Ex-White House Intern Says She Lost Her Virginity To JFK In Jackie O’s Bedroom

By:Radar Staff

Feb. 9 2012, Published 9:00 a.m. ET

By Adam S. Levy - RadarOnline.com Staff Writer

Before Monica, there was Mimi.

Former White House intern Mimi Alford says that in 1962, the late President John F. Kennedy took her on a tour of the White House, including a detour into Jackie O’s bedroom.

There, she says, the 45-year-old commander-in-chief took the 19-year-old debutante’s virginity.

“The president came very close to me and ... put his hands on my shoulder and guided me down to the edge of the bed ... I lost my virginity, right there,” Alford, who details what she says was an 18-month affair with the president in a new memoir, told the Today Show’s Anne Curry Thursday.

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(Alford confirmed the affair after a 2003 book exposed the tryst, but has never gone into candid detail about her coming of age at Camelot until now.)

“It wasn't something I had planned, certainly something I hadn't expected to happen,” she said of her impromptu deflowering.

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Alford, now 69, said when Kennedy placed her at the edge of the bed, she “knew what was going to happen.

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“If I could recall my feeling for that moment it was almost like it was what I was supposed to be doing,” Alford recalled. “I didn’t feel like I was really being forced; it was almost like being swept away.”

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Alford said she also had romps with JFK in a White House swimming pool.

Alford told Curry her “relationship with Kennedy was very imbalanced...but I accepted that imbalance because I wanted to be a part of it.”