The woman discovers she has two vaginas while giving birth

For twenty-five years, Brittany Jacobs had no idea she had two vaginas, until she went to work.

“Oh, love, you have two vaginas, two cervix and two uterus,” a nurse finally told her as Jacobs was in the process of giving birth to her first child, the 26-year-old who explained in a viral video TikTok which has accumulated more than 2.7 million views.

Although Jacobs did not realize that he had a double anatomy, he had noticed that something was not working in his lower regions, where he had first observed as a young man that he had two openings. “I always believed it was my hymen and as I grew older I thought it was very hard and maybe someday it would break,” he told BuzzFeed.

He also had another sign that his body was unique. Although he considered himself “very pain tolerant,” he always had exciting periods that were “so bad I would cry,” he said in the video. Jacobs posted the revelation in response to another TikTok user’s quick clip asking, “What did a doctor completely ignore you when something went wrong?”

He had bled the tampons in a few minutes, the sex was hurting and the menstrual cramps were debilitating, but the doctors never told him it was any different, so he accepted the discomfort as part of life.

Really, though, their problems were probably all symptoms of having what is called didelphys of the uterus, or double uterus, which is not such a rare fact.

“Basically, all gynecologists who get old see some patients with their lives,” Yale University clinical professor Dr. Mary Jane Minkin told BuzzFeed. “My message that they bring me home is that you’re not a monster, that you’re not weird, and by definition, if I’ve seen something a few times, it’s not weird.”