Ten years ago, I saw a documentary about labiaplasty, and became mildly obsessed with having a ‘designer vagina’.
The few people I shared my plans with thought I was mad, even the surgeon said he wouldn’t recommend the surgery – but not enough to turn down my thousands of dollars, of course.
If you don’t know what a labiaplasty is – technically it’s where you change the size and/or shape of your inner labia. If you want to be crass about it, which I do (because it is), it’s where you cut off the ‘extra’ and toss it away – like you would the offcuts of some pastry if you were baking a pie. Seriously – Google it. Or don’t. Definitely not while you’re eating lunch and it’s probably NSFW just FYI.
Learn a little more about your lady bits with this Mamamia video. Post continues below.
Since then, I’ve had some time to reflect. It’s dawned on me that what I essentially signed myself up (and paid handsomely) for was female genital mutilation, and I’m ashamed. These days, as a mother of a young daughter with another on the way, it makes me shudder to think of them doing the same thing – or ever believing they’re not 100 per cent perfect as they are.
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I just don’t understand the designer vagina craze. I mean sure if excess skin is catching and painful, I can absolutely understand having this surgery but for other reasons, I find it baffling.
I'm also overweight, but if I'd received this message I personally wouldn't have seen it as fat shaming. I think I would have viewed it as a mixture of subtle criticism and genuine concern.
Regardless, both kinds of comment help motivate me to keep going in trying to get my weight down through nutrition and exercise.
Not every negative comment about a person's weight has a negative consequence. Negative comments mostly cause me to take stock and motivate me to work harder.
Think you posted this on the wrong article