April 17 2008
Why Are You Going Under The Knife Mummy?
posted by Ana Samways at 9:36 am
A new book for kids, My Beautiful Mommy, is written by a plastic surgeon and explains why their mother is having plastic surgery. Obviously not the complicated psychological reasons, just the ones on the surface…
“My Beautiful Mommy is aimed at kids ages four to seven 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.”
Via Feministing.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I blame Cinderella. Does Dr Michael sing “Bibbity Bobbity Boo?”
April 17th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Maybe, after all he is a musclebound superhero type who can save women from their bingo wings.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Heh. Why mommy needed plastic surgery reminds me of that old joke that finishes: “…and then along come-a the Luigi with-a the big-a head.”