Australian Woman kick-starts a campaign to photograph 500 women's private parts to prove they are beautiful

An Australian woman who nearly had labiaplasty surgery on her Vagina after her former partner made her feel insecure, has started a campaign to photograph 500 women's private parts to prove they are beautiful. 

Ellie Eggwick, from Queensland's Sunshine Coast, said she felt so bad about her vagina that she had to inquire about labiaplasty. But after she met a doctor who advised her to do some research, she discovered she was perfectly normal. 

After the discovery, she was inspired to photograph more than 500 vaginas for a coffee table book  to prove that all vaginas are beautiful.

Something that is said in the bedroom with someone you are being affectionate with can affect you for the rest of your life, she told Sunshine Coast Daily. 

It has definitely stuck with me and is the reason why I am doing this project.

Woman kick-starts a campaign to photograph 500 women
Ms. Eggwick said her own insecurities began when she was a teenager.

As I had never seen another vulva, I had no idea, she wrote on her website.

All the thoughts and nightmares of a usual teenage girl went running wild through my brain - is my vagina weird?' Am I normal?'

Woman kick-starts a campaign to photograph 500 women
According to Eggwick, her insecurities prompted her to consider undergoing a labiaplasty, a form of surgery that reduces the outer folds of the female labia.