While many new moms find the appearance of stretch marks disconcerting, others find them empowering. They tell a story.

If you’ve noticed a few red, purple, or silvery-white scar-like lines on your stomach, hips, or thighs recently, you’re certainly not alone — stretch marks are incredibly common, occurring in about 50 ...

Tiger strips, stretch marks, or striae distensae, as they're known in the medical community. Whatever you want to call them, these thin, reddish, white, or dark pinkish-purple indents, which appear in ...