Kind of a silly question, but what did your stretch marks look like before surgery. I've got a wide array of white and faded to purple to angry red. It's kind of like a vicious cycle... Lose weight, then gain it back and more when I stop the diet and get MORE stretch marks. Can't wait to get off this train...

It runs in my family, my first popped out when I was 5ft5in 110lbs and 11 years old, so you don't necessarily need to be obese to get them. I'm sorry to say I passed them down to all 3 of my children, developed at about same age on the outside of both hips. Between gaining and losing weight, carrying 3 9lb babies non of which laid the same way, my tummy looks like the roadmap of Indianapolis with all the county roads marked. I actually have an abdomen 5 little slits would only be enhancing. I heard someone was going to have ivy leaves tatooed to join the scars together, I couldn't do it. My skin is in too badly stretch marked, I'm not quite that frisky and most of all I couldn't afford it. Just think how much that would cost!

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I have stretch marks on top of stretch marks. I have dark ones to light ones. I have them all over, I am a baby zebra with my stripes.

My hips and arms are light now. My stomach has a mixture of light and dark. My back is dark but that is because they are new. I do use Palmer's Cocoa Butter now.

@sleeve1stFitNext can you believe this? I'm allergic to chocolate so I can't use Palmer's Cocoa Butter. When I was carrying baby#2 something went weird with,my body and I developed off-beat allergies, chocolate being one of them. So I'm,left with Vitamin E. Used to,pop one of those little capsule type pills open. When I feel sorry for myself and I do sometimes I remember my skin such as it is , well it's still ntact . I could have flesh eating bacteria and losing big chunks of myself.

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@frust8 shea butter - not related to cocoa butter, I buy it in bulk organic. Really great for dry feet, take a pea size and rub it in your hands until warmed up and slather into your skin. There are recipes online for mixing it with some other oils and fragrances but I just keep mine plain.

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@frust8 Oh noo. I wish I was allergic to chocolate. That is my Everest. Dark Chocolate and Milk. Omg.

I mean yeah, it could be worst than stretch marks. Hey, those are your tiger stripes and wear them proudly. You bought cubs into this world and had to carry them. Those are mommy marks. You get respect for those.

@sosewsue61 ---girl you've come through with so many good hints, swear I hadn't thought of Shea butter. I will get myself some.

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