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Congratulations Jessica!!!

And TIL stretch marks are “warrior marks” or “earned stripes”?! 🙉 Like we’re in some fruitless war against aging so these are our credentials?!? Make it stop!

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It's very popular for moms to say this, that they earned their stripes by carrying babies, which is also dismissive to everyone who got stretch marks as a teen, or when they lost/gained weight, from an illness, or any other way not involving carrying babies.

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Stretch marks are signs of growth, no matter when or how they happened! And growth means living, and that’s all right with me!!!

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🙋‍♀️ to having stretch marks in every other way besides birthing babies

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