29-year-old Kenyan lady identified as Julian Peter was totally distraught on the day she found out she was born without a vagina.
Speaking with BBC’s Anne Ngugi, Julian revealed that she was born with the condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), where you have no womb or vagina, and you can also find yourself with just one kidney.
Kenyan lady, Julian Peter born without a vagina
A woman who has MRKH can never get periods.
I don’t have a uterus, so I’ve never had periods. This is the normal that I know, I don’t feel bad about it. People have different feelings about who I am. They can say whatever they want. Someone told me that I should go somewhere to be prayed for” she said
She went further to say
Another person said that because I come from Ukambani [a region that is stereotypically linked to witchcraft] then my grandmother had something to do with this.
They can say whatever they want to but what really matters is how I take it. If I were to listen to them it would start affecting me, and I would start thinking that what they were saying was true.
I discovered I had the syndrome when I was a 17-year-old school student.
I went to hospital as I had problem with my legs, which were swollen. The first thing the doctor asked me was when I last had my period. I had never had one.
