Beyond the extensive airbrushing magazine photos undergo, the hard truth is that even if you started with a nice, tight package, child birthing changes everything. Once you push a couple of 8-10 pound babies through the birth canal, things down there won't look the same. Some women’s vaginas sag so much that they complain of discomfort while walking.
Not surprisingly, age is another culprit. You don’t expect to look like the pouty-lipped young things in Clearasil ads when you’re 45, right? Well, just as the lips around your mouth can thin with age, so can the ones in your southern hemisphere.
Women lose fat in that area, the elasticity and tone of the tissue decreases and the inner vaginal lips droop.
But women can recapture the vaginas of their youth with labiaplasty (trimming up the inner lips) and/or perineoplasty (tightening the vaginal opening). Click here to read more on genital surgery.
Some “have their vaginas done” because vaginal changes cause medical problems or make sex uncomfortable, but 85% of are worried about aesthetics. They’ve seen the men’s magazines and feel their vulvas aren’t pretty.
