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 ...

The dolls, which are currently available online at the Mattel Shop for $49.99, are part of Barbie’s ongoing Career of the Year collection, which began in 2010.

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 ...