BLOODY HELL SMEAR QUEST

The (true) stories that left people more than red-faced…

ART ATTACK

“I was teaching an art-activity class when I started to leak. I checked my skirt and noticed a mark so I grabbed a bottle of red paint, squirted it over my skirt, and then ‘accidentally’ bumped into a table of paint pots.”

WHITE OUT

“I used to think I could wear whatever I wanted during my period. Until the day I put on very white jeans to go to a restaurant. I had to wrap my boyfriend’s coat around me as we left because, yep, the inevitable happened…”

RED DREAD

“I was 15 and doing a Duke Of Edinburgh trek while on my period. On my heaviest day, I didn’t get to change my pad at all. When I finally got to the toilet, the wings had chafed so much they’d cut into my vagina. And we had two days of hiking to go.” “I went for my first smear test and agreed to let some training medics watch, totally forgetting I was on my period. My legs were in the stirrups and a team of people was crowded around my crotch when the doctor, without saying anything, removed the tampon I’d forgotten about, and walked it, blood and all, over to the bin.”