January Jones and her rarely-seen son Xander, 13, make red carpet appearance together
The actress, 47, made a red carpet appearance with rarely-seen 13-year-old while at the 18th annual SeaChange Summer Party in Laguna Beach, California, on Saturday.
The 'Mad Men' alum donned a black dress, sandals, and a black headband as the pair posed for photos.
8 January Jones and son Xander Dane.
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Xander, who is nearly the same height as his famous mom, wore a linen striped shirt with white pants and black Adidas sneakers.
'So excited to celebrate Oceana's 23rd birthday and attend @oceanaseachange last night!' Jones wrote on Instagram, alongside a close-up of herself and Xander. She covered the teen's face with a light blue heart emoji.
Jones has largely kept her son out of the spotlight, having last brought Xander to the same event when he was 10 years old in 2021.
8 January Jones and her son Xander Dane at the 18th Annual SeaChange Summer Party.
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Jones has never publicly revealed the identity of Xander's father, telling The New York Times in 2013, 'That's my son's business. It's not the public's business.'
The Sioux Falls native, meanwhile, rarely shares Xander's life on social media except for birthdays.
On Sept. 13, 2024, the 'Love, Actually' alum posted an Instagram Story of Xander in front of a sunset, captioning the sweet shot, 'Bday boy is a teen 😩.'
A year prior, Jones marked the special occasion with an Instagram video of Xander dancing in front of Nobu Malibu.
8 January Jones stuns in a black dress while her 13-year-old Xander wears a linen top and Adidas.
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'Happy Birthday to my child. So proud to be yours,' she penned. 'Couldn't love you more.'
Despite keeping her son's life private, Jones teased in 2023 just how he's inspired her fashion sense.
'I never expected my midlife crisis to say 'take all fashion cues from teenage boys' yet here I am,' she teased on social media at the time.
8 January Jones poses on the red carpet at Montage Laguna Beach.
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Sporting an oversized blue and white t-shirt over a black slip dress, Jones knelt in the grass, explaining, 'My son makes this pose in pics now so I did it to mock him and the jokes on me cause he's right, it def makes you look cooler.'
While Jones has kept tight-lipped on the identity of her son's father, she did open up about her motherhood journey in 2017.
'My younger sisters [Jacey and Jina] and my mum and my doula were in the room,' she revealed to Red Magazine about Xander's birth. 'My brother-in-law and my dad were next door. I only wanted women with me. Female energy. And I was embarrassed – your body does all these crazy things. It was a 30-hour process but it was awesome. I'd love to do it again.'
8 January Jones on July 26, 2025 in Laguna Beach, California.
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The female energy still surrounds her only child today.
'Maybe too much,' she joked to the outlet.
'Maybe I should get a manny soon,' Jones pondered. 'But Xander has a lot of bro time with the neighbor dads and my dad, who is super young.'
8 January Jones poses with Xander.
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'It's good to have strong women around a man,' she continued. '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 shitty things dads accidentally do.'
Jones added that her male friends also 'want to be around him because he's such a fun kid.'
'I love to cook a soup on Sundays for football,' stated Jones. 'Have the neighbors over – the kids play.'
8 January Jones celebrates her son's birthday will a sweet video.
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The Hollywood vet also detailed her tight schedule, sharing, 'It's just me and a nanny. No one lives in the house with us. I go to work, always leave at 5pm, come home, let the nanny go and then I'm mum.'
'I put Xander to bed. Watch two hours of reality TV,' she noted, 'then go to bed myself. It's escapism – 'The Bachelor,' 'The Bachelorette,' 'The Housewives' of Whatever – all of them.'
At the time, Jones also made it clear she wasn't actively looking for love.
8 January Jones and son Xander Dane Jones attend the Los Angeles Mission's Annual Thanksgiving.
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'People want to set me up all the time and I'm like, 'No way.' If I meet someone and we go out, then fine, but I'm not going to go look.'
'I realize I have very high expectations and will probably have to compromise – but my life is so full,' Jones explained. 'It's not like, 'Aww, I wish I had a man.' After I had Xander, I went on a couple of dates and I was like, 'I'd rather be at home sleeping, or watching TV or hanging out with my kid.''
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