My Beautiful Mommy: Children’s Book About Plastic Surgery



Florida plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer saw an unfulfilled niche and decided to do something about it: he wrote a children’s book about mommy’s plastic surgery!

"My Beautiful Mommy," written by Florida-based plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer, is billed by its author as the first book that explains plastic surgery to kids, an issue with which he says many of his patients struggle.

"More than half the women that come in for procedures bring their children with them," he said. "And most parents go into
denial about the surgery with regard to their children."

"My Beautiful Mommy" focuses on a mother explaining an impending nose job and tummy tuck to her young daughter, who is scared that her mommy may look different. Mommy also undergoes a breast enhancement in the book, a fact depicted only through the illustrations so as not to get too graphic for child readers.

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Posted on April 21, 2008 at 1:14 am by Alex
Category: Baby & Kid, Book & Lit, Medicine



23 Comments to "My Beautiful Mommy: Children’s Book About Plastic Surgery"

  • Britt
    April 21st, 2008 at 1:26 am

    I love it.

  • Thespian24601
    April 21st, 2008 at 1:39 am

    Creepy. Being addicted to Nip/Tuck, I also love it.

  • biltmore
    April 21st, 2008 at 1:50 am

    You’ve got to be kidding me.

    Here’s a good idea for a writer looking for an unfulfilled niche. How about a book for kids who’s parents get a sex change? We’ll call it “Why Your Mother Is Now The Man”.

  • * Miss UNIVERSE
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:20 am

    Poor women. Wonder if they focus as much as being beautiful on the inside as they do on the outside.

    In the Miss Universe and Miss World pageants, it is now not uncommon to find teens who have undergone face and body surgery in some competitive nations.

    Can you guess which of these winners have been under the knife?????

    ;-)

  • Sofar
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:25 am

    @biltmore: I don’t see how that’s a bad idea.

  • cooties
    April 21st, 2008 at 8:49 am

    One of the lines from the book is that ‘mommy will come back looking different and prettier.’ I don’t have anything against people having cosmetic surgery and I do understand how a woman’s body is massively altered by pregnancy. But I dislike the messages the book transmits: pretty on the outside is more important; mommy isn’t as pretty was she was before YOU arrived; daddys don’t need cosmetic surgery.

  • andrewdoane
    April 21st, 2008 at 9:03 am

    I thought for sure this was a joke. Seriously, it’s not a joke?

  • Nate
    April 21st, 2008 at 10:14 am

    Hmmm….I think I have several ideas to fill other niche voids:

    “So..your Daddy is addicted to crack”

    “Your real Daddy delivers the mail”

    “Why does Mommy have so many men stay the night?

  • sigh
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am

    “Why are you doing this, Mommie?”

    “Well, Honey, your Mommie can’t accept who she is, and has given in to the popular belief that you have to look a certain way in order for people to like and/or accept you. Ultimately, she has given in to the idea that it’s what’s on the outside that counts. Even though several decades of women’s rights has helped overcome this, Mommie is still swayed by popular opinion, and perpetuating the delusion that you can overcome a lack of personality with good looks.”

  • Tara
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:50 am

    What a stupid idea. Man the kids growing up today are going to be really screwed in the head.

  • Tempscire
    April 21st, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    And then beautiful Mommy’s daughter has all the ammo she needs to get her very own My First Boob Job at the age of 15. How precious.

  • L
    April 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    If it was a book on how the doctor is going to fix mommy’s congenital deformity or the damage done from an accident, that’s another story. This is just stupid.

    What’s next? A book called “Why Are Mommy’s Teeth Blindingly White?” Or how about “Mommies Dye Their Hair So Daddies Will Still Love Them”? What kind of message do we want to send to children?

  • Ed Hands
    April 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    I find this shallow and saddening.

  • Ali S.
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    You’re kidding me. Well, all I’m going to say is that this isn’t going to end well.

  • The Slapster
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    I have to get one of these! It would make a classic coffee table book. What a fabulous, sick world we’re created.

  • Dave
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    “Mommy? Why is your smile stuck like that? It looks funny.”

  • Retrokatze
    April 21st, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    ‘”My Beautiful Mommy” focuses on a mother explaining an impending nose job [...]‘

    And if the daughter has the same nose as mommy, she’ll always think her nose is not good enough and that she’ll never be pretty without invasive surgery…

    Sick!

  • Lore
    April 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    This made my stomach hurt. It’s sad that as a society we feel that it’s necessary for this not only be written but also published. Sick.

  • Evilbeagle
    April 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    As sick as this is, I have to give whoever came up with it some credit. There is some recognition, deep down inside, that all this cosmetic surgery has an affect on children, however it does it. I don’t want to slam cosmetic surgery outright because it’s not always a shallow, addictive, and frivolous thing, but I am sure that there are some kids out there that don’t even remember what Mommy used to look like who could use some sort of explanation.

  • csbmonkey
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    Typo in the title. It’s supposed to be “My Beautiful, Vacuous Mommy!”

  • MoonCake
    April 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 am

    i agree that it’s necessary to explain this to children and the intention of the book was a good one.

    -BUT-

    why isn’t it daddy’s cosmetic surgery? men receive it too. we’re supposed to be living in a balanced, equal community these days (”supposed to” can only go so far, i know) and be able to explain to children that EVERYONE has the same opportunities. this book perpetuates a stereotype (however true it may be..) that women are shallow and obsessed with outer appearances (however true THIS may be..), but MEN ARE TOO! i would be very surprised to learn if this book mentions a daddy at all, and even more surprised if there was a second mommy instead. but yes- this book is dumb and i disagree with it.

  • ted
    April 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 am

    So, it’s a stereotypical view of women?

    Welcome to the real world, MoonCake, despite all the so-called “progress”.

    Despite so many years of indoctrination, it’s still a fact that people will judge you - male or female - based on your looks. If you want evidence of the continuing bias, just look at the “glasses on the truck driver makes him a professor” post here on Neatorama.

    Maybe it’s not a bad idea to educate kids on the fact that real beauty is on the outside, because that’s what gets you stuff in life. And that’s all that really matters.

  • Oomi
    April 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    My plastic mommy.

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