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Aussie mum Emily designs "stunning" vagina necklaces. They sell out almost instantly.

Emily Fitzgerald is an Australian jewellery designer who sells her work online. But it was only when she started making vagina necklaces – or yoni pendants, as she calls them – that business really started to boom.

Some of the hand-sculpted pieces are painted like rainbows and full of glitter and have a pearl for a clitoris. They’re all beautiful, and people are going crazy for them.

Following worldwide media coverage, Fitzgerald has temporarily sold out of the necklaces. But she’s making more.

“I honestly never expected these to be so widely popular,” she admits to Mamamia.

Fitzgerald is now expanding her range. She’s experimenting with rings and earrings that look like vaginas, and has also made her first “home decor yoni piece”.

It’s a wall mirror, shaped like a vagina.

The reaction on Instagram to Fitzgerald’s designs has been mostly positive, with people calling them everything from “stunning” to “dope”. But there have been some who’ve had a problem with it.

“Why?!” one outraged person posted. “This is not pretty!”

“These are gross and awesome at the same time,” wrote another.

Other people haven’t quite got the ‘point’ just yet.

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“Just me, or does it look a vagina?”

“I have received so much love and so much hate for these designs it has blown me away!’ Fitzgerald wrote on Instagram. “Please, people, refrain from sending me your hate mail. It’s just not nice. If you do not like my work, that is fine, but I’m not forcing it onto anybody.

“For the most part, love outweighs the hate.”

Fitzgerald says that, as an artist, every creation she makes has a meaning to her.

“I’m not going to go into shock value, but the yoni pendants hold a place in my heart,” the mother-of-three explains. “I’m not a sideshow alley joke, like the way these stories are coming across. I’m a woman with experience of the world.

“Did you know? I don’t know one woman who hadn’t experienced some sort of sexual assault.

“I was kissed by an old dude in a shopping centre at age six and thought I was in the wrong. Not okay!”

Fitzgerald says the aim of the vagina jewellery is to “empower the woman and normalise the body”.

“I hope my yoni necklaces might help the world to view vaginas in a more positive view. Everybody has a mother, don’t they?”

You can purchase one of Emily’s creations here.