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15 Body Positive Ways to Celebrate Your Stretch Marks

Get ready to ditch that cover up, because these women will encourage you to let your tiger stripes roar
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Underwearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve
Don't you just love how underwear ads show off superthin, airbrushed bodies? Yeah, neither does this mom, who decided to appropriate the #MyCalvins campaign to share her version of a more realistic look at a woman in the designer skivvies. "We all have flaws and insecurities," she wrote on a now defunct blog post about overcoming her stretch mark insecurities. "Yet, we continue [to allow] the media to take what's ours and mold it into something that's unrealistic. Your body is yours. You have to live with it, so get used to it." We think we'll stick to Instas like DeRouen's over glossy billboards for now.

Image via @_ohbrenda_

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Bummin' Around
With big booties being #bodygoals for many a gal, you would think someone would make mention of the stretch marks often necessary to accommodate a burgeoning behind. Cue 'grammers like @dimples_fam, who keep it real with unretouched belfies.

Image via @dimples_fam

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Stretch Marked for Greatness
Have you retired your sleeveless tops because of your arm stretchies? This body positive blogger has a few words of advice for you: "Love yourself the way you want others to love you, stretch marks and all." We're hoping it doesn't take a stretch of the imagination (sorry, we had to) for you to get on-board with her optimistic outlook.

Image via @thecurvyjournal

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Boobs with Attitude
Until the fight to #freethenipple is won, women like @modern_monroe96 are here to remind us that said nipple is often stretch mark adjacent.

Image via @modern_monroe96

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Think Ink
Brazilian tattoo artist Rodolpho Torres uses ink to camouflage stretch marks, but women like Zoey Khumalo prefer tats that draw attention to rather than hide their tiger stripes.

Image via @zoey_khumalo

BY ROSE CURIEL | AUG 22, 2017 | SHARES
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