Sometimes a thing that happens on the day of your birth is you get a birthmark! Sometimes, however, you do not! Here are the stories of the birthmarks on the bodies of our team members.
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I have a fairly prominent birthmark on my right forearm near my elbow. In college, a friend suggested that it looks like a daisy. I wasn’t convinced and she asked to draw on it to show me. I made it into a big thing about how I didn’t really like having ink on my skin or some such nonsense until she begged me to let her. Eventually I relented, she drew on my birthmark, and I admitted that it did kinda look like a daisy. She got the satisfaction of being right and I got the satisfaction of having a pretty girl beg to touch me. Fast forward quite a bit and we’ve been married for 13 years.
I also have a spot under my right nipple that is larger and darker than my many other freckles and has a bit of texture to it, so I think it might be a supernumerary nipple.
I have one shaped like a fluffy sheep on the back of my left thigh. But it’s like, Right Under my buttcheek so no one gets to appreciate it.
I have a tiny heart-shaped birthmark on my left boob, which is great, and one shaped like a bean on my right thigh. Also my cousin (not biologically related) and I both have large round light-colored birthmarks on our right wrists which is REALLY weird and cool (both of our birthmarks have lightened/faded with age but they’re still faintly visible.)
Also, not a birthmark, but I have a tiny barely-noticeable scar on my left eyelid from when I stabbed myself in the eye with a stick as a toddler and it’s been a part of my face as long as I can remember so I consider it basically a birthmark.
I recently had to complete some long-term visa stuff and they ask if you have any “identifying marks” which is so spy movie but alas, I do not have any birthmarks. What I do have is lots and lots of moles, some of which have been there since I was little, which is I guess how you’d be able to find me if I was suddenly Jason Bourne.
I have a birthmark on the back of my left calf, it’s shaped like a Christmas/evergreen tree. . I sometimes forget about it and then I’m like “oh yeah! you exist.” I’ve seen dermatologists before that have asked me if I wanted to get it removed and I don’t think I ever would unless it turns out to be pre-cancerous in some way.
I have a huge birthmark on my left foot, like half of it has a really darker skin tone. I’m 29 y.o. and still perplexed at people with two feet that look the same. Also it looks like a cool map.
Team Weird Singular Freckles Scattered Randomly where you at? I used to connect my arm/hand freckles because I was Convinced they were a constellation that would lead me to a new planet but alas! They just connect into a spiky line! No aliens for me
I play more for the Multiple Beauty Marks team but I have a freckles disappointment to tell you.
Had this cool textbook example obtuse triangle constellation on my chest but I then I grew secondary sex characteristics.
Small ones but just enough to ruin the alignment.
As a NICU veteran I say the scars are totally birth marks, may not have been born with them but they show we are strong and were born fighting.
Not a birthmark but when I was 7 months old my right kidney was removed because of a malformation, so the resulted 15 centimeters scar that goes near my waist has been with me forever.
Several doctors had ask me if I wanted plastic surgery and I always said no, it’s part of me and I love it.
PD: Ms. Hogan I don’t believe that you have a capital E shape birthmark on your butt, I need proof, maybe a picture of your ass in this post?
My birthmark is on the inside of my upper right thigh. It’s funny because I’ve always been self-conscious of it even if no one can see it!
I inherited a nickel sized mole on my back. My dad and a few other relatives have it as well.
I’ve wondered now about the difference between the confirmed birthmark and other smaller moles I have on my face and arms.
There is also a light one on my ankle that I noticed around the age when kids were into showing off their birthmarks. I told my dad and without even looking he rolled his eyes at me. This was the same age I faked needing crutches- so I guess faking a birthmark isn’t out of the question. But I just confirmed it’s still there and EXISTING!
So I have a birthmark a above my belly button that looks like a misshapen oval that’s always been there, but the one thing that always made me more self-conscious and took a lot longer to come to terms with and accept was the scar above it that goes horizontally across my entire stomach from childhood liver cancer. I’ve had it since I was 1 1/2, so I don’t remember life without it, but the only bright spot I had from that was since it had a little curve to it like a mouth, I always thought it made my chest look like a drawing of a face, which is probably super weird now that I think about it but it made me laugh so yay?
Butt-birthmarked humans unite! I have one that’s about the size of a quarter – I think it kind of looks like Australia.
heather i volunteer to look at your butt
“I never get anything cool.” mood
Capital E for Everyone Wants to Look at Heather’s Butt.
I don’t have any, but I do have a prominent scar on the back of my neck from a surgery that I’ve always been self-conscious of until I cut my hair off and could care less! Except maybe when strangers feel the need to ask about it. It’s whatever, but WHY? Like, are you expecting some sort of exciting story or…?
Erin, I am continuously impressed by how much I enjoy pretty much anything you write. Even a paragraph about birthmarks.
Valerie I also have a beauty mark on a middle finger, the exact opposite of yours tho.
Right hand, outside.
The other notable beauty mark is on my neck like some kind of witch’s mark. :P
I have a birthmark in the shape of a Braille cell (six dots) on my foot… So my parents figured we didn’t need to get my eyes checked to see if I was blind.
Heather, what typeface is this E in?
I’ve got a mole on my finger which doubles as a prop for my favourite childhood joke…
“Do you think that’s poor or chocolate?”
Licks it
“Well it’s not chocolate”