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Evelyn Miller, a 31-year-old Australian, is one of the rare personalities to confide in an anatomical particularity: the young woman has a didelphic uterus, that is to say double, but also two vaginas and two pairs of ovaries. A malformation which would however affect up to 2% of women.
Two vaginas, for two distinct “activities”
Evelyn Miller is a buzzworthy Australian model and porn content creator. And this, since she confessed a peculiarity, which she plays today: her body has two vaginas, but also two uteri and two pairs of ovaries. A malformation which nevertheless made her suffer in adolescence and her years as a young woman, causing pain during her menstruation and sexual intercourse. Diagnosed in 2011 with a uterus called didelphe, the young woman has now made up for it: she claims, in an interview for the Daily mail, to use her two vaginas for her online activity on the one hand and her life as a woman on the other.
The didelphic uterus, what is it?
Underneath this extraordinary story, however, hides a reality that affects about 2% of women. A didelphic or bicornuate uterus is a rare malformation of the uterus. Anatomically, the didelpheus uterus has a double form, so there are two of them. The vagina can be normal or double as well. The anomaly has its origin during the development of the fetus: when the female genital tract is still in the form of tubes called Müller’s ducts. These must then merge to form the uterus, cervix and vagina. But it happens that the fusion is carried out badly: the uterus then retains a double shape and the woman will also sometimes have two vaginas like Evelyn Miller.
However, this anomaly is not often detected before the woman’s sexual life or her desire to conceive, if the woman does not feel anything in particular. The didelphic uterus is usually identified by ultrasound or x-ray of the uterus (hysterography), following a gynecological examination, but can go undetected for years.
More difficult and high-risk pregnancies
However, this anomaly is responsible, in adolescents, for symptoms such as dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation), metrorrhagia (bleeding that occurs outside of menstruation or in the absence of menstruation after menopause or before puberty), pathological leucorrhoea (flow non-bloody vaginas)…
It also complicates having a child. For a pregnancy to take place, there must be enough space in the uterus as well as good uterine mucus. However, in the case of a didelphic uterus, the egg lacks space and has difficulty clinging to the mucous membrane.. Late miscarriages are common. When possible, an operation can be proposed. Another possible anomaly: knowing that each uterus is independent, some of these twin pregnancies can give rise to deliveries in two stages. In Bangladesh in April 2019, a woman gave birth to twins 26 days apart. In Kazahkstan, a young woman had even given birth to her second child three months after the first. An even rarer case reported a birth with twins with different skin colors.
For Evelyn Miller, who was able to have two children all the same, this malformation must now be better known: “My platform gave me the opportunity to raise awareness about the didelpheus uterus” she says in the face of the messages from many women that she says she receives. “I am so lucky to have this platform and encourage all young women to get checked out if they feel like something is wrong” she concludes.