If my mom ever felt the need to have a tummy tuck, I would lose it.

I love my mom; I think she’s beautiful just the way she is. And not just because of how she looks. She’s beautiful because she’s always willing to drive my friends home, knows my favorite flavor of juice, and lets me listen to my music in the car even though she doesn’t like it.

So, if she ever told me she was having her body surgically altered to make herself “more beautiful,” I wouldn’t take it well. At all.

A new book is out to help mothers explain their pending tummy tucks, breast augmentations, or nose jobs to their children. The book, "My Beautiful New Mommy", was written by a plastic surgeon, Dr. Michael Salzhauer. He decided to write it after seeing the number of young mothers attempting to explain their plastic surgeries to their children. You can see excerpts of it by clicking here.

One page of the book, in particular, is causing a controversy. On it, a mother says her new nose will look “not just different my dear — prettier.” I find this statement worrisome. Poor body image is one of my pet peeves. Our culture constantly tells girls they aren’t skinny enough, aren’t pretty enough, etc.

It’s bad enough for a girl to hear this from Seventeen magazine, it’s another to hear it from her mother. And if the girl has a nose similar to her mother, you can bet she’ll never be happy with it again.

My big issue with the book occurs on the last page. After the mom has her Bandaids taken off, she is featured with the waist of a Barbie Doll and a “perfect nose,” standing in front of a Disney Princess pink background smiling brightly. It’s as though all of her problems have been fixed with the plastic surgery.

I don’t like the idea of teaching kids that if you’re a little skinnier or your chest a little bigger, suddenly you’re a princess. The book ignores “inner beauty.” All the things that I think make my mom beautiful are apparently irrelevant unless she’s a size zero supermodel. It encourages kids to strive for an unattainable beauty, while ignoring all the beauty all ready surrounding us.

So you know what I think. What about you? Check out the excerpts and let me know.