Woman who was born without a cervix OR a uterus and a 'shortened' vaginal canal lays bare 'bloody hell' of dealing with ultra-rare condition in new movie starring Maddie Ziegler - revealing how she had to 'DIY her own VAGINA' at 16 using 'medical dilators'

A woman who was born without a cervix or uterus and a 'shortened' vaginal canal has laid bare her 'bloody hell' horror story for a brand new movie starring Maddie Ziegler - recalling how she had to 'make a vagina' for herself at age 16 using 'medical dilators' before she would be able to have sex.

Molly McGlynn, who is originally from Montreal, Canada, but now lives in Los Angeles, California, was diagnosed with an extremely rare disorder known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome at age 16 - which meant she had 'normally-functioning ovaries and a female chromosome pattern' but an 'underdeveloped vagina and uterus,' according to PennMedicine.org.

She said she was forced to 'DIY her own vagina' using a 'terrifyingly intimidating' set of tools - something that left her in 'agonizing' pain and feeling like a 'partial woman' or someone who was 'half-formed' for years.

Despite struggling with immense 'shame' over her condition as a teen, Molly realized as an adult that her story was one that 'needed to be told' - and she has now done just that in her upcoming film Fitting In, which she wrote and directed.

According to Molly, the flick - which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and will release everywhere on February 2, 2024 - follows a 16-year-old girl named Lindy, played by Maddie, 21, whose 'burgeoning sexuality and new relationship are both jeopardized by the nuclear bomb diagnosis.'

'What begins as a perfunctory trip to the doctor to get birth control before having sex with her charming and horny boyfriend [played by D'Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai] turns into humiliating medical poking and prodding until she is at last told she has MRKH,' Molly told CBC about the movie. 

'Her plans to have sex are stalled, and she realizes she will never carry a child - something almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of at 16.'

Fitting In is similar to what Molly went through herself. While reflecting on her journey to the publication, she recalled being told by a doctor that she would have to 'fix' her vagina herself at home by using 'medical dilators' to lengthen her canal after she was diagnosed with the disease at age 16.

'Before I really knew what kind of sex I wanted to be having and with whom, I was handed a box of terrifyingly intimidating medical dilators and told to work on making a vagina,' she recalled. 

'Accommodating a man was the priority. What I wanted and needed could come later, I guess?'

Molly explained to the publication that she felt it was 'important' to 'capture the absolute anguish' that she felt throughout the process in the movie.

She recalled one the time that she had to have a 'pelvic exam in front of a group of residents,' and another 'traumatic' moment when her best friend found her 'dilators' and thought they were 'butt plugs.'

She also remembered 'a male doctor telling her to practice dilating with a boyfriend "unless he's well-endowed."'

But she also vowed that Fitting In will be 'more fun' than what she went through.

'I wanted audiences to be pulled into something they may otherwise be alienated by - and also because with time and wisdom, I cannot help but see the dark humor in all of this,' she explained. 'Nothing is funnier and sadder than a body.'

While chatting with the outlet, Molly explained that the condition not only forced her to endure a painful physical transformation, but she said it also sparked an emotional and mental change in her that ultimately lead to her wanting to challenge the gender norms and idealisms surrounding sex.

'The experience of this diagnosis prompted a barrage of questions that cannot fully be answered (at least by just me or by one film),' she said.

'How does a woman define herself in the absence of the parts and functions that we have so socially and culturally intertwined with womanhood?

'Is this condition intersex? What does it mean if I am or I'm not? Can (heterosexual) sex for women, in the absence of the potential for reproduction, become primarily about pleasure?

'[In the film] Lindy thinks that if she can just do this one thing, this unfixable conundrum will be solved. 

'But the conundrum of ourselves cannot be fixed. Bodies are not the problem; the impetus to fix them without a patient's physical and emotional autonomy is. 

'These are enormous questions that teenage Lindy cannot possibly answer but explores in the film through the process of trying to "fix" her body in order to have sex. 

'She finds herself sometimes weaponizing her sexuality in order to feel "normal" or seen. Lindy doesn't solve all of these questions in the film. How could she? She's only 16.'

Molly graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, with a degree in film studies before she headed to Humber College in Toronto, where she got a graduate certificate in television writing and production.

After finishing school, she started off by making a series of short films before she made her feature directorial debut with the film Mary Goes Round in 2017, which starred Aya Cash and Sara Waisglass. 

In the end, Molly insisted that Fitting In isn't just for people who suffer from MRKH, but rather, anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong due to their body.

'This film is for everyone who has ever felt like their existence was a problem to be solved or who never felt like they fit into the suffocating boxes the world wants to package us in,' she concluded. 

'At one time, I so deeply wanted to be in that box - to be perfectly unnoticeable - but that time is thankfully over. 

'I will no longer contort myself to fit any space the world asks me to be. I am both, and neither. And I am free.'

While talking to the Daily Texan, Dance Moms alum Maddie opened up about taking on the 'extremely personal role.'

'This role is extremely personal not just to me, but to Molly, and I want us to do her justice,' she said. 

'There was a lot of prep that went into it. I’m so lucky I had Molly to lean on, and it was really a trusting bond we had. From there, we just flew together.'

Molly called it a 'dream' working with Maddie and watching her vision come to life on screen. 

'It’s really a dream. It’s based on my life, so I definitely had the whole vision in mind, but at the same time it is fiction,' she dished. 

'When you bring on a cast, they also make it their own as well. When you’re shooting it, you sort of see it evolve from what was in your head into something different and totally beautiful. 

'I really think that filmmaking is a community and team effort. I brought the idea, but it’s evolved into what it is [now], which is an act of love.