She's a problematic icon. A recent Harmony Healthcare study revealed that an overwhelming 82% of the 1,000 female participants think Barbie dolls — which take center stage in a highly ...

Barbie likely wouldn't exist if Mattel's founder hadn't stumbled across Bild Lilli, a plastic doll based on a comic strip. For years Ruth Handler had struggled to convince her colleagues to make ...

Muhammad’s Barbie doll rocks a hijab, just as the athlete did during the 2016 Olympics. REUTERS “I was told, as a kid, that I had big legs,” says the bronze medalist.

Now, the dolls will be further explored by CBS Studios, which is developing a series based on the book You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel V. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side by Orly Lobel.

When Barbie first debuted in 1959, the doll was light-skinned, slender, blonde, with a narrow waist, ample bosom and teetering on impossibly high heels. That mold of the doll persisted for decades ...

Although Barbie’s feet have stood for years as a sort of visual shorthand for the doll itself, Dr. Priya Parthasarathy, a podiatric surgeon, said that if Barbie were human, she would be wise to ...

These longtime fans of the doll had high expectations, and concerns, for her big-screen live-action debut. By Esther Zuckerman Before going to see “Barbie,” the doll collector Laura Maar had ...