Star of television’s “Desperate Housewives,” Alfre Woodard is sharing some secrets -no, not from Wisteria Lane, but from America’s desperate, and not so desperate, housewives.
The Emmy Award-winning actress says that a recent survey by Harris Interactive has uncovered some provocative secrets of real American housewives. “In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for the storyline on the show,” said Woodard. According to the Playtex Secrets survey of more than 1,300 married U.S. women, nearly three out of four (72 percent) say they have a deep secret, but more than one in three have not divulged it to anyone.
Nearly half (44 percent) say they’ve had a secret crush. Surprisingly, nearly half of those women (48 percent) are secretly crushing on someone they work with-a co-worker, colleague or even their boss. Even more revealing, about one in five (21 percent) admit to having secretly admired their husband’s friend(s).
Three in 10 married women (29 percent) describe their relationship with their mother-in-law as one of toleration. Shockingly, as many as one in five (20 percent) say they’d...