Hendricks on her sex symbol status: 'It sounds silly to me'

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'Mad Men' star Christina Hendricks said 'it's incredibly flattering' to be considered a sex symbol.

Christina Hendricks is happily married, but most people don't know that when they see her on the street.

All they know, it seems, is that Hendricks is one of the talented and undeniably sexy stars of "Mad Men."

Hence, the flirting.

"Men don't really approach me much ? " she said on "The View" Wednesday, revealing that it is actually the ladies who tend to come on strong.

"Women do come up and they sort of ? they're flirtatious with me," she said. "It's funny."

When the co-hosts commended Hendricks, 36, for her "sultry" strut often seen on the AMC show, the actress admitted she's not consciously trying to be seductive.

"I think I was just trying to get across the room in a tight dress," she said.

Sherri Shepherd also called Hendricks inspiring for being shapely, unlike many of the "little thin things" the talk show usually features.

"It sounds silly to me," she said when asked what she thinks about being labeled a sexy symbol.

"It's incredibly flattering," the TV star added before attributing her image to "Mad Men" and "how stylish it is."

Joy Behar wondered whether Hendricks had received any offers to appear in Playboy.

"They haven't asked me," she answered, "or if they asked me, no one told me about it."

Hendricks didn't mention, though, that she has already posed in the magazine ? in a skimpy bikini.

Earlier this year, the mag dug into its archives and shared a 1999 photo on Twitter that shows Hendricks in a blond wig and straddling an overly-tanned male who is wearing nothing but a tiny bathing suit.

This photo appeared in Playboy's July 1999 issue. (Twitter)

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