Sometimes it overlaps the second toe, or the second toe overlaps it. Half of American women have a bunion. The reason is partly due to women's desire to wear fashionable high-heel shoes with a narrow front that squeezes the toes. Almost no woman who lives is a shoeless society has a bunion. Shoes do not bear the sole culpability.
Genes have their hands in bunion formation.
I bet you find bunions. I've made this a woman's fate. Men get bunions too, but women with bunions outnumber men by a factor of 9 to 1. Your wife can control pain by wearing shoes with enough width to comfortably accommodate her toes and her bunions. Protective pads, found in all pharmacies, prevent bunion irritation and bunion enlargement.