The desire to look good in yoga pants and swim wear is reported to have fuelled rise in the number of women opting to have ‘designer vagina’ surgery, plastic surgeons have revealed.
Across Europe and America, it is reported that girls as young as 16, to women in their 70s, more than ever are choosing to undergo cosmetic surgery to alter the appearance of their genitals.
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has recorded a significant increase in the number of tissue removal and re-structuring operations – a staggering 49 per cent rise in one year, from 2013 to 2014.
Labiaplasty is an operation performed on the labia, or ‘lips’ surrounding the vagina. The surgery can be performed on the labia major – the outer, larger vaginal lips – or the labia minor – the smaller, internal vaginal lips.
The procedure can change the size or shape of a woman’s labia, and most the surgery is performed to make the labia smaller, or to correct asymmetry.
Meanwhile, vaginoplasty is a procedure that aims to ‘tighten up’ a vagina that has become slack, often the result of childbirth or ageing.
