During the hiatus due to the writers strike in 2007-2008, January busied herself with designing jewelry and doing other projects. She also spent time with her family and did some traveling.
For her role as Betty Draper in the period TV series Mad Men, January read Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, and watched films from the 60s.
In 2005, she won a Camie Award for Love's Enduring Promise (2004). In 2006, she won a Bronze Wrangler Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005).
Her parents named her January after the character January Wayne in Jacqueline Susann's book Once is Not Enough. Her being born on the month of January is merely a coincidence.
January dated Ashton Kutcher from 1998-2001. She also dated Josh Groban for three years before breaking up in June 2006. As of 2008, she has been dating Tommy Alastra.
January Jones: (when asked by a talent agent if she wanted to be like Michelle Pfeiffer in her favorite movie, "Scarface") No, I want to be Tony Montana [Al Pacino's title character]. Well, he must've liked that, because he signed me on the spot.
January Jones: (on the cast of "American Wedding") They were great to me. They were very supportive and helped me out. They were just like brothers. And Alyson [Hannigan] was awesome to work with. She gave me everything I needed.
January Jones: (on playing a wife who thinks her husband is dead in "We Are Marshall") I had a hard time actually. It was an emotion that I couldn't relate to. I've never experienced grief and sadness but to come up with a way to portray someone who thinks her husband's dead and the feeling she must have had realizing that he's alive, I had a tough time.
January Jones: I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in American Wedding. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.