General Hospital Alum Vanessa Marcil Shares a ‘Cheeky’ Update — Plus, the ‘Animal Instincts’ That Draw Her and Her Partner to One Another

gh brenda Vanessa Marcil at arrivals for The Universal Pictures'' Premiere of PRIME, The Ziegfeld Theatre, New York, NY, Thursday, October 20, 2005. Photo by: Gregorio Binuya/Everett Collection

Credit: Gregorio Binuya/Everett of the Collection

The actress makes it clear what she finds hot… and not.

“Here’s my ass update,” Vanessa Marcil began her March 9 Instagram post. After recently copping to dropping the ball where her fitness regimen is concerned, she admitted that dang it, “I haven’t worked out again since my last post…

“But,” she added, “I think I may, on Thursday with my mom!”

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From there, the General Hospital Emmy winner shared a little appreciation of her shape, no matter the shape it’s in. “I love my body at every size, and so does [significant other] MC. We are drawn to each other through animal instincts.

“The only time we ever find each other unattractive,” she continued, “is when either of us are unkind.”

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Brenda’s portrayer definitely doesn’t share her character’s taste in men. “No… I don’t like ‘bad boys,'” she explained. “Or ‘make-up sex.’”

Even as she typed that last one, she threw in a puking emoji. “What do I find hot?” she went on. “Funny people, smart people, lack of shame, expression of sexual freedom, vulnerability and the bravery of self-reflection.”

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While you’re here and in a Marcil-ly kinda mood, perhaps you might like to check out the below photo gallery, which takes you from her General Hospital introduction as Brenda all the way through the end of her run… so far.

GENERAL HOSPITAL, Steve Burton, Vanessa Marcil, Sean Kanan, Antonio Sabato, Cari Shayne, Kimberly McCullough, (1993), 1963-, © ABC / Courtesy: Everett Collection

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In 1992, the daughter of womanizing businessman Harlan Barrett and the “late” Veronica Wilding showed up on the doorstep of older sister Julia, who forced her to enroll in high school if she ever wanted to see a penny of her trust fund. Feisty Brenda complied, but her idea of the three Rs wasn’t reading, writing and arithmetic, it was romance (with musclebound Jagger Cates), rivalry (with his true love, Karen Wexler) and real friendship (with sweet Robin Scorpio).

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Vanessa Marcil, Maurice Benard, 1994, 1963- . ph: Craig Sjodin /© ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

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Everyone who cared about Brenda told her over and over (and over) again that Sonny was bad news. She just couldn’t bring herself to believe it; by then, as you can see, the couple even dressed alike! So she decided to prove her loved ones wrong by wearing a wire on her boyfriend. It… um… Wow. It did not go well. Instead of getting to say to her friends, “I told ya so,” Brenda found herself on the receiving end of Sonny’s wrath and, as an added bonus, learning his least favorite word (betrayal). He was still as drawn to her as a moth to a flame, of course. But by the time he was willing to admit it, new wife Lily Rivera was pregnant.

gh jax brenda GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Vanessa Marcil, Ingo Rademacher, (1990s), 1963- , /©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

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Knowing the importance of family to Sonny, Brenda attempted to give up on the idea of living happily ever after with the godfather-slash-father-to-be by eating a pint of Häagen-Dazs and watching chick flicks throwing caution to the wind and tying the knot with rich Australian Jasper Jacks… just as a car bomb was removing from the picture both the don’s wife and unborn child. D’oh! In the aftermath, the widower made it his mission to win back Brenda. And when he failed with normal means — i.e., working the dimples and pointing out that Jax’s actual name was Jasper — he resorted to desperate measures.

GENERAL HOSPITAL, brenda jax wedding jim ober abc ec from left: Leslie Horan, Maurice Benard, Vanessa Marcil, Ingo Rademacher, 2000s, 1963- . ph: Jim Ober / ©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

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Eventually, Sonny wore down Brenda, to the point that she put Jax in rear-view and agreed to become made man and wife. But on the day that they were to exchange vows, Sonny realized — “Hey, wait a minute… ” — just how dangerous it was being a (cough) coffee importer. Brooding more than usual, he left his fiancée at the altar and sent his flunky — the bride’s old Port Charles High classmate, Jason Quartermaine Morgan — to deliver a message: It was a great ride.

GENERAL HOSPITAL, brenda jax Vanessa Marcil, Ingo Rademacher, (1993), 1963- , ph: Randy Holmes/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

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After being rescued from what could have been her watery grave by arms dealer Luis Alcazar, Brenda was forced to act as a kind of svelte human shield between her possessive “keeper” and her exes, Sonny and Jax. Mind you, she really, truly didn’t want either of them back. Or at least she didn’t want to want either of them back. Or at least… ya know what? Brenda was probably right after all; the only thing she could possibly do to keep from busting up Sonny’s marriage to Carly or Jax’s relationship with Skye Quartermaine was to get hitched to Jason. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

brenda sonny gh Maurice Benard, Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo"General Hospital" SetThe Prospect StudiosABC StudiosLos Angeles10/22/10©Howard Wise/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 12190U.S.Airdate 11/23/10

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You remember what happened next, right? Alcazar met his maker (courtesy of closet femme fatale Alexis Davis), Brenda and Jason were accused (and acquitted) of the crime, and she shared a passionate kiss with Sonny as an unorthodox method of preparing to remarry Jax (who, upon learning of the lip-lock, took a hard pass on the “I redo”). The mercurial supermodel wouldn’t return to Port Charles again until 2010, with a menacing Balkan in hot pursuit and Sonny as hot for her as ever.

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No sooner had Sonny and Brenda finally tied the knot in 2011 than the Balkan put his own spin on clink-boom. This bride made out a whole lot better than predecessor Lily had, but the newly-minted Mrs. Corinthos was soon faced with a terrible dilemma: Since she’d just been reunited with her “late” son, Alec, did she really want to be married to the Mob? Sonny answered that question for her when he shrugged off bullets flying in their direction — “They missed, didn’t they?” — and framed Jax in order to tank his custody case against Carly.

gh michael brenda Chad Duell, Vanessa Marcil "General Hospital" SetThe Prospect StudiosABC StudiosLos Angeles03/15/11©sean smith/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 12286U.S.Airdate 04/18/11

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Brenda’s 2013 visit to Port Charles to honor “late” pal Robin at the Nurses Ball was a short one, but she sure packed a lot into it: She not only revealed that she’d gotten engaged to Jax again (must have been his year), she sacrificed their second chance to ask for another one from Sonny (who confoundingly still posed as much of a threat as ever to her and Alec’s health) and faked a one-night stand with Carly’s son, Michael. You know, just to make her see redder than usual.

franco Roger Howarth"General Hospital" SetThe Prospect StudiosABC Studios09/27/19© Howard Wise/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 14443U.S. Airdate 12/05/19

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