly helps, none of them are required to be attractive, so if you’re not in the first group and you’re attractive and seen as a threat, then absolutely, you most likely will be bashed. By choice of words and actions, it’s quite easy to distinct “rational dislike” from “irrational dislike”. I do believe her when she catogorize the girls from high school as the latter.
Just because something factual is in your favor, it does not mean that you’re arrogant for acknowledging this. And that’s a fact.
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Eh her face is meh, nothing striking or unique. Very vanilla
I don’t find her pretty, seriously.
wow I know she plays a bitch on mad men but she sounds like a bitch when not playing that role. She is sometimes pretty, other times not, shes a plain jane to me idk why
lol.. funny answer by the actress. I guess she has a lot of confidence. But in general, she is a plain jane next to other celebrities, and actresses. I mean she’s skinny white girl with blonde hair and light eyes. I don’t think that makes her any more special than the hundreds of blondes who look like like her.
Agreed.I never read any posts related to her simply because she’s a dime a dozen.the only thing that led me here was the quote itself-it comes across as kinda shallow:/ even if she didn’t mean it that way,I still wouldn’t have said or for the possible ways it could have been misconstrued.
Yawn…this girl seriously puts me to sleep every time with her bland looks and equally boring and snobby personality. Get over yourself, January Jones.
Humility goes a longggg way, especially for celebrities.
Honestly, I don’t find her words too bitchy and self-conceited. Never heard of her before but I know a lot of girls with the same attitude though they are ugly as hell. January looks pretty really, so it’s not like what she says is wrong.
Why does society make us think that we have to go around saying that we’re ugly? I have ugly days where I feel and look like shit, but I have days where i know i look good and i’m then called vein for thinking that? NO i’m just not delusional to the fact that i have a pretty face (occasionally). WHY SHOULD WE FEEL WE HAVE TO HATE THE WAY WE LOOK? and when we ARE finally happy with our appearance we’re bitched at for being vein!
I’m gonna go ahead now and say I think i’m attractive. I go to the gym, I get a lot of attention and i’ve been told im pretty all whilst growing up. WHY should i say to the world that i think im ugly?!
Granted, this girl isn’t putting it in the best words but she IS pretty and why should she think any different?
who says you have to think of yourself as ugly? I just think it does her (or anyone) a disservice to assume that people are bitchy to them because they are jealous of their looks. If you look at child development literature you’ll find that attractive girls are most often rated as the most well-liked and socially-competent in their school, so there is no empirical support for her claims. If people are bitchy towards her and she attributes it to her good looks she is only going to create more hostility. The healthy approach is to think of yourself as attractive, and if you find that people are bitchy towards you to examine your own behavior and figure out what the REAL reason is that people arne’t nice to you or don’t like you.
She looks a little bit like Grace Kelly, especially in Mad Men with the dresses and all
yep! the producer likes that look in her.
She was very pretty indeed: http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/general/photos/0,,20290121_20401717_20810716,00.html
Not very ‘average’ in my book. But still, what a strange thing to say out loud.
WOW dirty mouth. full of yourself much, january? all she has going for her is a pretty face, because from watching 3 seasons of Mad Men, its pretty clear that she cant act her way out of a paper bag. over rated and arrogant. NEXT
I don’t really know who she is just seen her on celebrity pics, she is not really big in Aus.
I don’t think she is that stunning. She reminds me of Patricia Arquette, but I find Patricia much more attractive.
For some reason i can not fathom, my friends have always been pretty and my best friends are prettier than me. Right now I have two beautiful best friends with good personalities. I never get as much attention as them from guys and everyone wants to be friends with them (they are not the most popular girls in school but are within our social group). Of course I’ve been jealous but that would never be a reason to be a bitch to them. January sounds very vain. She says that sounds like something she would of said when she was 15, but they whole “Where are you getting this shit? It sounds like something I might have said when I was, like, 15. The bitches in high school were bitches because I was pretty.”, sounds exactly what an egocentric teenage girl at my school would say. Girls are bitches for so many different reasons and I know so many girls that are bitchy to not so pretty girls because of that.
i really think she was just mocking the idea, kind of reflecting that it is something she herself might have said/thought when she was actually 15, not something that she believed throughout her adult life.
i’m a huge fan of mad men and january jones. i’ve seen and read many interviews with her and i find it hard to believe she said this exact quote. i’m guessing she was being sarcastic, or its a miss quote
i normally dont bother to comment on a post when i dont like the celeb, but she is hands down, the most boring, bland, forgetable actress in hollywood. and yet she always looks so pleased with herself. she is pretty but nothing more special than you would see in a mall. coupled with her lack of talent (and smug personality), youve got yourself a flash in the pan. can her fifteen minutes be up now?
she’s not THAT pretty
anyone else think she looks a little like tippi hedren? but yeah i could see her being a bitch more likely lol..
well, i find her really, really, really pretty but in this site i discover how objective beauty is! in my opinion she’s one of the most beautiful and attractive women in Hollywood, maybe because i’m a huge fan of mad men! BUT i like more the beautiful women, who they don’t really know how beautiful they are or most important they DON’T say it!
Refreshing, someone with an ego.
she’s beautiful… i love the outfits on both pictures…
Alot of the comments in here are bitchy. Talking about girls need to stick together, but all you guys do is attack a girl when shes got selconfidence or is a little edgy. Im not bothered by her comment, and i dont get why people overreact and start calling her a bitch. She strike me as a fun fearless person, cudos to her.
Plus I think all of us have a little bitch inside of us, amongst other traits we have, and theres the right time and place for that bitch to step up. You cant always be sweet and sugarcoated. But i have to say, theres a difference between the loose crazy bitch (jumping around, yelling, screaming, picking fights)and the skilled bitch (knows her rights and how to be bitchy enough just to get whats rightfully hers without acting like a clown; respect, appreciation, favours, u name it).
If girls (everyone actually) want to get along better, they need to stop compete with eachother and realise we are all human, and that looks, social statuses and technical toys are just “accessories” of life. Its nice having nice toys, but its nicer to be nice
she sounds like she was just annoyed with the question. “where are you getting this shit”. haha love that she said that.
and that is how girls sometimes treat really pretty girls who don’t realize it or have low self-esteem. one of my best friends is beautiful and she never had bfs because she was always being picked on by the popular girls (who weren’t even that cute) they were def. jealous of her. it was pretty messed up. girls can be evil. especially in high school.
Was she repeating the question in a sarcastic fashion? Like: “What are you talking about? The bitches in high school were bitches because I was pretty? C’mon, that’s nonsense? ” Something like that…..just wondering.
“The bitches were bitches…”sounds VERY bitchy too me.I don t see any sarcasm in it.And a lot of people are actually pretty vulnerable when you bring upt their high school past:D
So if the bitches were bitchy towards her because she was pretty she either didn t get it at that time,or she still doesn t AKA stupid or she became a “How you like me now bitch” , meaning people recognze her looks and no former schoolmate of her seems to be a celeb so she “won”.In her mind.
I m sorry ,but to me she looks like most slim blondes in Hollywood.I m a fan of Mad Men but girl needs to take some acting lessons.
ewwww she is not attractive at all so the bitches in high school were right.
I suppose you are one of those, too. Probably still in high-school. Ewww? Really, you are “ewwwwing” January Jones?
LOL lots of comments on how “she’s not that pretty”.
I think we are bitchy not when others are more beautiful or smarter than us but when they know that they are like that and are confident.
When I read her quote I thought “what a bitch” lol just because she’s beautiful and she knows it. That’s just how most women are. We get insecure, but I guess that’s fine. I laugh at myself when i’m being that way. Momentaneous bitchness is kinda funny, but perpetuating it is what actually is very wrong for others and for ourselves-
But then reading some comments I actually agree that people are misunderstanding the quote and that she actually is saying that the thing about being pretty was something she would have said at 15.
She just seems very blunt and unwilling to perhaps rephrase things so no feathers get ruffled.
I don’t have a problem with what she said. It’s not that impossible that maybe people gave her a hard time because they envisioned her as a stuck up princess who things came easy to.
I kind of like that she’s blunt to the point of making people actively dislike her. She probably hangs around a group of friends that are used to her personality and not inclined to be around people she has be ‘pleasant’ with.
Didn’t Jessica Biel also say something similar about herself once? saying she was “too pretty” or something like that?
She looks a little shemale to me. I could understand Christy Turlington saying something like that she’s unbearably beautiful IMO, this chick not even a little bit. Just because somebody has blonde hair and blue eyes, doesn’t make them beautiful. She’s pretty rough looking and that’s with the hours of hair and makeup. Not to mention the photoshop.
Humility goes a long way…and she obviously has no idea what that means. So what if she’s pretty? There are LOTS of very pretty girls in the world. I’m pretty sure that’s why so many of them are bitches: too much competition.
why should someone act stuck up over something they had no hand in. no one has the option to choose what they look like,
i treat really attractive and less attractive people the same way.
that being said, im not jealous of a pretty person being pretty because that has nothing to do with me.
people need to learn to deal with the cards they have been given. it hurts me to see people waste so much time trying to be something they are not naturally and forgetting to savor the day. sigh
She is beautiful and to some degree certin women are more bitchy to girls they are jelous of but it depends on the type of girl. My friend was at one point being a massive bitch to me and always putting me down and picking at my looks. This was like an esteem killer as I go through stages where I find myself riduclosely repulsive and ugly (however I am bipolar so when I am low my esteem is low). But she eventually admitted it was through being jelous why she was being a bitch and to be fair she does have a school girl mentality however she herself if beautiful which dosnt make any sense. It all depends on how the person reacts I would be jelous from a far but know pleanty of other girls who would put someone down and others who wouldnt be bothered by it at all. But apart from getting on a tangent only certin women are like than not every woman.
I think almost every woman has a friend like that at some point in their lives, it’s just unfortunate that some girls feel the need to attack those they are jealous of. I am jealous of plenty of people, but it mostly comes off as admiration and a little bit of awe rather than bitchiness in my case – or at least I like to think that.
I actually can’t stand her. I used to like her but some of her other quotes came off as really vapid too so any original liking I felt towards her has dissipated. And in my opinion she isn’t all that pretty either.
She seems like the conceited bitch to me, tbh. And, yes, she’s pretty, but she’s not much prettier then a lot of girls I knew in high school. Nothing special; typical blonde haired girl.
I’ll probably get bashed for this. But yeah I agree girls can be bitchy towards good looking girls. HOWEVER girls that are like that can often be pretty themselves…just really low in self esteem. There are also really pretty girls who have lots of friends who are good friends and not bitchy. I really don’t think it was January’s looks that made other girls bitchy toward her. It was probably her attitude! I actually dont find her pretty. She is not ugly by any means but in no way does she stand out to me. Celebrity or not. sorry.
It’s funny. People on this site very often accuse people of jealousy for saying they don’t like the way someone looks. Then condemn someone for doing it outright instead of behind an anonymous internet comment.
January is beautiful, no doubt, but she maybe should have been more clear. She called the rumors of her motive for becoming a model to prove to bitchy girls she was pretty “s***”! Like it’s something she would have said as an immature highschool girl who would have been saying, “Oh, you’re all so mean to me because I’m pretty, and you say I’m not pretty, but I am because, look! I can be a model!” She’s pointing out how ridiculous the comment would be. Give her a break!
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I think she’s very beautiful in the most classical way – probably exactly why she’s cast as Don Draper’s wife in Mad Men. I don’t get why people say “she’s not that pretty” yet rave about people like Blake Lively or Megan Fox. Ah well, different opinions.
Not sure about that comment of hers. I do believe girls were mean to her because she was beautiful, but probably mostly because she didn’t fit in or act like they wanted her to. At least that’s what happened to me!