Teri Hatcher Shares Bizarre Virginity Story and Condom Confession

Teri Hatcher is baring all about her sex life — and her surprising lack of knowledge at the time she lost her virginity.

The Desperate Housewives alum, 60, got brutally honest on the latest episode of her Desperately Devoted podcast, which she cohosts with her daughter Emerson Tenney, 27.

‘I didn’t know what a condom was,’ Hatcher admitted, recalling her teenage years during Thursday’s episode.

The former Bond Girl said she was a high school student when she decided to take the plunge — right in her parents’ house, and even more shockingly, on their waterbed.

‘I think the first time I was going to have sex [was] as a high school student in my parents’ house in their waterbed,’ she shared, adding that although she’d heard of condoms in school, she ‘didn’t know what they were or what they looked like.’

‘I didn’t get a condom, so I didn’t use one,’ she added, explaining she didn’t think her partner had one either — though she couldn’t quite ‘remember.’

Looking back, Hatcher reflected on the risky encounter with a mix of humor and disbelief: ‘I just know that I’m lucky I got out alive. 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 error.’ 

Later on the podcast, Hatcher opened up further about the event, recalling, ‘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 explained what she found: ‘I found this thing, that was like a white, almost like a bandaid, but thicker than a bandaid. It was three or four inches long and came in plastic, like you would unwrap it.’

Hatcher admitted just how inexperienced she was at the time: ‘I had it in my head that maybe you put it over the tip of the penis to keep [it from coming out]. This is how inexperienced I was going into having sex.’

The conversation then shifted to her daughter and cohost, Emerson, 27, with guest Andrea Bowen, 35 — who played Hatcher’s on-screen daughter on Desperate Housewives — asking Emerson whether she grew up in a home where sex was discussed openly.

Emerson described both her parents’ homes as generally ‘sex positive,’ adding, ‘It didn’t attach a lot of shame. 

‘Even when you think about parents who are uncomfortable sitting through a sex scene in a movie with their kids.’

She continued, ‘I feel like I always felt slightly more like that wasn’t something that was horrible or abnormal or like you couldn’t do if that came up in a movie or something.’

Emerson also shared that growing up in such a ‘naked positive’ household, she often ran around nude as a child.

‘I think that level of openness just around [the] body and asking questions of like, “What is a vagina? What is a penis?” I feel like those things were always talked about.’

The latest episode comes after Hatcher inadvertently stirred up those long-rumored Desperate Housewives feuds when she launched her podcast, billed as her and her daughter rewatching and discussing every episode.

The iconic comedy series — starring Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Nicollette Sheridan — has long been shadowed by reports of behind-the-scenes drama throughout its eight-season run.

Fans were quick to weigh in online. 

‘The other [Housewives] gonna be guests?’ one asked, while another shot back, ‘doubt it,’ nodding to the years of tension rumored on the Wisteria Lane set. 

Another predicted the podcast would address “multiple elephants in the room” when it comes to co-stars Sheridan, Huffman, Longoria, and Cross.

One fan even pointed out the subtle social media dynamics: Hatcher and Sheridan don’t follow Longoria, while Longoria follows both.

So far, though, Hatcher seems to be looking back with rose-tinted glasses, sharing nothing but fond memories about the show.

The drama-filled set was also touched on by Jesse Metcalfe, who played the gardener involved with Gabrielle Solis (Longoria) on-screen. 

Speaking at Southfork Experience’s Dallas Panel: The Ewing Heirs this summer, the 46-year-old heartthrob addressed the offscreen conflicts.

‘Matter of fact, there’s a lot of stories about all the drama on that set between some of our lead females,’ he said. 

‘And I was like, I was oblivious to it, basically, you know, because I was just so thrilled to be on a show and just so in the moment.’

Jesse added, ‘I was just kind of riding the wave, you know, because that show really broke me and I had everything coming at me and I was just enjoying it.”

The actor also recalled, ‘I was just happy to have a job. I went through an entire pilot season, I didn’t book anything, and I tested for Desperate Housewives, which was a recast, right at the end of that pilot season and ended up booking it.’