Last weekend, Kim Kardashian let her Snapchat followers in on a little secret: Having a baby fucks up your bellybutton. โAnyone thatโs had babies understands,โ she told fans, ominously. Thatโs why she decided to get a laser treatment on the area. She wanted to โtighten it up,โ she said. โSo it looks normal,โ she said.
You might think it sounds dramatic โ but Kimโs not wrong. Experts agree that having a baby can, indeed, change your bellybutton. As Miami-based plastic surgeon Sean Simon, MD, told NewBeauty, โThe 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 thatโs not the kind of thing a resurfacing laser, like the one Kim used, can fix. โPerformed properly, there is a mild chance of an improved result,โ plastic surgeon Mike Edwards, MD, told the publication. โBut I do not feel this is something that will provide great benefit to the average patient.โ
I saw Kim’s belly button. Gag me! Having a baby doesn’t make your belly button look like that! Mine still looks normal. What the hell did she do to it.