I think I just suffered whiplash.
It's from violently shaking my head at this article in the NY Times, about the "Mom Job" or "Mommy Makeover" - plastic surgery which aims to erase any and all evidence that a woman has had a baby. Last year in the USA, according to the article, 325,000 women between the ages of 20 and 39 went under the knife to correct the "defects" imposed by pregnancy and/or breastfeeding.
I guess it's too late for these women, but perhaps their daughters will catch this video from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty:
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Geez. What can you say. It's just unbelievable that some people think of side effects of bringing life into this world as 'defects'. I wonder where this all started? Was it society's obsession with unrealistic 'beauty'? Or maybe some greedy plastic surgeons preying on women with low self exsteem?
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