Experts: Girls As Young As Nine Want Designer Vaginas To Look Like Barbie

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