Toronto (eCanadaNow) - My Beautiful Mommy is a new kids book about plastic surgery. It was written by Michael Salzhauer, a plastic surgeon in Bal Harbour, Florida.
The book details the conversation and process a mother and daughter go through as the mother gets a tummy tuck and nose job.
Salzhauer says he came up with the idea to help parents explain cosmetic procedures to their children
"It sounds like a joke but there really is a need to address this issue," Dr. Salzhauer told Reuters. "Hundreds of thousands of women have this operation in the United States. This is for a specific consumer at a specific time in their life that is going to turn their household upside down for a couple of weeks."
The book is meant to give kids an explanation for why their parent is getting plastic surgery and to ease their fear of whether or not that parent will look different afterwards. Whether or not it will serve its purpose and whether or not there is a large enough audience of parents who cannot explain why they are getting plastic surgery to their own children out there remains to be seen.
My Beautiful Mommy is actually a self-published book and not likely to see wide distribution.
