LEAVE V ALONE

Does keeping your vagina healthy involve vitamin gummies? Doctors, nutritionists, and wellness entrepreneurs decode the latest trend on the wellness bandwagon

- SAMREEN TUNGEKAR

In this popular TV show, The Bold Type, Jane gets a 'vagina facial', which gives her the worst yeast infection ever, and that too right before she has to sit on a panel for women on wellness. This triggers her to bring up her painful discomfort, and how we expect the vagina to 'smell like a flower', and not just, well, like a vagina. In the real world, we all remember Gwyneth Paltrow's jade eggs for vaginas, which, the platform claimed, could do everything from fixing your hormone levels to helping with bladder control. This of course, was contested by medical professionals, who called it out for being 'dangerous'.