Why does peggy get fat in mad men

Mad Men Wiki Affiliates. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Elisabeth Moss. View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. When we first started doing it, I was very late in my pregnancy. Then we did it right after I gave birth. Being pregnant in that and having to nurse … it was so uncomfortable. I think one of my earliest call times for hair and makeup was a. Then I had to sit there for six hours. But when Matt called to tell me the idea for that storyline, I just loved it.

I thought it would be so shocking to the audience. By the second season, I think we got it down to four hours. We never went back to pre-heavy Betty. I stopped wearing prosthetics, but I always wore some padding for the rest of the show. Every year we got together for a reunion party to kick off the season. We jump in the van and shoot over to the set, the van door opens and the first person I see is a very large African-American L. How you doing? I wish that they had shot the other side first or simultaneously because there were extras and all our people watching as I belt through the first version of this song.

There was a sea of mouths hanging open. Nothing is off-the-cuff over there. For that episode, I got a call a month before saying that they wanted me to go take Charleston lessons with Vincent. Every episode of every season was just kind of episode-to-episode for me. Of course we learned very specific choreography — and then when we shot the scene at midnight or something, we kind of had to change the choreography all around because of the orientation of the dance floor and the cameras.

It was such a gift, that episode. It was so beautifully written and it came at a really great time in the series, definitely a turning point for me as far as my place in the show. What did critics think? Some felt that Betty's cancer scare and weight-related insecurities made the typically chilly character instantly more relatable.

The arc is particularly poignant considering Betty's character history, says Aly Semigran at Hollywood. She's a former model whom we've seen smoke her way abstemiously through family dinners, and who's criticized her young daughter's weight. This was Betty as we've never seen her: "Not just Fat Betty. How did other critics react? With anger. With this regrettable plot, Mad Men "is walking a thin line between showing us an unlikable woman victimized by a sexist society and dramaturgically beating the crap out of her.

The weight-gain plot seems unnecessarily cruel, and there's "something fairly sadistic about her cartoonish make-up. It just seems lazy. Is January Jones really that fat? While the actress, who was pregnant with her new son at the time, had put on weight, she wore a fatsuit and prosthetic facial and neck appliances to make her appear fatter than she was.

Critics were unimpressed by the execution: My first thought was, "Good lord, is she wearing the same sort of prosthetic they used on Eddie Murphy in Norbit?