On Apr 22, 11:25=A0am, Ilena Rose <B...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bravo to Dr. Zuckerman for her sage comments, from Ilena Rosenthal,
> Health Lover.
>
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/
>
> www.BreastImplantInfo.orgDr. Zuckerman's site
>
> Taking a Kid's-Eye View Of Cosmetic Surgery
> Plastic Surgeon Turns Author to Explain 'Mommy Makeovers'
>
> By Sandra G. Boodman
> Wa****ngton Post Staff Writer
> Tuesday, April 22, 2008; HE05
>
> The hardcover book by board-certified plastic surgeon Michael A.
> Salzhauer, published by Big Tent Books and available for purchase
> online, seeks to answer the insistent questions posed by some young
> children: Why is Mommy's nose smaller? Where did her tummy go? And
> what's with all those bandages?
>
> "I don't know whether to laugh or cry," said Diana Zuckerman,
> president of the nonprofit National Research Center for Women and
> Families, after reading "My Beautiful Mommy."
>
> "This is disturbing on so many levels," she added. "For one thing, it
> perpetuates a completely unrealistic ideal" of female beauty: the
> large-breasted, wasp-waisted, midriff-baring Barbie-doll look.
> Zuckerman, who says she is not opposed to all plastic surgery, notes
> that the book's ****trayal of postoperative recovery seems remarkably
> short: The mother is up and around soon after her tummy tuck, which in
> real life can require a much longer recuperation.
>
> "And I'm sure there's a good reason the mother had to wear skin-tight
> pants and a crop top," Zuckerman added, "but I don't know what it is."
>
> Salzhauer does. "Mothers, at least those in South Florida, do look and
> dress like that," said the 36-year-old physician who hosts a Sunday
> morning radio call-in show called "Nip Talk Radio."
>
> "Being a doctor, I can't deal with the political or philosophical
> arguments" surrounding cosmetic surgery, Salzhauer said. "I have to
> deal with reality." The book, he said, gives parents "a vehicle to
> explain the plastic surgery process to their kids" who may be too
> young to understand why a parent is choosing to undergo an
> appearance-altering operation.
>
> The bulk of his practice, Salzhauer said, consists of women between 20
> and 40 undergoing what he calls "mommy makeovers": breast implants,
> breast lifts and tummy tucks.
>
> Salzhauer said his interest in children's reactions to cosmetic
> surgery was sparked by questions his daughter, who was then 4, asked
> when he underwent a nose job several years ago. As the father of four
> young children, Salzhauer said, "I read a lot of children's books" and
> realized there was no book for 4- to 7-year-olds that could explain
> why a parent who wasn't sick was having an operation.
>
> Many of his patients, he added, bring their children to plastic
> surgery consultations and even postoperative appointments.
>
> Zuckerman questioned why the mother in the book has just a small
> bandage on her perky new nose, not the black eyes that typically
> follow rhinoplasty, and why she's up and around a few days after her
> tummy tuck, not lying in bed in a haze of pain waiting for her next
> Percocet.
>
> Then there's the appearance of plastic surgeon "Dr. Michael," who
> looks like Superman. "It wasn't my idea," said Salzhauer, who said it
> was the illustrator's concept. "Of course, that's how I see myself
> when I look in the mirror."
>
> Ten percent of the proceeds from the book, he said, will be earmarked
> for children's plastic surgery charities. A Spanish-language version
> is also available; Salzhauer hopes it will appeal to patients in Latin
> America, where cosmetic medicine is also popular.
> Response from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
> www.ilenarose.blogspot.com
> www.ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/
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make a
tax-deductible donation to her fraudulent charity "Humantics". If you
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California Attorney-General and the IRS might take notice as well.
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