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"Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable"

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There is a sly double move in Hendricks's "they're unbelievable": it reads like disbelief, but it also quietly indicts the people doing the talking. As a public figure whose body and image have been relentlessly narrated by strangers, she reaches for a word that refuses to repeat the insults while still letting their absurdity hang in the air. She doesn't quote the quotes. She doesn't litigate the details. She just labels the whole chorus as untrustworthy.

The phrasing is doing reputation management without sounding like PR. "Some of the things" is a strategic vagueness, a protective scrim that signals volume and intensity while denying the gossip economy fresh material. The little throat-clearing "well" is equally tactical: it performs casualness, as if she is almost amused, when the subtext is fatigue. It's a classic celebrity defense mechanism - deflation instead of confrontation - and it works because it invites the audience to fill in the blanks with the culture we already know: the hypersexualization, the speculation about her body, the "diva" myths, the weird certainty people feel entitled to when they consume a performer as an object.

Set against Hendricks's career, especially during the Mad Men era when her image became a lightning rod, the line reads as a boundary disguised as a shrug. She avoids the trap of sounding wounded, but she also refuses to normalize the commentary. The effect is polite, firm disbelief - a reminder that fame doesn't make other people's fantasies any less fictional.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hendricks, Christina. (2026, January 17). Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-of-the-things-people-have-said-about-me-well-37977/

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Hendricks, Christina. "Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-of-the-things-people-have-said-about-me-well-37977/.

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"Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-of-the-things-people-have-said-about-me-well-37977/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Christina Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is a Actress from USA.

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