Stretch Marks

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• 1. After seeing this makes me not feel so bad about my stretch marks, but also a little sad when the boyfriend and i get into a fight he will say something bad about my stretch marks and it hurts a whole lot.... The thing here is he has them too!!!

  Posted at 8:04PM on 13th 2009 by Cinda

• 2. Just a note to the teens looking at this messageboard. While I can't stress enough that our self esteem should never depend on what men, or anyone else, think of us, I know that 'what men think' is a large concern for most women - young women in particular - and want to reassure whoever is reading that it is a very rare man indeed who would pay any attention whatsoever to your stretchmarks. My husband thinks that I'm the best thing since sliced bread and I have loads. I don't have a single friend who doesn't have any and I've never met a single women who's boyfriend or husband has ever said anything negative about them. Men know that women have stretch marks! And good men love them because they are part of what makes a woman a woman! Can I get an Amen? :-)

  Posted at 2:24PM on 10th 2009 by Laura Webb

• 3. Most girls and women have stretch marks (70 percent of teenage girls get them and 90 percent of pregnant women). STRETCH MARKS ARE COMPLETELY NORMAL! The author of the comments which go along with these photographs is a mysogynist and an idiot and if I ever get to meet him/her I would very much enjoy punching them in the nose. It disgusts me that such obvious hate and ignorance is being given space on a respected site, but it doesn't surprise me. I am sick of women being made to feel inadaquate by this widespread insistance that they match up to the ridiculously abnormal pictures on film and in magazines. As far as I'm concerned, to say that a women can't be beautiful and have stretch marks is eqivalent to saying that a man can't be handsome and have eyebrows. It's absurd.

  Posted at 2:20PM on 10th 2009 by Laura Webb

• 4. Thank you, desperate, talentless, uneducated money chasers at TMZ.

  Posted at 7:49AM on 6th 2009 by Sabrina D'Amico

• 5. #14's comment is so perfect! But the last laugh's on them as these photo's remind us that there's no shame in having physical flaw's. There IS shame ,however, in being a verbally abusive jerk.

  Posted at 9:25PM on 19th 2009 by beth

• 6. So, what's so wrong with these women? They ARE absolutely beautiful!

  Posted at 12:48AM on 17th 2009 by Rhianna

• 7. I agree with every single person who commented this. I am a teenager, and I have gotten a lot taller since last year, and i just noticed this year of stretch marks on my thighs. I feel embarrassed about them. And this makes me feel a little more normal, but it seems that all the people i know my age are flawless and I feel ashamed. It shouldn't be like this. I am not perfect, and I hate the feeling that i should be. Thank you, TMZ for making me a little more self-conscious. Ugh.

  Posted at 1:27AM on 11th 2009 by Sha

• 8. The captions to these pictures are horribly insulting. I am 15 and I grew 6 inches in one year. Because of this I have stretch marks on my hips and butt. I am already insecure about them enough, but pics and comments like TMZ makes about it are horrible. They are not only making the celebs feel bad, but also every girl like me who has stretch marks and despises them enough already.

  Posted at 10:39PM on 2nd 2009 by embarassed

• 9. my stretch marks make me look like I got into a fight with Tony the Tiger and lost. That's life I guess.

  Posted at 11:24AM on 24th 2009 by rian

• 10. I have stretch marks and im very embarassed about them. Because I woudln't mind having them on places like my stomach or back because i know you get them during purberty but I have them all on my arms and all over by stomach and back. It like very bad where i cant wear tank tops and sleeveless dresses. And when i see my friends with tank tops and when i go into the store and people say wear this you have the body and would look good but they dont know i wouldnt. IM A TEENAGER JUST 16. when i feel like i should be enjoying life i get very scared or embarassed about thinking about having sex in the future. My my dream is to get a laser surgery to remove them the most i can.

  Posted at 1:50AM on 21st 2009 by sharde'

• 11. THANK GOD. So nice to see celebs are not perfect.

  Posted at 8:18PM on 17th 2009 by Mia

• 12. I will NEVER watch TMZ again. I can't believe the comments on these pictures! There are so many girls with stretch marks that are self conscious of their bodies because of them. These comments do nothing but make them feel like there is something wrong with stretch marks. They are natural. I am grateful for every stretch mark on my mother’s stomach. TMZ you are so pathetic.

  Posted at 1:53PM on 5th 2009 by c

• 13. Ha... It's really not that big of a deal. Most women have stretch marks somewhere on their body...from rapid weight gain/loss,puberty,or pregnancy. All those pictures we see on the covers of magazines are airbrushed to extreme!So they look perfect,but in reality they aren't...nobody is. I'd never noticed that Salma Hayek had them on her breasts.That's news.

  Posted at 2:22AM on 20th 2009 by Syd

• 14. I love to see these pictures! I have horrible stretch marks now and Im very self-concious of them and to see these famous women wearing beautiful clothing and letting there stretchmarks be seen and NOT CARING makes me feel better about myself! Im glad Cindy Crawford is wearing a two piece because it shows the world that she is human, she does get stretchmarks like everyone else, no one is perfect and that she doesnt care if her tummy isnt what everyone expects as long as she is having fun on the beach. THANK YOU TMZ. of course the captions you post arent the NICEST but I take them more like jokes rather than being serious. So thank you for making me feel better about myself.

  Posted at 12:13AM on 9th 2009 by Amanda

• 15. I think it's funny that people seem shocked that TMZ would do this. These are people who gossip for a living... nothing from them would surprise me. As far as the actual pictures go, I love them. All of these women (except Amy Winehouse) are gorgeous and talented, and they have real body "issues" like everyone else. As far as the captions go, that's just normal TMZ trash, so whatever.

  Posted at 3:23PM on 31st 2009 by Amber