How do the Kardashians get rid of stretch marks?

Many women wear their stretch marks like a badge of pride, but not Kim Kardashian-West.

The reality TV star, who welcomed her third child via surrogate last month, has revealed she underwent a procedure to get rid of the stretch marks on her breasts.

While it’s easy to forget sometimes with her lavish lifestyle and photoshopped images, the 37 year-old is human and not immune to the ways women's bodies change after having children, like stretch marks on your breasts from feeding.

Like a lot of mums, the beauty mogul says her body changed in ways she wasn't expecting and she wanted to look the way she did pre-babies.

"After breastfeeding North, I wasn’t happy with the stretch marks on my boobs, so I had the area Coolbeam lasered by Dr. Ourian. It made SUCH a difference," she tells.

"The Coolbeam lasers are the best for removing scars, stretch marks and skin imperfections. They treat stretch marks by resurfacing the top layer of skin, which increases collagen regeneration. The best part is that there’s very little pain and downtime!"

The wife of Kanye West says the treatment has left her feeling much more confident.

“Afterward, I was SO excited to see the effects on my skin," she continued. 

Kim Kardashian West and and North West September 2014 in Paris/Image: Getty

Kardashian-West went on to say having kids also changed the way her stomach looked and she underwent ultrasound radio frequency to help tighten her skin. 

"I love ultrasound radio frequency, or USRF, for skin tightening", she revealed. "Anyone who has had kids understands what pregnancy will do to your belly button -- getting an ultrasound treatment on my stomach just totally tightened the area up."

While the mum of three is keen to remove any signs of her post baby body, there are many women who are proud of their post-baby stretch marks.

Model Chrissy Teigen, who is known for keeping it real, uploaded a picture on social media showing the stretch marks on her thighs four months after having her daughter Luna, now almost two. The cookbook author posted the image on snapchat and called the lines  'tributaries'.

It's a very lucky woman who manages to gets through pregnancy and birth without a stretch mark to her name, if only more women were proud to show them off.  

Kim Kardashian's beauty arsenal is filled with tons of hella expensive products—but every so often, she lets us know that, yes, she does have some cheap, ride-or-die favorites, too, like her $10 wrinkle-softening serum (opens in new tab), or her go-to $6 drugstore mascara (opens in new tab).

And today, in a post on her website (opens in new tab), Kim praised yet another affordable drugstore product that she swears keeps her skin stretch-mark free (opens in new tab): Bio-Oil (opens in new tab), a classic skin oil that costs a cool $15.

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"It just makes my skin glow, and it has so many benefits," Kim wrote in the post. "If you have a scar or stretch marks, you just massage the oil onto the area two times a day." Kim even called the formula a "lifesaver" throughout her pregnancies, and "would apply it like crazy."

Even if you're not looking to get rid of your stretch marks—because there's absolutely nothing wrong with having them (opens in new tab) (embrace them! Love them! Own them!)—the formula is still a killer choice for everyday use. The lightweight oil is infused with Vitamin A and E, which help even out your skin tone, along with lavender, rosemary, calendula, and chamomile oils, which work to hydrate and smooth your skin.

According to Bio Oil's website (opens in new tab), the product has apparently been "clinically proven to help improve the appearance of new or old scars, whether from surgery, accidents, burns, insect bites, scratches or conditions such as acne or chickenpox." But according to biology and science, nothing can actually prevent stretch marks, since they're caused by hormones, genetics, and stretched-out skin.

Sure, oils will keep your skin soft when you're pregnant or going through weight fluctuations, but they won't do anything to get rid of stretch marks, so they can't repair the damaged elastic fibers and collagen deep, deep within your skin. They can, however, give you a nice glow, which can mitigate their appearance.

But, hey, Kim's skin looks smooth as hell in photos, so maybe she's evolved past scientific reasoning. Either that, or she's just got really, really good genes. I'll let you be the judge.

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