Just in time for Mothers Day comes a new book called “My Beautiful Mommy” which aims to teach kids about their new and improved post-plastic surgery mom.

When she was pregnant with her son Junior, who turns nine this month, Gabriela Acosta ballooned from 115 pounds to 196. Acosta lost the weight but wound up with stretched, saggy skin. Even her son noticed it. He told her that her stomach looked “pruney,” the result, he thought, of staying in the shower too long. So the 29-year-old stay-at-home mom scheduled a consultation with Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Bal Harbour, Fla.

Acosta told Salzhauer that she wasn’t sure how to talk to her son about the procedures she was considering. That’s when he showed her the manuscript for his children’s picture book, “My Beautiful Mommy” (Big Tent Books), out this Mother’s Day. It features a perky mother explaining to her child why she’s having cosmetic surgery (a nose job and tummy tuck). Naturally, it has a happy ending: mommy winds up “even more” beautiful than before, and her daughter is thrilled. [Newsweek]

Hmmm, I think the mere fact that my mother raised me and loved me unconditionally makes her beautiful already.

If a person wants to put themselves under the knife so be it, but do we really need to make the process a bedtime tale for the kiddies? Whatever happen to storybooks that taught kids to love themselves for who they are?I understand kids may need an explanation as to why Mommy looks different, but won’t glamorizing the plastic surgery story teach them that they too are flawed? Then again, lots of fairy-tales teach young ones that one must be a pretty princess to get the prince.

If you are a person considering plastic surgery please and be safe. Visit http://www.plasticsurgery.org/patients_consumers/ps_faqs/FAQ-What-You-Should-Know-About-the-Safety-of-Outpatient-Plastic-Surgery.cfm

for tips on safe plastic surgery procedures.