large labia minora - is it normal?

HI,IAM A 15 YR OLD FEMALE.I HAVE A LARGE LABIA AS WELL AS U OTHER GIRLS OUT THERE! I FIRST DISCOVERED MINE WHEN I WAS 12-13 I WAS REALLY ASHAMMED OF IT CAUSE IT WAS UGLY TO ME.NOW ,I HAVE A BOYFRIEND IVE BEEN WITH FOR 2YRS AND I DIDNT WANA SHOW HIM SO I HID IT WHEN WE HAD SEX OR LEFT THE LIGHTS OFF BUT ONE DAY I WAS TIRED OF HIDDING IT SO I OPENED MY LEGS& HE LOVES IT.WE HAVE SEX/ORAL AND HE LIKES TO PLAY WITH IT. SO TO THE GIRLS THAT HAS IT AND WANTS SURGERY ITS COST ALOT OF $$$ AND JUST TO LET U KNOW ITS (NORMAL..SO NORMAL) IF HE DOESNT ACCEPT IT HE DOESNT DESRVES U...ITS NOT A FLAW IT IS APART OF BEING A FEMALE. IF A GUY EVER ASKES U WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT JUST ASK THE ASS WHY DOES HIS BALLS HANG SO LOW! LOL AND TELL HIM IF HE CANT ACCEPT THAT THEN HE DOESNT DESRVES U! BE CONFORABLE WITH UR SELF AND LOVE EVERY BIT OF WAT GOD GAVE U BCUZ URS DOESNT LOOK LIKE EVERYONE ELSES...UR DIFFERENT! :)

Hey, i'm also 16 and I have exactly the same problem! I really do hate it. I've never done anything with a boy because im afraid they will think im deformed or something haha. Ive even tried talking to my mom but she called me silly and said its normal, but I just dont feel it. I dont think people realise how it effects our confidence when we dont think were 'normal'. Everywhere you see girls with normal size labia's and it just makes you feel even worse.

Perhaps you should be worrying more about whether or not sex is a good idea at 16 years old rather than whether or not some kid, that you're probably not going to know in 2 years, is going to like the way your vagina looks. What has happened to the youth in this country? All innocence has been lost. Now instead of worrying about whether or not boys are going to like their hair or the dress they wear to homecoming, young girls are worried about whether or not a guy's going to like their labia! Why don't you enjoy your youth and worry about having sexual intercourse when you're an adult and can handle things like pregnancy, STDs, and the emotional consequences of sex. And when you are 18 or 19, a reasonable age to start thinking about losing your virginity, I'm sure your confidence in your body image will have improved so you won't care what guys think.

Trust me girls, if a man says a bad comment about the way your vagina looks, he isn't worth it. The boy i'm currently with told me he prefered smaller labia majora but I have slightly bigger ones than average and he says they are beautiful and that i'm beautiful.
Only consider surgery if you are SURE - it can really damage your sensitivity down there and honestly, for most guys it isnt worth it.
Be proud of who you are, what you look like and what you are about. I wouldn't let any ignorant men put me down for the way I look 'down there'.

man i have huge ones! i hate it! i look deformed in my panties and im afraid when i get older my boyfriend will get grossed out! but mine are the same size. its like having balls that got poped!!!!! i hate them i want them gone!!!! :x [b

i am a 15 year old girl, with the same problem (larger labia). I first discovered it this year because my friends mentioned it because they all have smaller labia. they constantly make fun of me for it! They've made nicknames for it, and call it disgusting. It honestly makes me hate myself. Im so ashamed of it, its on my mind constantly. I feel like im the only person with this problem. Even when people compliment me i just think to myself if they knew about my labia they would be disgusted and would never talk to me again. (i know dramatic) but thats just how i feel about it. I've confronted my mom about it and i even went to my doctors. but she just told me that its normal and its not a good idea to get surgery done on it because of scar tissue, and she said if someone truly loves you they wont care about how you look. But honestly i think i can speak for every girl out there with this problem that, that statement is completely ***edited by moderator*** ** inappropriate posting** because what if i want to have sexual experiences with someone who doesn't love me? While all of my friends have a good time with their boyfriends i feel limited and unlucky that i have this problem....it makes me so depressed.

So what have your boyfriends said about your wonderful large labia?
How many have refused to touch you?
I bet they still want to play on your playground. 8-|

Ladies I beg of you not to disfigure yourselves with surgery. I personally love the gift of a large labia. To me there is nothing more beautiful in the world. You will truly appreciate finding the man that loves your!!!

I am 15 and have large labia... i know there is a surgery but after you need 4-6 weeks of doing nothing and i couldn't take 

Hi iam 13~~ and ever scence i was little i have had large labia and wehn i come to the point when i show it to my boyfriend there gunna freak even my mom thinks it weird all my family has there lips in but mine r out >:( why was i born like this i hate it and wehn i were a bathing suite u can see it and it looks like i have a xcamele toe please respon!

i have always hade big lips iam 13 and iam self consious of what my boyfirend will think? even my mom thinks its weird all my family has inner lips and iam spanish ...... why does this happen >:( is it a big deal to guyes !

Hi. I had labiaplasty just over a year ago and for the past year I haven't been able to walk for longer than an hour a day without experiencing pain and everything going inflamed and blister-y. I can't exercise, have sex or go out much with my friends. I had surgery again a month ago and I still cannot walk for longer than 10 minutes without being in a lot of pain. Last time I walked for 15 minutes, the scars inflamed and something that looked like a blister had appeared. So I've literally been in bed for a month and it's driving me crazy. Before you have surgery, you never think you'll be the one that it goes wrong for. I'm a healthy 22 year old and I went to one of the best surgeons there is in America. Anyone that isn't completely completely desperate to have surgery, don't do it. If you feel like you've just been influenced by the media and porn images or boys, don't do it. It can ruin your life. It's crazy but I can't regret it because I know I couldn't have enjoyed my life with my old labia... I felt disgusting and not sexy, so uncomfortable and couldn't be intimate with anyone. I hate it when journalists, especially female journalists, criticise woman for having this surgery, pisses me off so much, because you cannot understand what it's like unless you've had large labia. But if you feel there's any way you don't have to have the surgery i.e. maybe trying therapy first, I wouldn't do it. I feel like my life is ruined... I've just finished University and I can't get a job because I can't hardly walk, I can't go out, I can't exercise, I can't have a relationship. And from not doing any exercise for over a year and lying in bed much of the time, the rest of my body looks awful and I used to be alright with it. Don't do it unless you haveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee to! Although it looks alright, it definitely doesn't feel alright, and neither me or my surgeon knows what's wrong.

how long are you saying  "large labia" are mine hang down about an inch from my outer lips and im not sure if this is normal!!??!! guys please give your opinions too!!!

IT's normal.  It really is.  Mine started to do this when i was around the age of 11-12 before i even started thinking about sex.  It's just the way our bodies grow.  Not all of us have the perfect fat labia majora and short labia minora.  It's just the luck of the draw i suppose.  I was the same way when i got to the age where i was wanting to fool around with my boyfriend.  I also have stretchmarks on my boobs too because they grew so fast.  i was wearing a full B cup while i was in 6th grade and i only weighed about 100lbs so i wasn't by no means a big girl.  All of it really embarrassed me, and my boyfriend was starting to get a little aggrevated cause he would let me do things to him but i wouldn't let him do things to me.  One day we got into a little argument about why i wouldn't let him touch me and i blew up.  I was afraid of what he would think about the way i looked, i was 15 at this time.  He looked at me like i was crazy LOL.  He just stared at me while i was all red faced and huffing and puffing.  After i was cooled off it was quiet for a while, he never saw me mad like that.  So we just sat there.  He then says to me "I don't care about any of the things you just blew up over.  I just want to touch you and make you feel good like you do me, since you are my first.  We have been together for almost a year now and i think it's quiet obvious that i love you so none of that makes a difference to me.  So when you are ready to let me touch you, let me because i would really like to."  So after that, we watched Tv till he went home.  We eneded having sex for the first time completely naked about 2 weeks later and it was fantastic.  I mean it was as great as two kids having sex for the first time could be i suppose.  It wasn't painful at all, it was more uncomfortable for the first minute when he put himself inside me, but instead of moving right away we just layed still till my body adjusted around him and the rest was history.  I was still scared and nervous about the way i looked but he was right when he said he didn't care.  He was a great guy.  Even to this day he is still a great guy.  We are 26 now.  The only way to get rid of it is by surgery anyway so just embrace it.

Think about it really.  Guys feel the same way when there is something going on down there when their shouldn't be.  For example, a crooked penis or a small one.  Don't think that for one minute that a guy with a small penis doesn't notice his is smaller compared to the ones they see in magazines or on porn and they get self conscience too.  But if they have a chance to get laid or even orally fixed........those pants are coming down.  You can't help the way your body is made without money and a plastic surgeon.     

I have seen where other women have experienced this and one said she went out on a whim and had botox done on her labia minora and it worked. each treatment helps them get better. It must have something to do with all the never endings that run through them. Once they are cut, it's like a hang nail or paper cut to where they don't hurt unless messed with. She said her and her husband would only have sex like once every 3 weeks vaginally because it felt like he was slicing her open once he entered her, then if he didn't cum in less than tree minutes, he would have to pull out and she wouldn finish him off with her mouth or hand. But after the botox things are much much better for them. She said she noticed a big difference right away cause when she stood up she didn't have the burning feeling when she walked and when her and her husband had sex she went way longer than 3 minutes and was able to enjoy it with no swelling afterwards.