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My Beautiful Barbie — I mean, Mom

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney April 29, 2008 09:19 AM

mommy%20200.bmp Just in time for Mother's Day, a Florida plastic surgeon is publishing the picture book "My Beautiful Mommy" to explain how Mom is going to look after a tummy tuck or a nose job.

Dr. Michael Salzhauer has come in for his share of flak, including a modest proposal for toddler cosmetic surgery by Boston Medical Center pediatrician Dr. Steven Parker on his blog Heathy Children.

Not everybody got the joke, but fellow commenters helpfully defined "satire."

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.