{"id":51841,"date":"2023-10-30T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=51841"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:44:39","slug":"i-was-born-without-a-vagina-and-for-years-i-felt-like-a-freak-as-people-wondered-if-i-looked-like-barbie-down-there-heres-how-i-reclaimed-my-self-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/i-was-born-without-a-vagina-and-for-years-i-felt-like-a-freak-as-people-wondered-if-i-looked-like-barbie-down-there-heres-how-i-reclaimed-my-self-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"I was born without a vagina and for years I felt like a freak as people wondered if I &#8216;looked like Barbie down there&#8217;: Here&#8217;s how I reclaimed my self worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26712\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stiwomen-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stiwomen-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stiwomen-770x487.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stiwomen-500x316.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stiwomen-360x228.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stiwomen.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ally Hensley was a teenager when doctors revealed she had been born without a vagina. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/health\/article-12664737\/Samantha-X-Ally-Hensley-born-without-vagina-Mayer-Rokitansky.html?ito=push-notification&amp;ci=WWB_DHsVWT&amp;cri=ATQcbGtpaw&amp;si=zBqM0MhumZ2d&amp;xi=\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ally Hensley was a teenager when doctors revealed she had been born without a vagina. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/womens-health.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51842,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841\/revisions\/51842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}