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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Shaheena Uddin

‘I wanted a designer vagina since I was 14 – but I now live in excruciating pain’

A woman who desperately wanted “designer vagina” surgery at the age of 14 wants to ban the practice after she was left in “excruciating pain”.

Campaigners are calling for labiaplasty – which alters the appearance of the folds of skin at the vaginal opening and is sometimes referred to as getting a “Barbie” vagina – to be treated as female genital mutilation (FGM).

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