Plastic Surgery Book for Children

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Thursday, April 17, 2008

Can’t decide what to get that surgically enhanced woman for Mother’s Day? How about a book that will help them explain to their children — why they look like a freak?

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From ‘My Beautiful Mommy:’ A girl accompanies mom on a cosmetic surgery consultation. Mom explains she’ll soon be ‘prettier,’ and shows where the bandages will be, and the finished product

Newsweek reports,

When she was pregnant with her son Junior, who turns nine this month, Gabriela Acosta ballooned from 115 pounds to 196. Acosta lost the weight but wound up with stretched, saggy skin. Even her son noticed it. He told her that her stomach looked “pruney,” the result, he thought, of staying in the shower too long. So the 29-year-old stay-at-home mom scheduled a consultation with Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Bal Harbour, Fla.

Acosta told Salzhauer that she wasn’t sure how to talk to her son about the procedures she was considering. That’s when he showed her the manuscript for his children’s picture book, “My Beautiful Mommy” (Big Tent Books), out this Mother’s Day. It features a perky mother explaining to her child why she’s having cosmetic surgery (a nose job and tummy tuck). Naturally, it has a happy ending: mommy winds up “even more” beautiful than before, and her daughter is thrilled.

The reassuring tale helped win Acosta over—she scheduled breast augmentation and a tummy tuck. Since February, when she had the surgery, she and Junior have read the book a half dozen times, and she says it helped him feel excited rather than scared. “I didn’t want him to think [the surgery] was because I was hurting. It was to make me feel good,” she says.

That message seems to have gotten through. Instead of being uncomfortable about the surgery, Acosta says her son actually spoke up about it at a big party. “Did you see her new belly button? It’s so pretty!” he said of his mom. “I think he was proud,” she says.

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Nothing like teaching your children the benefits of plastic surgery as a means to rectify any cosmetic flaws with their appearance. I see this as a potential nightmare, children already have issues with diseases such as anorexia, in an attempt to “fit-in” with their peers. Let’s teach our kids to be shallow, shall we?

I bet the book doesn’t talk about how these procedures can possibly kill the patient — or how some people turn out like Priscilla Presley. Kid, do yourself a favor and throw the book at Mommy.

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