Girls as young as nine are asking their GPs about labiaplasty to have designer vaginas to look like Barbie.
Adolescent�gynaecologist Dr Naomi Crouch told the�Victoria Derbyshire show�that on the average, girl aged 14 or 15, but some are as young as nine, ask for the procedure,�believing the inner lips of their vagina should be invisible.
“Typically they are mid-adolescents, they’d be 14 or 15, but I have seen girls who are younger – the youngest girl I have seen is nine,” she said.
Experts said that young girls are increasingly�becoming aware and�ashamed�of how their�vagina�looks and�seeking cosmetic surgery.
“Girls will sometimes come out with comments like, ‘I just hate it, I just want it removed,’ and for a girl to feel that way about any part of her body – especially a part that’s intimate – is very upsetting.
“That the inner lips should be invisible, a bit like a Barbie doll, but the reality is there is a great variation in the size of the inner lips and some of them may protrude,” she said.
Dr Couch also said that the number of girls consulting about labiaplasty�- a reshaping or shortening of the lips of the vagina – is increasingly alarming.�”Over the last few years where I might have seen one or two patients every few months, I am now seeing patients every week.”
In a�research�study done last year, a survey of 443 Australian GPs found that a third have seen patients aged under 18 wanting to trim or shape their genitals.
Source:�Kidspot.com.au
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