'I freaked my husband out by saying I wanted babies when we first met': Christina Hendricks admits she came on strong when dating Geoffrey Arend



She's one of the most desirable women in the world after leaping to fame as Joan in Mad Men.

But actress Christina Hendricks admitted her husband Geoffrey Arend was a bit 'freaked out' by her when they first started dating.

Clearly convinced she had met 'the one'. the 36-year-old told the 500 Days Of Summer actor she wanted a family with him soon after meeting.



Va-va-va-voom: Christina Hendricks said her husband made her want to have a family in the very early days of their courtship

Hendricks and Arend met in 2007 when they were introduced by her Mad Men co-star Vincent Kartheiser and she found herself immediately drawn to him.

She recalls to the March issue of the UK edition of Cosmopolitan: ' Geoffrey walked in and I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’ He had amazing hair and was all dishevelled - he was running late and everyone was waiting for him. He just came in with this very high energy.

' He was just charming, funny and very magnetic. I got his number that night under the pretence of, "We could just be friends." And of course I immediately went home and Googled him.'

Sex bomb: Hendricks strikes a series of poses in a tight-fitting leather dressg

The full interview appears in the March issue of Cosmopolitan, on sale Thursday 2nd February

After a few weeks of the pair meeting as part of a group, they finally had a date, and then it was Hendricks who said the L word first.

She said: ' I cracked it out in such a big way. I was like, "You make me want to have a family." I freaked him out a bit...Thank God I didn’t spook him enough to make him leave.'

Fortunately he didn't leave the pair ended up marrying in New York in 2009.

Hendricks admits her husband finds her whole pin-up image incredibly funny.

She explains: ' It’s incredibly flattering and surprising, and I didn’t think for a second when I started Mad Men that people would talk about me as being sexy or a pin up.

'My husband has a good laugh about it, of course.'



And when asked to define sexy, she adds: ' Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can’t keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.



'Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.'

The full interview appears in the March issue of Cosmopolitan, on sale Thursday 2nd February.