A Florida plastic surgeon has written a book that explains mommy's plastic surgery to a young child and it's immediately become a sensation. My Beautiful Mommy by Michael Salzhauer, M.D. explains why mommy will be out of commission for awhile before she emerges from her cocoon of bandages, a newer, prettier mommy. Some think the idea is great while others think it's heralding the end of society as we know it.
Dr. Michael Salzhauer said so many moms brought kids to their appointments that he was motivated to stock up on lollipops in his Bal Harbour, Florida office. In My Beautiful Mommy, he explains mommy's recuperation, changing look and desire for plastic surgery.
"Many parents don't explain to their kids what's going on," said the father of four, with his fifth child on the way. "Children are very perceptive. You can't hide a major surgery from them. When mom goes down for two weeks after a tummy tuck it affects them."
Illustrations show a crook-nosed mom with loose tummy skin under her half shirt picking up her young daughter early from school one day and taking her to a strapping and handsome "Dr. Michael."
Mom explains she is going to have operations on her nose and tummy and may have to take it easy for a week or so. The girl asks if the operations will hurt, and mom replies, "Maybe a little," warning she will look different after the bandages come off.
The girl asks: "Why are you going to look different?"
Mom responds: "Not just different, my dear — prettier!"
Here's our take: mommies are getting lost of plastic surgery and they have to explain it to their kids somehow: and this book certainly does that. The only problem is that your child will then blab everything in the book to your entire social group. But, hey, people aren't hiding plastic surgery like they used to, so perhaps you should just embrace it.
Or you can always lie to your child and invent some other reason why you look like a mummy wrapped in bandages, then you look terrible and then you look fabulous. It's your call. You can buy the book only through the publisher, here. It ships in time for Mother's Day.
A Florida plastic surgeon has written a book that explains mommy's plastic surgery to a young child and it's immediately become a 
