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Where the hell are all their stretch marks?!
Ladies....I need to have a rant! I am SICK of seeing all these photos of celebs on their holidays over Christmas with their children, wearing bikinis - and not a bloody stretch mark on any of them! How the he'll do they ALL manage it?
Despite slathering myself in special stretch mark cream from the second I knew I was pregnant, I am literally covered in stretch marks! Every doctor or nurse that checked my tummy whilst I was pregnant, commented on my stretch marks, calling them my tiger stripes! I have hundreds, from the bottom of my tummy up to practically my boobs!
I'm now use to them, but shall never be wearing a bikini again! But I feel like I'm the only person who got them really bad!!!!
Despite slathering myself in special stretch mark cream from the second I knew I was pregnant, I am literally covered in stretch marks! Every doctor or nurse that checked my tummy whilst I was pregnant, commented on my stretch marks, calling them my tiger stripes! I have hundreds, from the bottom of my tummy up to practically my boobs!
I'm now use to them, but shall never be wearing a bikini again! But I feel like I'm the only person who got them really bad!!!!
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I don't believe that all the celebrities have the gene where you don't develop them tho, so there must be some procedure on the market that removes them at a cost!!!
I do remember seeing a picture of jerry hall in a bikini a few years back and she was covered in stretch marks but this was in a tabloid paper whereas if you saw her in a mag shoot all the marks would have been airbrushed away!! I'd say most of the celebs have been airbrushed for photographic work so their not "real" pictures!!!
Just look at your stretch marks as a map to your gorgeous baby!!!
I think your either prone to them or not and they prob have some sort of really exspensive treatments whilst pregnant and after that's so out of our league we haven't even heard of it.
I dont know how old your LO is but mine did fade so much it did take over a year and by that point they hardly even bothered me.
I agree that there's not much you can do to avoid stretch marks. If you're going to get the you're going to get them. I was religious with the creams during my first pg and still got loads and so didn't really bother with my 2nd and they didn't seem any worse than first time round tbh. I especially hate the ones on my ridiculously saggy boobs after bfing
One vague bit of hope is that they do fade over time so with a bit of a pre-emptive fake tan I will brave a bikini next summer
I don't know how the celebs get away with it, they are prob airbrushed but having said that none of the mums in my water babies class seem to have any stretch marks. Most of them wear bikinis and look amazing. I am very jealous.
My baby is only 16 weeks, so I know that they will fade, but they are pretty horrific! I'm not sure if it's the stretch marks, or the 2 extra stone that I'm carrying that's out me off going swimming haha!
Oh how I wish we could snap our fingers and just get our pre baby bodies back!
Not that at my local pool though. I hope I haven't put you off. Maybe I am just in a class of very very lucky mummies.
i got them with my first, and now they have extensions!!!
i have one strecth mark on my right boob from having my daughter. no others.
i put on weight slowly too, as people were always commenting on how small my bump was (baby was 8lb though), so maybe putting on weight slowly has something to do with it too as the skin isnt stretched so fast. i was about 10 and a half stone at 40 weeks, so only put on 2 stone and it was gradual.
the one good thing about having a premmie is less weight to lose after. i gave birth on the thursday night and went home on the sunday morning and was back in my pre pg jeans on the sunday. just 3 days after i was only 4lb heavier than when i got pg. by the time dd came home after 19 days in scbu i was half a stone lighter than when i got pg.