Stretch marks grossing people out?  Have people become pussies as of late?   People have scars, people have down syndrome, people have psoriasis, people have missing limbs or missing eyes or broken teeth... No one with half a brain gives a damn because:  It's not your fault. It says nothing about your self-discipline, self-respect and worth.  The body possitive movement was born for this stuff. "Oh, look, a woman who endured 9 months of physical exertion and an ending that implies crossing one of the highest pain thresholds known to mankind, to bring a new life to eath, I'm going to insult her because she was so healthy when she got pregnant her body didn't have time to stretch enough". Any person with half a brain would consider the utterer of such an idiocy as a sub-human creature. Before the lardballs hijacked the body possitive movement, this is what it was meant for. For people who didn't look as when they were 18, but for reasons that were not under their control and not their fault. I've never heard anyone criticise a woman for her pregnancy stretch marks, but I sure as hell would call on the idiot who dared. Wear your bikini proudly. No one is grossed out by stretch marks. No one should criticise scars gotten on hard fights won.  Seriously... it pisses me off that you even considered you had to hide those scars. If the body possitive movement wasn't focusing on defending bad decisions, you shouldn't even have considered. It would be akin to hiding your face when you're 60 because it's wrinkled. If it's not your fault, there's nothing to be ashamed of.