"It wasn't meant to be read as a children's bedtime tale like Goodnight Moon," says the Floridian plastic surgeon and the author of "My Beautiful Mommy" that helps young children understand what happens when their mom undergoes plastic surgery. We find it disturbing- you?
Blogging NPR: Explaining Mommy's Nose Job
The little girl who is the main character learns that her mom is going to have a nose job and tummy tuck. The book illustrates how the family can pitch in while mom recovers from her surgery.
It'd be interesting to get the sales numbers on a book like this and see how many people need to explain what the bandage is on mommy's nose to their kids. The complete NPR article is here.
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Oh my god, WHAAAT??? This is highly disturbing. And why is she going in for a tummy tuck if she already wears midriff-baring t-shirts??
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How sad.
I love how the environment in the pictures shows a giant SUV and McMansions with two car garages!
Also... the 'mommy' is oddly proportioned - as if Barbie doll wasn't an exaggeration - and they made the daughter very dorky looking - as if to say "You're going to need surgery too someday." Like they couldn't draw a typical pretty little girl.
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hahahahahah... .mommy's face looks like she already received several face lifts and some cheek implants....
a perfect book for a family with warped values :-)
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This is really, really sad.
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Sick. Like young women don't have enough pressure on them already. This book is utterly revolting.
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Yuk. I sort of wonder if the illustrator wasn't making a point with the the bland, tasteless Starter Castle and stupid SUV.
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I suppose it's no more disturbing than our culture itself, which has made plastic surgery into such a "commonplace", casual thing...
Fifty or so years ago, this book would have been labeled science fiction. It's frightening that that is no longer the case.
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