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1. 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? :-)

2. 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.

3. Thank you, desperate, talentless, uneducated money chasers at TMZ.

4. #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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. THANK GOD. So nice to see celebs are not perfect.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Oh no... not stretch marks... how NORMAL. TMZ everyone has them, stop making us feel bad! Does anyone on the TMZ crew have perfect skin? I've never met ANYONE who doesn't have them. I'm skinny, have had no babies, and guess what? I have them too.