January Jones Says She Doesn’t Feel ‘Lonely’ Raising Her Son Alone

There is an important distinction to make between being alone and being lonely, January Jones says in the new issue of Red — especially when it comes to motherhood.

Jones, mother to five-year-old Xander, tells the magazine it's not a concern whether she finds someone with whom she co-parent her son. She is perfectly content handling child-rearing solo.

"I just don’t feel I need a partner,” she explains. “Do I want one? Maybe. But I don’t feel unhappy or lonely. It would have to be someone amazing that I would want to make room. Someone who would contribute to my happiness and not take away from it."

Further, she adds the notion that every boy needs a masculine role model is antiquated, and says her son might actually wind up more compassionate and measured without one.

“It’s good to have strong women around a man,” she said. “To teach him to respect women. He doesn’t have a male person in his life saying ‘don’t cry’ or ‘you throw like a girl’. All those s----y things dads accidentally do."

Still, in the event Jones finds herself on the market, she has a particular type in mind.

"I want a manly man in flannel, with a beard and an axe. But then there’s always something wrong with him. Like he’s a Republican," she notes.

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