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Your Yucky Body

Posted by Rachel on November 11, 2007

Last month, I posted in response to a New York Times article on “the mommy makeover,” and the idiocy of titling the piece “Is the ‘Mommy Makeover’ Really Necessary?” For background on the topic, including plastic surgeons’ references to mama’s bodies as “deformed,” see that post.

Clever cartoonist Mikhaela has summed up the silliness with this installment (republished with permission):

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Heh. View more of Mikhaela’s political cartoons in her Flickr set.

3 Responses to “Your Yucky Body”

  1. [...] subject themselves to this for perkier breasts or a different nose or a thinner figure or a body that looks unaffected by having children.  And that when we’re discussing this stuff, I hope to be more conscienscious of this end of [...]

  2. That has to be the funniest, scariest, and saddest comic I’ve seen in a long time. Mikhaela rocks, and so do you, Rachel. I can’t wait to show this to my wife.

  3. Rachel said

    Thanks, CS.

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