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Many young girls grow up playing with Barbie dolls. Some have argued that the dolls' figures are unrealistic. So should Mattel, which makes Barbie dolls, create a plus-size Barbie?
Three new types of Barbie have reached the UK. ... the dolls would be overweight or obese. The average British woman, at 5ft 3in (161.9cm) with a waist of 87.6cm (34.5in), ...
Once again, Barbie is at the center of the latest body image debate, according to The Huffington Post. The website Plus-Size-Modeling.com recently asked their Facebook fans a question: “Should ...
Artist Nickolay Lamm, 24, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, created a Barbie-like doll based on CDC measurements of the average 19-year-old woman, and photographed it alongside a traditional Barbie doll.
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 ...