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For years, Ally Hensley felt embarrassed about her rare syndrome. This 42 year old woman was born without a vagina and only discovered her condition when she was a teenager.
Hensley felt paranoid, thinking about what other people would think if they found out about his condition. People will probably start ‘trying to undress her by eye’ to see if she ‘looks like Barbie’ or not.
Hensley suffers from a rare condition called Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome. This rare syndrome affects 1 in 5,000 women worldwide with different conditions.
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A woman diagnosed with this syndrome is also born without a uterus and cervix, so they will never be able to have children or become pregnant.
“I spent years feeling ashamed of my body, feeling like I wasn’t a normal woman and having to face the fact that I would never be able to have children,” she said in the Xpose Podcast with Samantha X, quoted by the Daily Mail.
“I didn’t feel like a typical woman, and was in bad relationships with men, struggling with feelings of lack of self-worth, self-confidence, and asking myself, ‘am I enough as a woman?’,” she continued.
Even though she doesn’t have a vagina or uterus, Hensley’s physical appearance is the same as other women. Hensley was born with ovaries, so her body still produces the hormone estrogen. She has breasts and hips like other women.
I felt embarrassed and sad
Hensley admitted that his condition had made him embarrassed. He felt like a strange person. Not to mention, he spent his teenage years visiting the doctor to have sensitive areas of his body checked.
“I felt like a freak. I felt lonely and embarrassed. And if there was a time when my emotions were too difficult to understand, it was the moment when I was hit by sadness. I felt ‘dirty’, I felt less than anything,” he said.
“Just imagine how embarrassing it was as a teenage girl to have my vagina constantly discussed by doctors with my parents.”
Many of these conversations talk about penetrative sex. Hensley was told that if she wanted to experience it, she would have to change the anatomy of her organs, and was asked to choose between surgery or dilation, which meant creating a vagina with a medical dilator.
Hensley decided to undergo vaginal dilation. However, Hensley’s suffering began after undergoing this action, Mother.
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