{"id":185973,"date":"2023-11-15T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/?p=185973"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:51:29","slug":"womans-bizarre-medical-condition-means-she-was-born-without-a-vagina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/celebrity\/womans-bizarre-medical-condition-means-she-was-born-without-a-vagina\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman's bizarre medical condition means she was born without a vagina"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman has revealed how she discovered she was born without a vaginal opening.<\/p>\n
Sydney Bean, 24, from Idaho, told KIIS FM’s The Kyle and Jackie O show on Monday, she discovered she had microperforate hymen – where the hymen covers almost the entire opening to your vagina – after trying to use a tampon.<\/p>\n
‘It’s not as obvious as one might expect especially when you’re a baby,’ Sydney told hosts Kyle Sandilands or Jackie O Henderson.<\/p>\n
Sydney said she underwent a hymenectomy, a surgical procedure to open or remove the hymen.<\/p>\n
‘I had surgery at 17. It was extremely painful. It took me about a week to recover,’ she explained.<\/p>\n
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Sydney Bean has revealed the bizarre medical condition that means she was born without a vagina<\/p>\n
Kyle then asked Sydney about her love life, adding: ‘When you found love later on in life, have they commented on it?’<\/p>\n
‘They wouldn’t notice unless I say something but I always say something,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘I bring it up on the first date… It’s a funny story and I like to be very upfront about my body.’<\/p>\n
She continued: ‘I am intersex and there are other things about my body that are not male or female.’<\/p>\n
Sydney said she has a heightened levels of androgens, which are usually thought of as male hormones, even though small amounts are also produced in the female body.<\/p>\n
Intersex is an umbrella term used to describe a person who is born with genitals, chromosomes, or reproductive organs that don’t fit into a male\/female sex binary.<\/p>\n
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She told The Kyle and Jackie O show on Monday, she discovered she had microperforate hymen after trying to use a tampon<\/p>\n
It comes after Sydney recently recalled how it took her years to realise there was a community of people with anatomical differences like her own in an\u00a0episode of the Truly series\u00a0Born Different.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ‘Life has changed tremendously since I began to identify as intersex. I’ve been a lot happier with myself because I can understand why my body is the way that it is,’ she said.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘I wish people would understand that it’s not bizarre to be intersex. The biological sex is not binary. It exists on a spectrum.’<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sydney said she underwent a hymenectomy, a surgical procedure to open or remove the hymen\u00a0<\/p>\nREAD MORE:\u00a0Tracey Cox reveals the 11 things you should never put near your private parts<\/h3>\n