6. “Don’t you want them gone?”
I think a lot of people with stretch marks have wished — at least once — to banish those lines and go back to being stripe-free. It’s like anything else that appears on your body without your consent. I wasn’t always so chill about my freckles or the weird bumps that appear on my chin when my mouth is closed because my upper lip is too short, either. But no matter what the Internet promises, you usually can’t completely get rid of stretch marks entirely once you have them.