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Wait’ll you get a load of “My Beautiful Mommy,” the first picture
book to tell the 4- to 7-year-old crowd all about Mommy’s tummy tuck,
boob lift and nose job. The author, a Florida plastic surgeon and father of four,
said the book is designed to reassure children about “mommy makeovers,”
the plastic surgery that “fixes” all those saggy, wrinkly things that
happen to your body after you give birth, breastfeed and, ya know, live
with kids. Or just live.
“It is for the mom who has already booked her plastic surgery,” author Michael Salzhauer told Reuters reporters,
“and now has to tell her kids why she is going to be in bed, why daddy
is picking the kids up from school and all those other issues.”
As you might guess, the book is igniting controversy … particularly
the pages where the Saggy, Wrinkly Mommy says things like, “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.” Mommy won’t be different, “just prettier!”
We know, right? When we can’t fit into our clothes, we book an appointment in the OR, PDQ, ya know?
Sigh. Racing through the house this morning, getting the kids ready for
school and avoiding all mirrors, which apparently we should have draped
so we wouldn’t accidentally catch sight of ourselves looking human or
anything, we have to wonder what’s happened here. We live in a Paris
Hiltonized culture of coiffed, skeletal and makeup spackled women who’d
rather go under the knife than betray even the slightest tinge of
imperfection... but who have no problem racking up DUIs or betraying
other moral flaws. Now, the publishing industry - albeit a self-publishing vanity press, which is marvelously appropriate - is aiding and abetting.
(Read more at http://www.ibabuzz.com/aparentlyspeaking/)
