According to the Houston Chronicle, it's all about nip and tuck when it comes to 'bouncing back'. Called a 'mommy makeover' in the US, more women in their mid-30s are having plastic surgery to rebound from the aftermath of birth.
Women start saying, 'Hmmm, I don't have to live with this body I've inherited from these kids,' "says Paul Fortes, a Houston plastic surgeon. " 'I don't have to be like my mother.' "
So basically, $30,000 and an unsettlingly high level of risk will get you 'back in your jeans' more comfortably. The debate about plastic surgery is not new for feminists but one that is only exacerbated by popular culture. When did it become okay for women to willingly subject themselves to be sliced and diced with veritable instruments of torture while they are unconscious and naked on a surgical table? And then of course, there is the recovery....swollen, bruised and bloody for many, many weeks.
Is this what the post-baby body comes down to? Why do flat stomachs have to be our only source of self?
Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/5133475.html
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