Coro St's Kym: My kids' mates think I'm 'fit'
Coronation Street's Kym Marsh has revealed lots of her teenage son's friends want to come round to her house to meet her. The 33-year-old actress, who plays Michelle Connor in the soap, has two children, David, 14, and Emily, 11. Kym said: "It's quite funny - my son does get quite a few boys going up to him at school saying things like, 'I saw your mum the other night in the bath'." The star's children also watched the recent bath scene. It saw Michelle having a soak before getting up to rescue builder Jake (Kenny Doughty) from the roof gutter, at which point her towel fell down and she had just bath suds hiding her modesty. In real life, Kym wore a stick-on bra and flesh-coloured knickers to film the scene. Asked what her children thought of it, she said: "They thought it was really funny. They knew how I'd filmed it, I'd explained it properly to them. "My son rang me and said, 'That's really funny mum.' They really get it and appreciate it. To them, I'm just their mum so it's no biggie. But people go up to them at school and say, 'Your mum's fit'."
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