Meet This 26- Year- Old Woman Who Has Two Vaginas.
Have you ever heard of any woman who has two cervixes, two uteruses, and two vaginas? Leanne Bell, a 37- year- old American, lives in this world. When Leanne was 26 years old, she discovered that she had a pair of each of these organs. Today, Leanne is speaking out about her uncommon illness. Leanne has had to deal with the complications associated with having uterus didelphys, a disorder that happens when two uteruses develop during a newborn girl’s development in her mother’s womb.
When she struggled to tampon-insert in her teens, she realized something was a little off about her. She just realized how unique she is from other women after going to her gynecologist to have contraception implanted in her uterus.
” I went in to get an IUD [intrauterine device] placed and they said they couldn’t place it, ” Leanne says in a series of TikTok videos. ” The gynecologist looked around and said, ‘ I think you have two vaginas’ , ” she adds. The doctor did an ultrasound scan and it was confirmed that Leanne did in fact have two vaginas. As expected, her followers had many questions.
Leanne also created two diagrams that contrast her reproductive organs with typical ones in the interest of education. A wall of tissue that extends all the way up to her cervix, dividing it as well, effectively divides her vagina into two. Then, a uterus is connected to each cervix. From the outside, everything seems normal. She goes through her period in twice the discomfort because she has two reproductive organs.
” Usually, they occur simultaneously, but occasionally they do not. Additionally, I must go for two Pap smears, which is awful. There is no consolation in it. Yes, I use two tampons. As I mentioned, I always do twice what one woman does.
Leanne could also fall pregnant with two babies at the same time, each nestled in its own uterus and conceived on different days within a week of each other. While other women with uterus didelphys can have healthy pregnancies, hers would be high-risk.