A woman has gone viral on TikTok after sharing her belly buttonless stomach on the social media platform.
In a video, the woman explained that she was left with no belly button after undergoing several surgeries when she was a baby.
She was born with an omphalocele meaning her organs were outside of her body when she was delivered.
She said: "Okay, so here's the explanation. I was born with what's called a giant omphalocele, which is like my organs were in a sack outside of my body.
"There's a Grey's Anatomy episode about it, so yeah.
"I'm not a doctor, but I know that I had multiple procedures.
"They had to rotate my intestines, move my heart and take out my appendix etc. and my belly button didn't survive that."
The woman said she is asked all the time about whether or not she had an umbilical cord.
She said: "I did have an umbilical cord when I was a baby, like in the whom. That's how I got fed. so for everyone being like how did you, that's how."
The woman then showed viewers the scar across her stomach, which she said has faded over time.
She said: "For people who can't see the scar, I have the beauty filter on, but there's the scar.
"It was a lot bigger when I was a baby because when they had to push my organs back in, which was kind of like in a bag and slowly like push it in, so I had like a huge scar, but I'm older now, and it's been a long time."
The condition is more common than you may think as many babies experience the same thing in the whom.
Dr Karan explained how an omphalocele occurs.
He said: "Around the tenth week of development, the liver and intestines can grow so rapidly they can poke out from the belly into the umbilical cord. Usually, this protrusion will pop back in.
"If it doesn't, it's known as an omphalocele, and the omphalocele occurs exactly where the belly buttons meant to be.
"When it's surgically repaired, the belly button usually disappears."
