Teri Hatcher lost her virginity on her parents' waterbed without protection
The 60-year-old actress admitted she had no clue about sex or condoms when she first did the deed as a high school student
28 October 2025
Teri said on the latest episode of her and daughter Emerson Tenney, 27, as well as her Desperate Housewives on-screen girl Andrea Bowen's Desperately Devoted podcast: "I didn't know what a condom was.
"I think the first time I was going to have sex [was] as a high school student in my parents' house in their waterbed.
"But I was looking for a condom because I had, I guess, I'd been told from high school that you should have a condom. But I didn't know what they were or what they looked like.
"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.
"I found this thing, that was like a white, almost like a band aid, but thicker than a band aid, but like about three or four inches long, and it looked like - and it came in plastic, like you would unwrap it.
"And 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.
"So, of course, I didn't use that. No, I didn't get a condom, so I didn't use one."
Teri insisted she did not think her then-partner had brought a condom with him, but the star could not "remember".
She then said: "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."
Andrea, 35, then quizzed Emerson - whom Teri has with her ex-husband, 63-year-old actor Jon Tenney - on whether she grew up in a household where talking freely and openly about sex was encouraged.
Emerson said: "I feel like I did grow up generally between both my mom and dad, like in pretty sex-positive households that 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, 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."
And Emerson went on to reveal she felt like her household was "very naked positive".
She added: "When I was really little, before any feelings of sexuality really start to emerge, I feel like I lived in a very naked positive house.
"I was like, definitely the kid running around naked all the time."
Emerson then said: "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."
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