Updated June 11, 2010 with important insights from Greg Wright about the history of Lilith. 

‘Mad Men’s’ Christina Hendricks wears her hourglass figure.‘Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks is on the cover of this week’s New York Magazine Spring 2010 fashion edition.

Hendricks is blessed with an old-fashioned, real-woman hourglass figure, the kind that used to make men swoon and Hollywood directors, too.

The NYMag editorial makes a couple points important to note, knowing that the embrace doesn’t make me popular.

Hendricks lives north of the 15 BMI model we worry may drop dead any day now — the one Lauren, Lagerfeld and most male designers today — gay or straight —  insist we women all want to be, if we would just get off our robust bottoms and start taking beauty seriously.

The voluptuous vixen lives way south of Beth Ditto and Gabourey Sidibe, celebrated as living proof that the BMI of 40 beautiful, too.

Make no mistake, putting Beth Ditto on the cover of LOVE mag in its inaugural edition was an ace move. I’m all for self-love, no matter what size your body.

Technically speakingthough, at 5’2” and 220 lbs Beth Ditto has a BMI of 40.23, making her morbidly obese. Personally, I want to keep all these fab women around for a long time, so I’m hapy to promote Hendricks and her medically-healthy hourglass figure.

Even the medical establishment has new research confirming that hips are good for a woman.

‘Mad Men’s’ Christina Henricks is a threat to our psyches as the santon woman.

Writing about Christina Hendricks in Aug. 2009, NYMag said:

Bad is sexy. And then just very, very bad. The show lures you in with a glittering surface, but just below is a hothouse of homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and a more general and crushing sense of isolation. Joan embodies all of the show’s brazen contradictions, strutting and posing no matter how awful or retrograde the circumstances. And yet, with less screen time than the other main characters, Joan has broken out as the show’s most seductive player. Part of the allure is her retro-bodacious beauty—obviously attractive to men, straight and gay (she’s hot and campy), and oddly empowering to women. “Joan has one of those characters based on strength,” says Mad Men creator Matt Weiner. “Even her roommate says to her, ‘You are so upbeat despite what happens.’ ”

NYMag praises Christina Hendricks as the average woman, the healthy one by medical standards, the one with curves, who is capable of kicking some serious butt. I maintain that Ralph Lauren doesn’t like this Hendricks-looking, hourglass woman because she is … fertile, sexual, a bit of the Meryl Street wanton woman female with a robust libido.