When the wealthy couple saw their newborn’s face, the mother gasped, “Take him away, he’s a monster.” They abandoned him at the hospital. A kind nurse raised him. Twenty years later, the couple desperately needed a rare surgery. The world-famous surgeon walked in, revealed his birthmark, and…

the psychological trauma of physical difference, and my core belief that cosmetic surgery should serve the suffering, not the vain.

It was watched by eight million people.

Included in that demographic, sitting in the sprawling, cavernous media room of their waterfront estate in Darien, were Celeste and Graham Sterling.

I knew they would watch it. The continue reading …