My Beautiful Mommy

Yeeeeah... I just don't have many words. Well, this is me were talking about, so I have a few.

I've often spoken with a close friend of mine about getting a couple of things tweaked here and there, when we're done having our kiddies. The prune stomach, as mentioned in the beginning of this Newsweek Article about the book, is the bane of many a mommy (I have not yet lost enough weight from the pregnancy to notice, but as the pounds slowly shed off, I get it.) So I am not anti-augmentation. That said, it isn't about the fact that this book may wind up being helpful when discussing to kids why mommy is going through a surgery. What bugs me is the PRETTY part. As Newsweek writes:

Then there are the body image issues raised by cosmetic surgery—especially for daughters. Berger worries that kids will think their own body parts must need "fixing" too. The surgery on a nose, for example, may "convey to the child that the child's nose, which always seemed OK, might be perceived by Mommy or by somebody as unacceptable," she says.

Yeah. With a title like this, there is an implication that the child's mom WASN'T pretty before. And that you have to "fix" every little imperfection to be considered Pretty. Or that cosmetic surgery makes you pretty automatically, which... not always. And I cannot stand how the kid on the cover dances around her "new and improved" mommy with pride and wonder. Gah. I had more to say about it than I thought.