I thought Joan Rivers already had that job. Jesus, that one is starting to look like one of the Nazis that didn’t look away from the Ark of the Covenant when Indy warned everybody to keep their eyes shut.

Anyway, Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a certified plastic surgeon, wrote a children’s book/ horror story called “My Beautiful Mommy” that explains to kids about their mommy’s new body parts. Isn’t that adorable? Newsweek reports:

Salzhauer got the idea for a book after noticing that women were coming into his office with their kids in tow. He says that mysterious doctor’s visits can be frightening for children. “Parents generally tend to go into this denial thing. They just try to ignore the kids’ questions completely.” But, he adds, children “fill in the blanks in their imagination” and then feel worse when they see “mommy with bandages,” he says. “With the tummy tucks, [the mothers] can’t lift anything. They’re in bed. The kids have questions.”

Questions like:

Mommy, why are your boobs all lopsided and hard?

Mommy, why are you leaking silicon again?

Mommy, why do you smell like formaldehyde and vodka?

All good questions. Kid’s are smart.

[Thesuperficial]

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