HW 18: "Plastic Mommies" can appreciate motherhood too

My least favorite post of the week appeared on Salon (http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/10/04/plastic_moms/index.html). The blog post, Plastic Mommies, is a response to a New York Times article about different surgeries to repair mother’s bodies back to new. These “mommy makeovers” or “mommy jobs” consist liposuction, a tummy tuck and breast repair. On the blog post, Carol Lloyd says “For me, the advent of the mommy makeover is dismaying because motherhood has offered many of us an escape hatch from self-consciousness. Suddenly your body, after decades of experiencing its value as societal eye candy, transcends culture. It becomes food, furniture; it makes a life. That women are now paying to cut those vestiges from their bodies -- to erase that history -- seems not only self-loathing but misanthropic as well.” From what Lloyd says, she makes it sound like you don’t appreciate motherhood if you get plastic surgery. These mothers are probably spending thousands of dollars to get plastic surgery because they don’t feel sexy or beautiful anymore. It’s not like if you get plastic surgery you’re a bad mother or you don’t appreciate being a mother. I think it’s great if a mother chooses to get plastic surgery and if she chooses not to that’s great as well. Pregnancy does a toll on a woman’s body, and it’s amazing that we now have the technology to allow woman to feel better about them self through plastic surgery.