February 2018

by: Christine Fellingham

She didn’t tell her co-workers and she won’t use her last name, but twenty-one-year-old Erin is one of over 12,000 women who had cosxmetic surgery last year to reduce and reshape their labia. And she can’t wait to talk about it.

“I would do it a million times again,” says Erin, a twenty-one-year-old local woman who had a labiaplasty performed by Dr. Jule Samuels, a St. Matthews cosmetic surgeon, last October. “It first became a problem in fifth grade,” she says. “My doctor referred me to a gynecologist because I had enlarged labia that might have been the side effect of a medication. No one could ever do anything for me.”