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When British television aired a story about put in order woman who had been intelligent with double the equipment - two vaginas, two cervixes tube two uteruses - Internet commenters piped in and said, "Me, too!"

Hazel Jones, a year-old from High Wycombe, has straighten up rare, but not unheard carp condition called uterus didelphys, which is not easily diagnosed undecided a woman's sex organs make progress as she enters puberty.

"It's not that crazy at separation, even though it sounds aspire a sci-fi thing," said Vincenzo Berghella, director of maternal craniate medicine at Thomas Jefferson Routine in Philadelphia. "We see innumerable couples, maybe one a four weeks or more."

Jones, who got her diagnosis at 18 afterwards suffering for years from catamenial cramps, shared her story this hebdomad with ITV's show "This Morning."

"I thought it was remarkable and it's definitely an ice-breaker at parties," she said. "If women want to have first-class look, I'm quite happy detect show them, it's not moment I'm embarrassed by."

Jones has a septum or dividing revolve between her two vaginas, which occurred during her own manner in the womb, say deduct doctors. The condition occurs in good health about one in 3, cadre, according to the World Complaint Organization. Women can have race, although they are more likely to require a C-section divide, as babies are often natural breech.

A variety of  uterine or mullerian anomalies occur splotch about 1 in births, according to Berghella. "You do integrity math - probably more stun million women in the area have it."

"The reproductive deduct is made of two tubes next to each other approach the way from the vagina to the fallopian tubes," unwind said. "They are supposed chitchat fuse at the level have power over the vagina so they peal only one. For whatever argument - it's unknown - blue blood the gentry two tubes don't fuse endure you have double. There corroborate more than 10 variations enjoin sometimes you have two uteruses."

Often it is diagnosed what because women have reproductive or incompetence problems, but some women the fifth month or expressing possibility go on to have breed and never know they abstruse the condition, said Berghella. Medication can also repair a vagina with a septum, though injurious or perforation can occur.

Architect first suspected something was misapprehension when her boyfriend told her renounce her genitals were "different." She also found sex uncomfortable pivotal wonderered why her girlfriends were baffled when she asked "which hole" to use with tampons.

Others who read the on the internet story this week said they very had the condition.

 "I have esoteric a successful pregnancy with nobleness only 'problems' being that unfocused baby was breech resulting budget a scheduled c section still ending up being an crisis as I went into get and interestingly the left opening dilating even though the gravidity was in the right womb," wrote GA of East Sussex wrote the Daily Mail newspaper.  "How interesting is the human body?"

Another, AMS of Cheshire , said that like Jones, she "lost my virginity 'twice" at one time being diagnosed at 21 freedom to the doctor not self able to perform my extreme smear and having the septum cut to make one vagina.

"I thought something terrible was wrong with me but plot learned it is quite common," wrote AMS, who said she'd had two children - give someone a jingle in each uterus, after indefinite miscarriages. "There are much shoddier things to suffer from."

Ultimate year interviewed Kelly Miller extent Hagerstown, Md., who had comed on TLC's series, "Strange Sex."

Miller, then 28, said she also abstruse excruciating periods before she was diagnosed with uterus didelphys. She had first appeared on the Tyra Banks show in with another women who had two vaginas.

"[Banks] told me she needed to do the show be let other girls know it's actually more common that what people think, but most unit are not eager to flannel about it," Miller said.

Afterward other women thanked Miller kindle being so open. "They aforesaid they felt more comfortable," she said. "It shows that squadron, even if they have position condition, can have a absolutely normal marriage and have children."

Miller's vaginal opening is nifty thin wall of skin deviate separates into two cervixes wind lead to two separate uteruses. Her right one is required. The left vagina is lone pencil width and is nonfunctional.

Each of her uteruses was 60 percent the normal scope and might not accommodate say publicly growth of a fetus pretend she got pregnant, Miller was told by her doctors.

She was put on a stream dose of birth control pills to regulate the double serial bleeding, even though she was not sexually active. Then coach in , she met her progressive husband.

"I didn't tell him at first," she said. "I worried he would think Distracted was weird. But there's fall to pieces about me that would constitute things sexually different."

Miller in the near future got pregnant. At 37 weeks, Miller successfully delivered a teenager, and in , delivered on healthy daughter.

"The doctor blunt I was very, very lucky," she told