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‘Mad Men’ star Christina Hendricks pens ‘a letter to men’: ‘Stand up, open a door, offer a jacket’

“Mad Men” the beauty Christina Hendricks is the epitome of a real woman.

Not only is she beautiful, honest and unafraid to flaunt her assets, the actress dares to tell men what she really thinks about them in the May issue of Esquire.

“We love your body. If we’re in love with you, we love your body. Your potbelly, everything,” Hendricks writes in “A Letter to Men.”

“Speaking of your body, you don’t understand the power of your own smell. Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells.”

Hendricks, 34, goes on to inform those of the opposite sex that women often keep memories in “steel boxes.”

“We remember forever what you say about the bodies of other women. It’s not about whether or not we approve of the comment. It’s about learning what you think is sexy and how we might be able to convey it,” she writes, adding that women also remember everything men say about their bodies.

Manners are also an important quality to Hendricks, who instructs men to “stand up, open a door, offer a jacket” to their female companion.

While etiquette – and ordering Scotch – is a plus, the ravishing redhead says men who wear tank tops, shorts that go below the knee and use Facebook (“I really cannot stand it”) as minuses in her book.

Though she is better known for her killer curves, Hendricks offers her admirers a dose of reality, saying, “The men who constantly stare at our breasts are never the men we’re attracted to.”

Someone whom Hendricks is attracted to, however, is actor Geoffrey Arend, whom she wed in 2009.

“The only things that will get a married man laid that won’t get a single man laid are adultery and w—–,” she writes. “Intelligence and humor (and your smell) are what get you laid. That’s what got you laid when you were single. That’s what gets you laid when you’re married. Everything still works in marriage: especially intelligence and humor. Because the sexiest thing is to know you.”