Not Alone

For as long as I can remember, I was always conscious about my vagina. From a young age, my cousins and friends used to ask why my vagina 'looked like that'... Hearing my friends in our first year of varsity saying that if one had too much sex, your vagina will start looking weird. I used to laugh it off, while inside I was ashamed and belittled because I knew that wasn't the case, but couldn't say anything!

I didn't have sex until I was 21 - not that it was a problem - but I couldn't even explore. I always thought guys would laugh at me and find me weird. Thanks to your article 'I Decided To Have Labiaplasty' (September 2011), I realised I wasn't alone and I wasn't a weirdo after all and for the first time in years I looked at myself in the mirror naked, only to find the only thing weird about me was the shining and glowing of the happy me inside shining on the outside. For that, I will always be thankful to COSMO :)

You guys will never really realise how much help you've been to me and other girls out there of all ages. Every month, all year round, you continue to reinforce and validate how fun and fearless we all are in our different ways, shapes, sizes and colours :)

Author: Anonymous