Teri Hatcher makes unexpected admission about the first time she had sex

Teri Hatcher has made an unexpected admission about the time she lost her virginity.

Best known for her time on the TV drama Desperate Housewives, Hatcher has accumulated a number of impressive credits in her career to date.

And while she often does the media rounds to promote her latest projects, the 60-year-old is not afraid to touch on personal experiences.

Speaking on the Thursday's (October 23) episode of her Desperately Devoted podcast, Hatcher revealed she wasn't prepared to lose her virginity as a teenager.

I mean, that's not exactly uncommon - but Hatcher recalled the somewhat unexpected place she had sex for the first time.

Speaking alongside co-host Andrea Bowen and daughter Emerson Tenney, Hatcher said: "I didn’t know what a condom was. I think the first time I was going to have sex as a high school student, in my parents’ house, in their waterbed."

Teri Hatcher said she's never shared the story before (Tristar Media/Getty Images)

Like most teenagers, Hatcher did sex education and learnt about the birds and the bees during school - though those classes did not teach her about what condoms look like and how they are used.

So, when it came to the actor losing her virginity, an awkward rummage through her parents' drawers is something Hatcher can somewhat laugh off nowadays.

"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," Hatcher recalled.

"I found this thing, it was like a white, almost like a bandaid, but thicker than a bandaid."

It was 'three or four inches long came in plastic', according to Hatcher - and to this day she has no idea what it was.

Teri Hatcher has been speaking about the time she lost her virginity (Ayisha Collins/Getty Images for amfAR)

Hatcher continued: "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 actor did not use it in the end.

"I didn’t get a condom, so I didn’t use one," she added, admitting she wasn't sure if her partner brought a condom with him.

The Desperate Housewives star continued: "All I know is 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 errors."

Hatcher seems to have made an effort to educate her own child about sex, with her daughter Emerson saying on the podcast she grew up in a 'sex positive household'.

"It didn’t attach a lot of shame," she 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."