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TV model Talulah-Eve Brown wants to make history – as the first transgender woman to have a womb transplant.
The Britain’s Next Top Model star, 23, is planning to go under the knife for the operation to realise her dream of carrying her own child.
Talulah-Eve – who was the show’s first transgender contestant when she appeared on it last year – says: “I have reached out to doctors already.
“I have my heart set on it 100%. I know it will be difficult but I am going to make it work.
“The opportunity to carry my own child, have it grow inside me and have that emotional connection for nine months is the biggest dream ever.”
The procedure has been tested in trials involving women without wombs in Sweden, where at least five babies have been born since 2014 after the participants received donor wombs.
And consultant gynaecologist Richard Smith has been pioneering the research in Britain.
The womb transplant op takes about six hours, with the organ coming from a donor who has died but whose heart has been kept beating so that the womb is healthy.
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Then an embryo can be implanted into the womb using IVF.
Medics believe it is also possible to successfully transplant a womb into a person born with male organs.
Ghent University Hospital’s Professor Steven Weyers – who is starting a womb transplant programme involving 20 women later this year – said he believed that transplants for people who were born male would happen in “maybe a decade”.
Before having gender reassignment