Sounds lovely, doesn't it? "My Beautiful Mommy", a book which is coming out at the end of this month, was written by plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer, M.D. of Florida.
He says this is an aid for children in dealing with Mommy's plastic surgeries. "Children notice everything..when there's a larger surgical procedure, you can't hide it from them," says the good doctor.
"Why will you look different?" the child asks, he says. "Not only different, but MORE BEAUTIFUL, my dear!", Mommy is trained to respond. This is the point of Dr. Salzhauer's new book. Mommy will be MORE BEAUTIFUL after surgery.
"Why will you look different?" the child asks, he says. "Not only different, but MORE BEAUTIFUL, my dear!", Mommy is trained to respond. This is the point of Dr. Salzhauer's new book. Mommy will be MORE BEAUTIFUL after surgery.
Salzhauer, according to his own statements, performs about 200 operations a year. He reminds us that children learn in school about caterpillars transforming into beautiful butterflies and he tells children, about the removal of Mommy's bandages, that this is the same process that happens to the caterpillar, a "normal process like that which happens in nature!"
Beautiful, huh? The first printing is 4,400 books. Sign up now for your copy.
Information from Germany's Die Welt on line.
23 comments:
Good post. This is the most disgusting thing to date next to books encouraging same sex families. Sick, just sick.
Thanks for posting this one Z.
Z,
This book really just turns my stomach. In some circles, plastic surgery is a normal thing, true. But for most average folks, it's just not. This seems to be just more of the insane focus on looks, especially for young girls. More anorexia and self esteem issues, is what I see.
RW Emerson, "Conduct of Life"
VIII: BEAUTY
Was never form and never face
So sweet to SEYD as only grace
Which did not slumber like a stone
But hovered gleaming and was gone.
Beauty chased he everywhere,
In flame, in storm, in clouds of air.
He smote the lake to feed his eye
With the beryl beam of the broken wave;
He flung in pebbles well to hear
The moment's music which they gave.
Oft pealed for him a lofty tone
From nodding pole and belting zone.
He heard a voice none else could hear
From centred and from errant sphere.
The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,
Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime.
In dens of passion, and pits of wo,
He saw strong Eros struggling through,
To sun the dark and solve the curse,
And beam to the bounds of the universe.
While thus to love he gave his days
In loyal worship, scorning praise,
How spread their lures for him, in vain,
Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!
He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
I want young children to see their mommy as beautiful for who she is...I'm not totally against any plastic surgery procedure but, if it's going to be so face altering that the child would ask questions, what message ARE we sending, as Karen suggests here?
Let's teach our girls not to 'die for beauty', or at least strive for inside beauty; kindness, honor, dignity and grace.
Layla's right, too....I thought of those "Billy has Two Mommies" books when I saw this and thought this is a close second.
Like a dear friend says, "If you are homely when you're young, it's God's fault...if you're old and ugly, it's your fault"
The only good reason I can see for getting plastic surgery would be if a person had been terribly disfigured due to some sort of accident, then mayby. God gave you that face and he loves it. What more could you or should you want?
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
I heard this and couldnt believe it..arggggggggggggg!!!
The doctor's book and shallow mommies probably explains why 6-year olds are trying to get breast implants.
how truly pathetic...but typical of our society.
David...I have a little chin I'd like lifted, not much, but I don't like it...!! I can see why some women like a nip or a tuck ...but I mostly agree with you. The bad thing is what a message this sends to young girls, as my buddy, Mustang, suggests....
WomanHonorThyself? Amazing, isn't it?
And Incognito....you can say THAT again.
Well, since "beauty is only skin deep," anyway...
Good morning, Z.
""If you are homely when you're young, it's God's fault...if you're old and ugly, it's your fault" You saw my last post where I showed the picture of that idiot who says that he believes Mary was raped by a Roman Soldier. He is proof that what your friend says is right! Our true character does show up on our face.
This is very disturbing, but of course the plastic surgeon who wrote this is only out to make more money for himself. What does he care? It's sad.
I'm constantly telling my seven year old daughter how beautiful she is on the inside and out. That God made girls to look different, and that is BEAUTIFUL. Our society has lost sight that different IS beautiful.
We've lost the fact that aging can be beautiful.
Now remind me of that in ten years! lol
Inner Beauty is what we've got to 'sell' our young girls,isn't it.
Gayle, exactly right! This is all about this doctor making even MORE money as a plastic surgeon. After all, how many procedures can he do? Has to augment the income at our kids' expense. But, I'm sure he believes what he write...I'd hate to be his wife!
Pinky...Aging CAN be beautiful, but it's tough in our society which only worships at the throne of YOUTH. I guess we can all think of women we know who are in their seventies and are beautiful. I can. And she's had no surgery and she's very wrinkled, but holds herself with such dignity and is so encouraging and lovely. Beautiful!!
i saw this on fox news last week - what an ugly message we're sending to our youth.
people strive for outward perfection all the while stagnant and left wanting on the inside - what good is physical beauty if one's dying inside?
just another bandaid over a festering sore.
for some reason i just found you today. not certain why that is.
i love your blog and your postings. thanks for doing what you do.
heidianne jackson
http://biggirlpants.typepad.com
Hello, Heidianne, I'm so glad to have you here! I'll be by your blog, too! Thanks SO much.
I like what we all do, I just wish we didn't have to, you know!
Funny, I was about to write "I don't want to have to fight for this country"..what I meant by that was that this country SHOULDN'T NEED posts like ours which reveal the scary stuff that's going on from the Left (and Right, let's face it, from time to time!)...But, when I realized what I'd almost said, I thought "Yes, I DO want to fight! I can't be a soldier, but we can ALL fight this way!"
Kind of gave me a blog lift. THANKS, Heidianne!...thanks a LOT!
I'm neutral on this particular subject. I agree that true beauty is found more in good character, genuine consideration of others and the abundant expression of affection and generosity.
Some of the best-looking people are among the vainest, unhappiest and most black-hearted, BUT nice even features and a good body never hurt anyone.
Y'all should read RAPACCINI'S DAUGHTER, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that treats of the ethics of "falsification of beauty" in a time long before plastic surgery was popular and readily available.
I'm neutral on this particular subject. I agree that true beauty is found more in good character, genuine consideration of others and the abundant expression of affection and generosity.
Some of the best-looking people are among the vainest, unhappiest and most black-hearted, BUT nice even features and a good body never hurt anyone.
Y'all should read RAPACCINI'S DAUGHTER, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that treats of the ethics of "falsification of beauty" in a time long before plastic surgery was popular and readily available.
~ FreeThinke
FT, you're sounding dangerously close to the brilliant,erudite and well read Farmer John.
YOU STOP THAT!!!
:-)
By the way, HAVE you visited his blog YET? You will enjoy it. SOMEBODY has to actually UNDERSTAND it!
i'm giggling, FJ.....(i hope YOU are, too!)?
Emerson, "Conduct of Life - Beauty"
I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality. We say, love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: -- yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love, for finding what he seeks, and only that; and the mythologists tell us, that Vulcan was painted lame, and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact, that one was all limbs, and the other, all eyes. In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
*giggling*
btw - I LOVED the Hawthorne, but initially I didn't think that he had quite "gotten" the relationship of lover to beloved in the ending. It was only a few moments later that I realized that in a 'scientific' world without any grace, he had gotten it precisely right.
Fj and FT...except for taste in music, you guys would really hit it off. I'm happy you're hitting it off here so we can all be totally confounded and bewildered by what the hell you're saying~!!!!
but, seriously....I'm learning !! That is a GOOD thing. thanks very much.
What makes you think our tastes in music are all that different? I love classical, but occassionaly treat myself to a Dionysia. After all, I'd hate to suffer the fate of poor Pentheus!
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