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puke.

A new book has been written/illustrated for the purpose of helping little girls understand why mommy got a nip/tuck. I’m not sure what offends me more: the message behind the story or the trashy illustrations… ok, it’s the message.

This book glosses over an important and dangerous decision of plastic surgery and placates the child’s curiosity with fluffy non-answers. It does not explain to the child why mommy is cutting up her nose, stomach, and breasts- creating a dangerous desensitivity to a potentially fatal surgery.

If a parent decides to go under the knife and a child wants to know why, would it not be better to be truthful and honest (at an age-appropriate level) about the realities of plastic surgery?

In the illustration below the little girl tells her mommy that she is “already the prettiest mommy in the whole wide world” yet mommy’s only response is to continue with the surgery- this enforces to the little girl that her view of beauty is WRONG and that she must conform to and accept what other people’s (magazines, advertisements, celebrities, plastic surgeons) view of beauty is.

Yuck. You can check out more of the nastiness here.