Helen Flanagan 'felt minging' about Coronation Street storylines
Helen Flanagan has confessed to feeling awkward about some of her storylines.
Helen Flanagan felt uncomfortable with some of her Coronation Street storylines.
The 35-year-old actress played Rosie Webster in the ITV soap, and Helen admits that she now looks back on some of her storylines with some regret.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, Helen explained: "Was it morally right that I was expected to parade about in my knickers like some mad nymphomaniac when I was still just a teenager?
"Alison King, who plays Carla Connor, once kicked off in the green room, saying how disgusting it was that they were sexualising me when I was a young girl. I didn’t fully comprehend what she was talking about at the time. I do now. I get it.
"I had to do kissing and bedroom scenes with a man a lot older than me. Obviously the actor [Graeme Hawley] was lovely, but I don’t think it would happen now.
"When you’re 16 you don’t really know what’s going on and I was just happy to get the big storylines. But I had scenes as Rosie which didn’t always sit comfortably with me. I felt minging post-shoot.
"Everything has changed now, which I'm glad about. They wouldn’t write it in quite the same way all these years later and since the Me Too movement."
Despite this, Helen does sometimes feel empowered by her sexuality.
The soap star stressed that she likes to feel in control whenever she's posing for photographs.
Helen - who has Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, four, with her ex-partner Scott Sinclair - said: "I post sexy pictures. I work for different lingerie brands. I enjoy that. I like to feel sexy. I like to feel empowered - and in control. That’s the difference.
"I’ve turned up to some shoots which I didn’t know would be so ‘sexy’, thinking it would be unprofessional to object and been in tears."
