- Ally Hensley, the ‘Bridget Jones of the vagina world’ announces new book, VAGINA UNCENSORED: A Memoir of Missing Parts
- The global MRKH advocate’s tell-all memoir uncovers the truth of what it means to be born female without a vagina – a condition affecting one in 5,000
- The book tackles the complex traumas of ‘vagina making’, sex and what it means to be born different, posing the question: what really makes a woman?
- Priced at, £12.99 (Paperback) and £5.99 (eBook), VAGINA UNCENSORED: A Memoir of Missing Parts will be available to pre-order eBook from Amazon here, with Paperback available on 26th October, 2024.
Ally Hensley, acclaimed writer, speaker, and global MRKH advocate, has announced the launch of her debut memoir, VAGINA UNCENSORED: A Memoir of Missing Parts.
Combining raw honesty and unflinching courage, the book sees Hensley delve into the depths of her personal experience with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome (MRKH), a rare congenital condition that affects over 10,000 British women, interrupting the development of the female reproductive system, causing the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent.
Ally spent her life never quite fitting in, anywhere. Ally tried everything to understand her obsession with trying to prove her womanhood. However, it wasn’t something she, or anyone else, could explain.
Whilst she craved the ‘typical’ experiences aligned to becoming a woman; periods, pregnancy and giving birth — sex was her downfall.
Because sex she could do. Enter (ahem), vagina.
What school didn’t teach her was, if she couldn’t have sex, or fall pregnant, what kind of woman could she ever be? Like every twenty-something, Ally sought solace in boys, bingeing, and booze – the ultimate escape plan – until it wasn’t!
Meta has silenced thousands of sex-positive accounts in recent years. Sexual wellness brands, sex educators, activists, and sex workers have fallen foul to censorship. Instagram continues to suspend hundreds of high-profile accounts, cutting people off from the communities that keep them safe. Not only is social media their main source of ethical income, but this social media ‘cancel culture’ is sending one terrifying message to the world: ‘girls and women, your body is wrong.
With online censorship shaming the masses, are we in turn, shadow-banning ourselves?
After what Ally describes as, “essentially losing her virginity with herself and plastic tubes”, she was adamant she’d take it for a decade-long road test. Sexed up and still infertile, there was only one thing Ally had one thing in mind: make her vagina become her biggest career break yet!
But she was desperate to wake up to a new, and different purpose: to create a global movement in women’s health and happiness. Healed and inspired, Ally was finally ready.
Ally Hensley, author, said: At sixteen, my dreams of womanhood were shattered by a shocking diagnosis: I was born without a uterus or vagina. Vagina Uncensored is a raw, inspiring memoir that chronicles my journey through grief, bodily trauma and self-discovery and challenges our understanding of what it means to be a woman.
For further information or to request an interview with Ally Hensley at email alisonhensley@gmail.com
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