Last weekend, Kim Kardashian let her Snapchat followers in on a little secret: Having a baby fucks up your bellybutton. โ€œAnyone thatโ€™s had babies understands,โ€ she told fans, ominously. Thatโ€™s why she decided to get a laser treatment on the area. She wanted to โ€œtighten it up,โ€ she said. โ€œSo it looks normal,โ€ she said.

You might think it sounds dramatic โ€” but Kimโ€™s not wrong. Experts agree that having a baby can, indeed, change your bellybutton. As Miami-based plastic surgeon Sean Simon, MD, told NewBeauty, โ€œThe skin and architecture of the bellybutton can become quite distorted as the tissues of the abdomen, including the skin and muscle layers, become stretched during pregnancy to accommodate the growing uterus.โ€

The result is that the bellybutton itself gets wider and looser. But thatโ€™s not the kind of thing a resurfacing laser, like the one Kim used, can fix. โ€œPerformed properly, there is a mild chance of an improved result,โ€ plastic surgeon Mike Edwards, MD, told the publication. โ€œBut I do not feel this is something that will provide great benefit to the average patient.โ€