Meet the women who were born without a vagina and uterus

She was well into her teens and her period hadn’t yet arrived – but she was told she was just a late bloomer.

But by the time she was 17, Tk Kennedy learnt the truth: she has a condition that means she’ll never have children and sex would always be painful unless she underwent a gruelling treatment.

Tk (20) was diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome – a condition that leaves the vagina and uterus underdeveloped or absent. She doesn’t have a womb and a cervix and part of her vagina is missing.