Teri Hatcher confessed that she was not prepared when she lost her virginity as a teenager.
“I didn’t know what a condom was,” the actress, 60, said on the Thursday, October 23, episode of her “Desperately Devoted” podcast, which she hosts alongside her Desperate Wives costar Andrea Bowen and real-life daughter Emerson Tenney. “I think the first time I was going to have sex as a high school student, in my parents’ house, in their waterbed.”
Hatcher explained that she learned in school that she should use a condom when having sex. However, she did not know what they were or what they even looked like. So when it was time for her to lose her virginity, she was in search of a condom in her parents’ bedroom.
“So I was looking in my parents’ drawers to see if there was anything and still to this day, I’ve never told this story to anyone,” she recalled. “I found this thing, it was like a white, almost like a bandaid, but thicker than a bandaid.”
She added that the item was about “three or four inches long” and “came in plastic,” which she could “unwrap.”
“I had it in my head that maybe you put it over the tip of the penis to keep it [from coming out,]” she said. “This is how inexperienced I was going into having sex.”
Since Hatcher did not know what that item was, she opted not to use it. She also did not find a condom.
“I didn’t get a condom, so I didn’t use one,” she recalled.
Hatcher added that while she couldn’t “remember” if her partner had brought a condom with him, she didn’t think that was the case.
“All I know is that I’m lucky I got out alive,” she quipped. “I’m lucky I’m here today to talk about any of it. If we’re really going to examine my sexual history, it’s just filled with errors.”
After Hatcher’s story, Bowen, 35, asked Tenney what her experience was with her mom when it came time to talk about the birds and the bees. Tenney recalled the conversations she had with her parents as “sex positive.” (Hatcher shares Emerson with ex-husband Jon Tenney. The exes were married from 1994 to 2003.)
“It didn’t attach a lot of shame. Even when you think of parents who are uncomfortable sitting through a sex scene movie with their kids,” she said. “I feel like I always felt slightly more that it wasn’t something horrible or abnormal or you couldn’t do if that came up in a movie or something.”
Emerson also joked that she lived in a “naked positive house” as she was the kind of kid who ran around nude so much that Hatcher made up a song for her little one.
“I think that level of openness just around [the] body and asking questions like, ‘What is a vagina? What is a penis?’ I feel like those things were always talked about,” Emerson reflected.
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