How do you handle negative body image?

I've met a guy and we have been dating for a while. Its leading to the point where we are going to become intimate. I find it hard to show him my body because of all of my scarring and stretch marks. I've had my plastic surgery and have the scars on my legs, arms, breasts, stomach, around my butt and also on my pubic area. So far, he has seen some of the scars and has not asked any questions. But he will surely wonder what the ones on my legs are as they go up my inner thigh from my knee all the way up. I don't think he will at all reject me because of this, but just find it hard to explain about them. I mean should I let him see them first? I don't want to tell him about them first because I don't want to make a big deal out of it. I think confidence is sexy and if I tell him about my scars prior its like I'm not confident about how I look. I know my biggest problem is that men compliment me on how "sexy" I am, but I know under my clothes I have the scars and stretch marks which makes me feel "unsexy."

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