Some guys view you as a trophy and a goal.
That way, when they find out that about you, like,
"Yeah, I had sex with a girl with two vaginas."
I felt like a freak of nature.
Honestly, when a doctor tells you that, you think, "What the hell?
"What do I do with this?"
And then there's the other aspect of trying to explain that
to your partners before you have sex,
like, "Hey, I'm a little different down there."
I found out I had two vaginas when I was 17.
The make-up of my reproductive system prior to surgery...
You would have the opening, normal labia
and then it funnels up
and splits off into a "Y"
and it's two different vaginal canals.
At the end of the canals, there were two little doughnut areas
with cervixes and that divided off into two separate uterine bodies.
I first noticed that something was wrong when I was bleeding
more than I thought I should,
and the pain was intolerable.
When I was on my period, I could not function.
I went to my primary care physician with complaints
of excessive bleeding.
My surgeon told me that I, in fact, had two uteruses,
two vaginas and two cervixes.
There were times I had to wear Depends because pads, tampons...
they weren't sufficient enough.
The condition affected my life pretty severely.
Relationships with my boyfriends, relationships with my friends.
I can't even honestly begin to imagine what she's been through
because I'm not a woman.
But I could get a glimpse of it because I could see
the after-effects of it.
He's my rock. He takes care of me.
He's never made me feel like a disappointment.
I love her, and she's the one.
Nicci is really strong.
I commend her for being as strong as she was getting through all this.
I can only imagine how hard it was for her.
I've had three miscarriages.
You get very desperate when you want to have children
and you just wonder, "What am I doing wrong?
"Why am I going through this?"
My hardest and darkest moment...
after my last miscarriage.
You know, I'd been bleeding for six months straight. And you're drained.
You just want to be done.
And you have moments where you don't want to live,
but you know you have to.
So... Staying strong is all I could do.
Put on a bit smile and do what you've got to do to get by.
So...
First I was OK with it, but the feeling I felt knowing that
I could not have my own children, I kind of thought...
like I wasn't really a woman,
I wasn't fulfilling what I wanted to do.
It was kind of a hard-hitting moment.
If that meant it was going to improve her life,
I was fine with it. I was like, "Look, we can always adopt."
I know a few people that have adopted and, you know,
the benefit of giving a kid another chance with a better home...
even better.
Dr Winter has helped me so much.
Hello.
How are you?
Immediately, she was on board.
I didn't have to fight her for the hysterectomy.
She was more than willing to do it. She realised I'd had enough.
The first thing I'm going to do is just check the incisions on
your abdomen.
So, these incisions are perfect.
These will continue to get flatter,
softer and less noticeable up to the course of a whole year.
So what you see now is not the final product.
Those look like those are healing up great.
Now that I've had a hysterectomy with the reconstruction,
where they remove the vaginal septum, I now have a normal vagina
with one vaginal opening, no cervix now, obviously, and no uteruses.
Sex now is good. It's comfortable. It feels one million times better.
I don't have any pain at all.
Oh, you just sat on Amos.
INDISTINCT
Really?
Bless my husband.
He has moments where he's like scared to touch me still,
it seems like,
because four months isn't long after surgery, and we're still
trying to figure out my new vagina, so...
Oh, what's wrong, buddy?
I want to adopt one day. Hopefully soon.
There are so many women out there that have anomalies
and don't feel like they have anybody.
So, you're not alone and you've just got to be strong.
Cross-stitch my friend did for me when my surgery...
That is...
the cervix, cervixes,
and then the two uteruses with the ovaries.
You're not a circus freak if you have two vaginas.
You're just different. You learn to work with it.