Rapper/actor T.I. (Clifford Harris) said in an interview on the “Ladies Like Us” Apple podcast with Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham that he regularly accompanies his 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah Harris, to her gynecologist each year to “check her hymen” to make sure it is “still intact.”
The podcast host asked T.I if he has ever had ”the sex talk“ with his daughters, T.I. responded: ”Yes,” referring to his daughter who has recently started her freshman year of college.
“Not only have we had the conversation. We have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen.”
“Yes, I go with her,” T.I. said, “So we’ll go and sit down and the doctor will come and talk, and the doctor’s maintaining a high level of professionalism,”
Mr Harris continued, “He’s like, ‘Well, you know, sir, I have to, in order to share information’ — I’m like, ‘Deyjah, they want you to sign this, so we can share information. Is there anything you would not want me to know? Oh OK. See, doc? Ain’t no problem.'”
The hymen is a thin piece of mucosal tissue that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia, and is similar in structure to the vagina. The hymen may rip or tear the first time penetrative intercourse happens.
T.I.’s gynecologist reportedly told him that the hymen can also be broken by means other than sexual intercourse, giving examples of “bike riding, athletics, horseback riding and just other forms of athletic physical activity.”
T.I. said he told the gynecologist: “‘Look doc, she don’t ride no horses. She don’t ride no bike. She don’t play no sports. Just check the hymen please and give me back my results — expeditiously.’”