Teri Hatcher confessed that she was not ready when she misplaced her virginity as an adolescent.
“I didn’t know what a condom was,” the actress, 60, mentioned on the Thursday, October 23, episode of her “Desperately Devoted” podcast, which she hosts alongside her Determined Wives costar Andrea Bowen and real-life daughter Emerson Tenney. “I feel the primary time I used to be going to have intercourse as a highschool scholar, in my dad and mom’ home, of their waterbed.”
Hatcher defined that she discovered at school that she ought to use a condom when having intercourse. Nonetheless, she didn’t know what they had been or what they even appeared like. So when it was time for her to lose her virginity, she was seeking a condom in her dad and mom’ bed room.
“So I used to be wanting in my dad and mom’ drawers to see if there was something and nonetheless to at the present time, I’ve by no means advised this story to anybody,” she recalled. “I discovered this factor, it was like a white, nearly like a bandaid, however thicker than a bandaid.”
She added that the merchandise was about “three or 4 inches lengthy” and “got here in plastic,” which she may “unwrap.”
“I had it in my head that possibly you set it over the tip of the penis to maintain it [from coming out,]” she mentioned. “That is how inexperienced I used to be going into having intercourse.”
Since Hatcher didn’t know what that merchandise was, she opted to not use it. She additionally didn’t discover a condom.
“I didn’t get a condom, so I didn’t use one,” she recalled.
Hatcher added that whereas she couldn’t “bear in mind” if her associate had introduced a condom with him, she didn’t suppose that was the case.
“All I do know is that I’m fortunate I obtained out alive,” she quipped. “I’m fortunate I’m right here at the moment to speak about any of it. If we’re actually going to look at my sexual historical past, it’s simply full of errors.”
After Hatcher’s story, Bowen, 35, requested Tenney what her expertise was along with her mother when it got here time to speak in regards to the birds and the bees. Tenney recalled the conversations she had along with her dad and mom as “intercourse constructive.” (Hatcher shares Emerson with ex-husband Jon Tenney. The exes had been married from 1994 to 2003.)
“It didn’t connect quite a lot of disgrace. Even once you consider dad and mom who’re uncomfortable sitting via a intercourse scene film with their children,” she mentioned. “I really feel like I all the time felt barely extra that it wasn’t one thing horrible or irregular otherwise you couldn’t do if that got here up in a film or one thing.”
Emerson additionally joked that she lived in a “bare constructive home” as she was the type of child who ran round nude a lot that Hatcher made up a tune for her toddler.
“I feel that degree of openness simply round [the] physique and asking questions like, ‘What’s a vagina? What’s a penis?’ I really feel like these issues had been all the time talked about,” Emerson mirrored.
