Are you sure I should steam...down there?

Badass’, ‘cool’ and ‘controversial’ are words usually applied to rock stars, rarely to women, and never before to a 57-year-old Canadian gynaecologist who specialises in the unglamorous-sounding field of vulvovaginal disorders and female pelvic pain.

But Dr Jen Gunter is all of the above: an experienced medic who advocates for women’s health, taking on the £4.4 trillion ‘wellness’ industry and its high priestess , whose lifestyle brand Goop Gunter calls ‘90 per cent quackatorium’. It’s a battle that’s led to one of Paltrow’s acolytes describing her as the ‘vaginal Antichrist’.

In the process, Gunter has amassed 359,000 followers on X/ and 232,000 on Instagram. She has a hugely popular (and hilarious) blog ‘The Vajenda’, two columns in The and has written two bestsellers: and . Her latest is

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