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"January Jones has revealed that no-one used to take her seriously as an actress. The 33-year-old, who is best known as housewife Betty Draper in TV drama Mad Men, said that she has always been up against people who never expected her to succeed in her chosen career. Jones told The Sun: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s hard to find material that gives you the chance to challenge people&amp;#039;s expectations. I&amp;#039;ve had to fight blonde stereotypes and doubt my entire career until Matthew [Vaughn] gave me a role [in the next X-Men movie that] I could make my own.  &amp;quot;A lot of times on a film set I feel I&amp;#039;m acting even after they say &amp;#039;cut&amp;#039;. A lot of that comes from insecurity and of having to deal with people doubting my talent because I look a certain way.  &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;ve got a lot of confidence from doing Mad Men. The more confident I get, the more I&amp;#039;m allowing myself to be heard, giving the director more input on how I think my character should evolve. &amp;quot;I love being at a point where you start seeing the possibilities unfold for you. I just hope I can also meet a great man who&amp;#039;s going to make me feel that my life isn&amp;#039;t just about the work.&amp;quot; She said that she would love to find an &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; man but admitted that it is &amp;quot;hard to find romance&amp;quot; because she is &amp;quot;pretty idealistic when it comes to love&amp;quot;. Jones also said that she has never wanted to get work off the back of her good looks because she &amp;quot;grew up in the kind of family where the important thing was to work hard and accomplish something&amp;quot;. The star recently revealed that she is pregnant with her first child, despite being single since her split from Jason Sudeikis earlier this year. Sudeikis has refused to comment on reports that he could be the child&amp;#039;s father. &amp;gt; Read our latest showbiz news "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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