January Jones gave birth on Tuesday to a healthy baby boy. She named her son Xander Dane Jones. Xander because… she got knocked up while doing X-Men: First Class, so she thought she’d give her baby an X-name? If she’d gotten pregnant by someone on the set of Mad Men, she’d probably have named the kid Maddox or Madison or MadMenlina. So let’s get through the basics first:
And baby makes two.
Mad Men star January Jones welcomed her first child on Tuesday, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.
Son Xander Dane Jones and the new mom are “doing great,” the rep says.
Jones, 33, chose to keep the sex of her baby under wraps, remarking “it’s going to be a surprise for me” during a June interview.
The actress announced the pregnancy in April. A source told PEOPLE at the time, “She’s really looking forward to this new chapter in her life as a single mom.”
[From People]
Congrats to January and little Xander, and may they stay happy and healthy for a long time. January was spotted and photographed on a nearly daily basis, mostly coming in and going out of prenatal yoga, so I bet the birth was probably pretty easy for her.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
Well, congrats to her and her little X-man.
@ Kaiser:
I (allegedly) agree with everything you said (allegedly).
Best of luck to Xander
Isn’t there Xander a character in X-Men somewhere?
Oh, and congrats and stuff.
cute name but hopefully he doesn’t end up a self entitled brat because his mama thinks she’s some huge star when she’s not at her age Vanessa Redgrave had been nominated for 3 best actress Oscars though she she didn’t win until 7 years later for best supporting actress and had 3 children and sadly a miscarriage right her three children were Natasha Richardson born 5/11/1963 Joely Richardson born 1/9/1965 & Carlo Nero born 9/16/1969 granted she didn’t Marry Carlo’s dad Franco until 37 years later because of a Painful divorce from Natasha and Joely’s father oscar winning director/producer Tony Richardson
Congrats. The name is pretty cool actually.
What a dumb name..
Wouldn’t it be funny if she used a sperm donor? It seems like the January thing to do: create a firestorm over her boring ass.
Vanessa Redgrave? Where’d that come from?
I’m guessing she got paid — she apparently bought a house in Malibu this summer. But, uh, it was announced that Matthew is coming back for another X movie, which means she is as well, so…awkward?
congrats ! i hope the best for every one
i still think she used a sperm donnor
I can’t imagine why you would think the birth was easy for her. She’s a twig and childbirth is hard whether it’s natural or via c-section. Prenatal Yoga is great, but it doesn’t make things “easy”.
Congrats to her…hopefully the birth of her child will humble her and make her a better person.
JJ feeling like “now is the right time” and getting some medical/scientific help seems plausible. As does her doing eenie-meenie-mynie-moe to decide which of the two acting jobs she would use as inspiration in naming her child. I honestly didn’t know of this woman until her pregnancy so that’s just a thought.
She does look a LOT like Claudia though…..how did MV manage to snatch HER up!
@ Original Bellaluna:
Well, there’s Charles Xavier. I can’t remember any character named Xander though…there are so many characters in X-Men comics/movies anyway.
I can’t get over how little she was through her entire pregnancy!
Congrats to her.
All I can do is imagine young Xander Googling himself in ten years and discovering what a whore his mother made herself out to be with this “Who’s The Baby Daddy?” nonsense. I feel bad for the kid.
Maybe she’s a Buffy fan?
Does anyone think Bobby Flay is the father?
OMG, Courtney, PLEASE STOP!!! Start your own gossip website if you feel the need to prove your trivia knowledge!
Lol @ BW ! Buffy fan. Seriously? Lol. Hahah. Good guess tho ! Maybe she is 🙂
I applaud January for telling the paps and gossips to stick it by not saying a word.
I don’t care if she’s paid off. It’s just so darn refreshing to read of a starlet keeping her private life private.
Yoga has nothing to do with whether your birth is easy.
Is it just me, or did that pregnancy go FAST?
Second, LL!
I’ve known some Xanders – short for Alexander, of course. I’ve been kind of into this story… wonder if we’ll ever find out Papa’s identity?
Is the middle name a hint as to paternity? Could Eric Dane have impregnated her in a drunken orgy with his wife? What about Dane Cook? I’m going with the first, though…
@BW – excellent! I was thinking the same thing!
Courtney, get your comma key fixed on your keyboard! Just teasing.
Regarding January Jones, I need to believe that she didn’t name the kid Xander because of X Men, because that is just so dopey.
I like Courtney’s comments 🙂
Yes. super fast! It seems like poor Emily Dechanel and Alyssa Milano were/are pregnant forever. Myself included! lol
I’m sorry but…with a mama like that and that effing name…that kid is born to be an idiot.
Congrats to the new mama.
I’m guessing something boring like a sperm donor, too. Then all the gossip started flying and she just went with it. And why would she deny all the rumors? It helped her visibility, big time. A *possible lovechild* is certainly a more positive way to get attention than a sex tape.
Congrats too, but i’m thinking this photoshopping is ridiculous; compare jj in that second pic to her photos in the Versace ads she’s been doing – they are two different females. As many on this site have said, if this is the route we’re going, lets just CGI everything and remove humans from the equation.
@ BW YES!!!!! It was shortly after that car accident where she called Bobby to come help her that the pregnancy was announced. Personally I do not get why people say she is so stunning, I find her simply ordinary. @ BOO I agree wholeheartedly, such a shame.
January Jones couldn’t get close to Claudia in looks on her best day. I have never cheated on anyone, but if I ever do it I am going to cheat up not down.Assuming M. Vaughn did cheat with January,how do you go from Claudia to January?
I agree: Betcha Eric Dane is the baby daddy. That would explain a lot about his relationship.
It’s striking that after the rumors came out about Jones and Vaugn, Claudia Schiffer started up her modelling career again. She hadn’t been around for years, and now she’s on magazine covers and in major ad campaigns again. Is it that she got attention again, or felt the need to go to work?
Btw, can we talk about how far out of his looks league Vaughn is batting with Schiffer alone, let alone Jones (allegedly) as well. He is such a balding schmo.
What not Xavier! Laaaame…LOL!! No I like Xander it’s cool!
Errrr – here’s another “almost-too-obvious-to-believe” baby-daddy theory:
http://www.thesuperficial.com/january-jones-father-of-baby-xander-berkeley-09-2011
I guess she worked with actor Xander Berkeley (of 24, previously) around the same time…..? Yep, probably too obvious.
sequined pajamas re your claudia reference; back in the 80s/90s one of the supermodels – the fashion industry screwed itself by going with waifs starting in the late 90s and anne wintour ruined vogue adding insult to injury by giving covers to her hollywood friends turning vogue into VarietyEast. Claudia now, and certainly back in the day, blows JJ away – remember the old Guess ads, now they have some amber heard who is she? No Claudia that’s for sure.
Finally!
I like the name a lot, it’s unusual and cool!
I guess we’ll be able to tell who the daddy is once the kid gets older…that is if he doesn’t look like his mama.
Kind of like Xavier.
If Vaughan got January pregnant, doesn’t this mean that it was after Claudia gave birth to their latest child or was it during Claudia’s pregnancy?
anne_000 After. She had Cosima in May 2010 and January would have gotten pregnant sometime in December.
I think it’s really strange that she named her son after a co-star. Either he’s the dad or he’s a close friend. Or she could have just liked the name I suppose. My money is still on MV since he made the largest stink about NOT being the dad.
I love the name Xander! It’s my son Alexander’s nickname. Hubby loves the Vin Diesel movies lol!
When he was born, we said he’s either going to look like an Alex or a Xander. He came out looking like a little rock star – so Xander it was 🙂
I know a couple of other lil’ Xanders as well.
I still believe the baby daddy is Jack Nicholson. If Jack bought her that house in Malibu, then it’s the same m.o. he had with his Five Easy Pieces co-star who also gave birth to Jack’s secret son and got a house out of the deal (in addition to whatever else he gave her). We know Jack only dates women in their early thirties now, too.
I got a hunch the dude is a behind-the-scenes lad, if it is at all someone from the X-Men crowd. Say that the dad is not Matt Vaughn (seems to be a minority opinion, heh): it’d makes her look even worse to let him eat shit like that from his wife (and the world) while she keeps silent. Which totally seems her style. She didn’t win that queen bee reputation for nowt!
I actually wondered about this just this morning.
The name bugs me. All the names seperately are fine but together they have no flow.
As for her labor being easy, I think it’s just luck. My first labor got a lot easier when I got the epidural.
And courtney’s comments amuse me. Except for when she tells someone to shut up or calls someone a name. But otherwise it’s like 6 degrees of seperation. Well…more like 1 or 2 degrees.
As long as it’s not Fassbender’s baby, I don’t care.
LOL @Isa, yes. I’ve said it before, it’s either “6 degrees of Vanessa Redgrave” or “6 degrees of Joanne Woodward.”
also, I have to disagree with those of you who said exercise doesn’t make labor easier. I labored for only 7 hours total (including pushing) with an OP baby (sunny-side up). 90% of babies in that position end up being delivered by C-section. My doctor credited my exercise routine. According to him, my stamina and abdominal strength allowed my to avoid c-section. According to my OB exercise can decrease time in labor. This time around I only labored for 5 hours total.
morticians- I knew a physical trainer that had a horribly long labor. Then again, she was induced and that it rough. I was induced with my first. It was bad until I got the epidural. So maybe it isn’t just luck. I was so excited about giving birth a second time, I was already dilated to a three! During my second trimester I was walking 6 to 9 miles a week, but the pelvic pain and extreme heat made me stop. I ended up needing a c-section because he was breech. 🙁 I was kind of glad once I saw him, because his shoulders and head were soooo huge. He was 9 lbs 6 ounces and built like a linebacker!
Also, do you have to have a c-section when they’re sunny side up? I’ve never heard that. Just that it often causes you to be in major pain and have back labor.
Thank you for having a decent title to this article. Other sites are referring to her child in more derogatory terms. I wish both of them the best.
My mom had my sister in 6 hours. Then, me in 2, after inducing. No epidurals. I really hope I’m that blessed.
Xander doesn’t strike me as an odd name. Its just Alexander shortened to one of the nicknames, only.
But I did watch a lot of Buffy so I’m used to it.
@Isa, wow! That’s a big baby and, just think, if you have any more they’ll probably be bigger! Mine were 7lbs 1 oz and 7lbs 7 oz. OP (or sunny side up) babies are almost always delivered by c-section because it’s especially difficult to get the occipital bone over that part of the pelvis that’s meant to accomodate the frontal bone (or forehead). According to my OB and an article I read about OP babies, 90% are delivered via c-section. That’s a pretty huge number considering the rate of c-section in the US is 32%
In any case, even a personal trainer or someone equally as fit can’t avoid c-section if the baby is breech or the baby is in distress. I was merely saying that exercise is supposed to help shorten time in labor (if all other conditions are close to ideal).
Funny about the epidural, I’ve heard plenty of medical professionals suggest that it slows labor. However, you and a friend both said it helped move labor along.I think it definitely helps relax you, which may help with dialation. Our bodies are funny things and what works for most people
may not work for all. Sorry for the rambling! Best of luck with your new little boy and his big sister. Now, off to celebrate my big guy’s birthday. He’s 3 years old today!
I don’t understand why everyone is so enamoured of the age of supermodels, what did they ever do but glorify drug use and eating disorders? And for what? To promote something you can’t, can’t afford and could wear for all of the ‘letting out’ and grocery stores, garbage disposal, subway trips, winter nights in the snow or dish adventures we encounter. Any mutt in the street can put on clothes, I don’t see what’s so holy about when a bunch of mean old coke whores did 20 years ago. No virtue there. Belief in physiognomy rules, this is why we’re practically giving Schiffer and those of her era the Nobel Peace Prize in Walking and Looking at Cameras.
I don’t think she’d be so obvious as to name the kid after his father if the dad is a 60ish married guy. No way. But, she probably thought her former co-star’s name is cool and did it in honor of him.
And if Dane Cook is the father, she ought to seriously reconsider her taste in men. Yuck!
@morticians: I had two OP babies with NVD – but then I had midwives and NOT OBs – that’s the secret of c-section avoidance!!!!
Midwives are more skilled at delivery – OB’s will take the “protect my ass” method every time – it’s why the US has one of the highest CS rates in the world!!!
Oh no, the epidural didn’t shorten my 16 hour labor. Just took away the pain so I could sleep through it. I think I was asleep for almost all of my labor except for 2 hours total. I was hoping for a shorter, easier labor with my son. He probably wasn’t supposed to be that big. After he came out they said his original due date was correct and that he was only 37 weeks. He spent 9 days in the NICU and we were driving the two hours everyday to see him. They said I probably had gestational diabetes that flew under the radar.
If I have another baby I’m gonna be on a strict diet and exercise as much as possible!
Happy birthday to your big boy!!!
I’m also a huge Buffy fan, and Xander doesn’t sound odd to me either. It’s just a nickname of Alexander. Like how girls are named “Tori” instead of “Victoria.”
I like the name. Sounds sort of space age.
Mama besser you exaggerate; first, not all models are/were anoerexic, curvaceous cindy crawford, yasmeen ghauri,nikki taylor, etc. models from that era are liked because they had curves and looked like real women, unlike today’s; second, hundreds of fashion shows from that era are all over youtube, and many of the clothes are wearable today, yes, versace is impractical but not everything;
No one’s glorifying them, just saying fashion was better then, that’s all;
The same thing could be said about most of today’s actors, actresses, pop stars – why are we enamoured to people that have mediocre talent at best, blow most of their money, and are mostly entitled egotists. I’d rather see claudia in a versace ad than jj; jj should work on her acting and maybe her personality; have you seen her on talk shows – not a whole lot going on and rather boring.
It may be that the main thrust of my argument got lost, in truth, they’re are for me just an admittedly beautiful means to an end. My view may be narrow, but when I see great paintings I don’t care who mixed the paint. Versace gets the credit, but the models get the glory, I’ve never truly understood this because necessary as they are to displaying the pieces for the audiences, I’m still–and I’ll concede that maybe it is just personal ignorance of even prejudice– having trouble understanding what is so lionized about the era of the supermodel. I can separate out the bile felt towards Wintour’s reign of gossipy Hollywood irrelevance, and to that end I would ask you personally (since you seem to know something about these things) some questions: what does the professional model offer as an antidote to the cherchez la blonde malaise about which I so frequently hear? Is it just because the publication has strayed from its roots, or is there something intrinsically better about a model on the cover rather than some other recognisable and beautiful women? Grace Coddington is a name that comes up a lot, about how she should be given the opportunity to ‘fix’ Vogue. What would that do, what would one want that to do? Unless the new editrix browbeat Talley off of Anna’s teat and embarked upon a 20 issue long salute to the music of Jets, I’m not sure as to what I’m supposed to expect. To my baffled eyes, I see variations on a theme (swap WASP) and whatever occupation title follows the cover photo means precious little when there’s such a sameness to the procedings. How many actresses began as models, anyway and shouldn’t posing be old hat in that case? But other than fit some very exacting requirements, which DO change and change back, absolutely, and having that ‘it’ factor (yes, also exceedingly rare, what’s so essential? You’re a match seems like something you’d say right before a transplant but if applied to a dress size, she who fits it is given divine status: but for what, I can’t be sure.
As for interviews go, I’d be about as interested in listening to JJ as I would CS, and I don’t imagine either of them have anything to say to me or a decent chance to sartorially tease me out of refills and into profits for their employers…unless someone asked CS what the hell did she let happen to her teeth, that might (surely wouldn’t) be interesting.
Could James Marsden be the father of the kid? He was in X-men (hence the blind item) and just split with his wife. Timing works if he was awaiting a DNA test after the kid was born before admitted to the wife that he cheated and fathered the kid. Was he the the most recent Xmen film or one of the earlier ones?
From people.com
James Marsden’s Wife Files for Divorce
Friday September 30, 2011 09:00 PM EDT
After more than a decade of marriage, James Marsden’s wife Lisa Linde has filed for divorce.
Citing irreconcilable differences in court documents filed one week ago, Linde is seeking spousal support and joint legal and physical custody of the couple’s two young children Jack and Mary.
“It’s always been about being together and keeping the family together,” the X-Men and 27 Dresses star, 38, told PEOPLE in 2008 of his then-happy marriage.
“When I’m not working, I want to be home, and that’s all I want to do.”
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