A mum who developed stretchmarks while pregnant has painted them on a Barbie doll to show her daughter they are "perfectly normal". Kate Claxton, 35, suffered from postnatal anxiety and hated her stretchmarks after she gave birth to her daughter, who is now three-years-old.
But after learning to embrace her body insecurity, she wanted to teach her little girl that they were nothing to worry about as she grew up. Her daughter is now a massive fan of Barbies but children's author Kate said she could not find any dolls which represented her own body.
So she decided to paint stretchmarks on a doll herself using nail varnish and has now urged manufacturers Mattel to do the same. Kate, of Swindon, Wilts., said: "My daughter has really started getting into Barbie's recentlyand I almost recoiled when I bought her first one.
