Interesting points of view

Okay, to get the full effect of this post you will need to read my friend's post about plastic surgery on her blog. . . science geek. It's a good one, and on it I shared a little secret that I hadn't really told anyone. The secret is that when Otto and I got married we agreed that when we had children, we would have them one right after another and then I would be allowed to get a tummy tuck.
Yes, that is right. I have no problems with getting a tummy tuck and I have been called vain for it. However I do not think that this is as bad is it is being portrayed. You see, many people put off having kids until they have careers, or a house, or get to travel (now many people just can't have kids, and I am not grouping them into this category at all) and yet, I chose not to put off having children because I knew how important it was to Otto and I to have our family while we were young. Basically I have spent the last 10 years being pregnant.
I do have a pretty good self esteem. However it does get embarrassing when I have to put on a swimming suit because I know that my body does not look the way I think it should look. Please note that I did not say the way that Hollywood thinks it should look, but I have alot of extra skin because of all of the babies that I have had. Now, I also have quite a bit of weight left over because when I got pregnant with Lee I still had all of the weight that I had after losing Robin. So I basically started out this last pregnancy with 6 months of pregnancy weight. This weight is something that I am working on getting rid of, and I am doing it the hard way with good old diet and exercise.
However, please know that no matter how much weight I lose I will always have this extra skin around my mid section. I will not be able to get rid of it with simple creams, with diet, with exercise, with anything because it has been stretched for basically 10 years. I did not choose to wait in between pregnancies until my body got back to normal because I didn't see the point.
You may still think that my desire for a tummy tuck is vain, but I mean aren't we all a bit vain in some ways? Do women not wear make-up to look better, bras to keep our girls perky, clothes that slim our figure, sunscreen and hats to help prevent wrinkles, face cream to prevent wrinkles, work out to stay slim, sacrifice our favorite foods to lose a few pounds? If you are someone who does any one of these things how can you call me vain? How can you tell me that you are better than me because you don't have a desire for a tummy tuck and I do? I don't call myself more righteous because I have more children.
I think that it is unfair and very judgemental for someone to point to someone and say that they are vain because they want a certain thing. Just like it would be very judgemental for me to point to someone and say they are lazy because they are fat. When it comes down to it, we don't know what other people's circumstances are and we haven't walked a mile in their shoes. So what makes us an expert on other people's choices?