A woman born with no vagina has surgery to create her one

Friday, 2 Dec, 2016

A young woman who was born without a vagina has told how she hopes to become a mother following life-changing surgery to create one.

Devan Merck was just 12 years old when she found out she had no vagina. She was diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-K ster-Hauser syndrome meaning she had no vaginal canal, a malformed uterus and no cervix.

But she recently discovered she had working ovaries - and now hopes to have her own child via surrogate. Surgeons created a 'man-made' vagina using skin taken from the 23-year-old’s bottom - allowing her to have sex and lead a normal life.

"I had a thick layer of skin that covered my vaginal opening that they had to cut open and then they took skin from my bottom and placed it inside of me."

The skin was rolled up and inserted into the newly created opening to form a vaginal canal.

For several months Devan had to wear a foam insert inside her vagina to stop the newly created vaginal walls from fusing back together.

She told how she was bullied at school and how scared she was to open up to boyfriends because she didn't know what they would think of her.

She finally found happiness with her husband of 5 years, Trent and they are both looking forward to have their own biological child through surrogate by December 2017.