A teen mum has hit back at nasty trolls who call her post-baby stretch marks "disgusting" by revealing them loud and proud on her TikTok.
"When people say ‘eww mum bods are disgusting’," the 18-year-old wrote in a video of her displaying her tummy which has dark stretch marks all over it.
But, brushing aside the trolls, she highlighted the marks as not blemishes, but as something that platforms the beauty of birth.
"Like b**ch my body grew a whole human and got cut open, what’s yours done?" she said.
In the comments section on the video, numerous people hailed the mum, called Jasmine, for being so open about her post-baby body, with one writing: "Omg they’re BEAUTIFUL!!"
"Nothing is disgusting about that. I find it beautiful," someone else wrote.
Jasmine added in a reply to someone else's comment that such prominent stretch marks are "genetic" and "run in" the family.
She also said she considers the marks her "baby's first drawing".
The teen later returned to her TikTok page to respond to another question, asking whether or not the marks will ever go.
"They fade to white lines," she explained. "They’re not noticeable but they are in a way.
"Mine are starting to fade at the moment - they are not as purple, they’re a light red."
Jasmine's son Oliver was two months old when she turned 18, she has documented her motherhood journey candidly on the video-sharing platform.
Stretch marks are often caused by sudden growth or weight gain, and of course pregnancy can contribute to this.
Stretch marks may fade, like Jasmine said hers are in the process of doing, but it is unlikely that they will fully disappear.
