A woman who was born without reproductive organs - a womb, cervix and a vagina only found out about her condition at the age of 17, according to the Daily Mail.
Jacqui Beck was diagnosed after she informed her general physician that she has not yet had her periods. Tests revealed that she suffered from MRKH, a type of condition that affects on in every 5,000 women. Beck has ovaries but no womb, cervix or vaginal opening. In place of her vagina is an ident that makes it appear like she has one.
Now 19, Beck finds out about the real truth that she wouldn't be able to have sex or carry a child. "I'd never considered myself different from other women and the news was so shocking. I couldn't believe what I was hearing," she said. Women who are diagnosed with the condition look completely normal externally.
"I was sure the doctor had got it wrong but when she explained that was why I wasn't having periods, it all started to make sense. She explained that I would never be able to carry a child and might have to have surgery before I could have sex. I left the doctors in tears. I would never know what it was like to give birth, be pregnant, or have a period. All these things I had imagined doing suddenly got erased from my future. I was really angry and felt like I wasn't a real woman anymore," she explained.
The National Institutes of Health claims that MRKH or Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome affects one in every 4,500 newborn girls. The condition mainly affects the reproductive system and results to having a vagina and uterus that is either underdeveloped or completely absent, according to the Huffington Post.
