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Stretch marks (aka stretchies, tiger stripes, or whatever you’ve named the faded or pigmented streaks on your skin) can be the result of a slew of different factors, but no matter if you got yours during a growth spurt in your teenage years, or you earned them during your pregnancy months, stretch marks are one hundred percent totally and completely normal. If you’ve chosen not to embrace them, you might be searching for ways to get rid of your stretch marks, in which case there’s something I think you should know: ya can’t.