It was forbidden to say "vagina" in "Grey's Anatomy"

Ellen Pompeo is Meredith Gray in "Grey's Anatomy" -

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh was' vagina 'was not allowed to be spoken in actors' dialogues, explained Ellen Pompeo, aka Doctor Meredith Gray in the series

, in the program Jimmy Kimmel Live on the ABC network, at United States.

"You could say 'penis', but you couldn't say 'vagina'," said the actress, explaining that the team had however found a way to this ban from above.

The director of the series, Shonda Rhimes, had invented a word to replace "vagina" (

in English): "V

".

“And that's how this problem was solved,” explained Ellen Pompeo.

This discrimination is added to the others suffered by the women in the series, since Ellen Pompeo earned half as much as Patrick Dempsey, aka Doctor Derek Shepherd ...

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