A HIGH Wycombe woman has revealed all on national television about a one-in-a-million condition which means she has two fully formed vaginas.
Hazel Jones, 27, told ITV 1’s This Morning about living with uterus didelphys, a rare condition which means a woman has two separate uteruses, two vaginas and two cervixes.
The condition is caused when a septum, which usually breaks down between two tubes that form the uterus, fails to break down.
She said she didn’t realise anything was different about her until her periods started when she was 14, when she bled from one side and then the other.
Ms Jones told presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: "It wasn't nice. I had friends and I would try and explain to them, 'I'm having a problem' but they had no idea what I was doing. They looked even more confused than I did.
"If you are not aware that you have got this it can be really uncomfortable, I thought I was having cystitis, I thought I was having urine infections from a young age, when I wasn't. I was actually tearing the middle septum."
Her first serious boyfriend noticed something was "different" and prompted her to go to hospital, where she was diagnosed with the condition at 18.
She said: “As soon as I found out what it was I told everybody- I thought it was amazing. It's definitely an ice-breaker at parties.
“If women want to have a look, I'm quite happy to show them, it's not something I'm embarrassed by."
She has lost her virginity twice, has to have two smear tests and will also have to be careful about getting pregnant, but her sex life is not affected by the condition.
Ms Jones has declined surgery to rectify the rare condition. She said: “They offered to remove the septum but I refused to have the surgery.
“They have to treat you like they would a post-op transsexual because if you have something removed from an area like that there's a risk of healing back together.
“You have to have it separated all the time and it can be very uncomfortable and cause scar tissue."
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