Picture book helps kids deal with mom’s plastic surgery Kids afraid of your nose job? Book helps explain what's going on. By Theresa Walsh Giarrusso | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So you want to have your tummy tucked and your boobs lifted but are worried the kids won’t understand. Well, there’s a new picture book coming out on April 28 aimed at helping kids understand plastic surgery. It’s called “My Beautiful Mommy.”
I don’t have an advance copy of the book, but Newsweek had an exclusive interview with the author.
According to the story, “My Beautiful Mommy” is written by a plastic surgeon from Florida who saw lots of mommies bringing their children in for their appointments. He felt like that was scary for the kids, and he wanted to help explain what was going on and why their mom was doing it.
The Newsweek story says, “ ‘My Beautiful Mommy’ is aimed at kids ages 4 to 7 and features a plastic surgeon named Dr. Michael (a musclebound superhero type) and a girl whose mother gets a tummy tuck, a nose job and breast implants. Before her surgery the mom explains that she is getting a smaller tummy: ‘You see, as I got older, my body stretched and I couldn’t fit into my clothes anymore. Dr. Michael is going to help fix that and make me feel better.’ Mom comes home looking like a slightly bruised Barbie doll with demure bandages on her nose and around her waist.”
“The text doesn’t mention the breast augmentation, but the illustrations intentionally show Mom’s breasts to be fuller and higher. ‘I tried to skirt that issue in the text itself,’ says (Dr. Michael) Salzhauer. ‘The tummy lends itself to an easy explanation to the children: extra skin and can’t fit into your clothes. The breasts might be a stretch for a six-year-old.’ “
“The book doesn’t explain exactly why the mother is redoing her nose post-pregnancy. Nonetheless, Mom reassures her little girl that the new nose won’t just look ‘different, my dear—prettier!’ “
There are concerns that the daughters will think they’re bodies need fixing too — but I guess they might wonder that with our without a book.
Just when you think you've heard and read it all!!!!
Is there a book out there for kids, when they see mommy come home with no breasts because she just had them removed because of cancer? Of course not. I guess that just not sexy enough, right? Pathetic!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I'm sorry---what happened to old fashioned anorexia and bulimia(I'm not making fun of these just being facetious......what message is it we are sending.....nursing at the nursing homes will be a hoot in 30 years......
what to do when grandmas breast implants leak---to have surgery or not to have surgery---that will be national healthcare issue......not to mention our "RealID".....who are you? what are you? and are you from America, Russia, China, Germany, England etc? you certainly dont look like your picture,,,,wait let me scan your eyes.....
toooooooo freaky.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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