<p>She’s made a name for herself playing miserable stay-at-home wife and mother Betty Draper on the hit show <em>Mad Men</em>, but actress January Jones couldn’t be more different from her alter ego. A single mother by choice, Jones credits going back to work when her son, Xander, was six weeks old with helping her adjust to parenthood: “I didn’t lose myself into ‘baby-world,’” she told <em>The Daily Mail</em>. Of course, being able to bring him on set helped. “They made it baby-friendly for me,” she explained to <em>Us Weekly</em>. Famously private, Jones has never publicly identified her son’s father, telling the <em>New York Times</em>, “Women should have lots of secrets. Otherwise, what would we write in our memoirs?” Speaking of her life as a <a href="https://esme.com/voices/perspectives/whats-a-solo-mom" target="_blank" class="wordlink">Solo Mom</a>, Jones sounds remarkably centered, telling Britain’s <em>Glamour</em> magazine, “It’s really a joy in my life, and that’s it.”</p><hr><p><span style="font-size: 11px;">Image via taniavolobueva / Shutterstock.com</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"></span><br></p>