Word: cosmeticize
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When Dr. Michael Salzhauer became concerned about his plastic surgery practice’s effect on families, he decided to respond in the most effective way possible: by writing a children’s book. Entitled “My Perfect Mommy,” the tale tells of a...
How the real Dr. Michael can argue that his book merely helps parents to explain their complex choices to their children is incomprehensible. Clearly, it glorifies those choices at the same time. Inevitably, it will have the consequence of indoctrinating youngsters to believe that aging women are damaged goods that...
This propaganda is as insidious as it is damaging. When the mother states that she needs surgery to fit into her wardrobe, how can a kindergartner help but forget that garments are meant to fit people, not vice versa? If we teach children as young as four that cosmetic surgery...
DECEMBER 2004 About a year after undergoing cosmetic surgery, the 68-year-old admits to hair transplants when pictures surface of him wearing a bandanna to welcome British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Sardinia.
Senator Clinton’s widely acknowledged strength in this year’s Democratic debates makes her dizzying fall in the polls somewhat puzzling. The juxtaposition of her consistently strong performance in the policy realm with her patchwork poor performance at the voting booth begs a fundamental question: If...