They bought me pink dresses and sparkly skirts for my Barbies, but I often stuffed them away and instead dressed my Barbies in Ken's clothes.
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But I said, 'If you're going to play wedding, you're going to get two female Barbies and two male Barbies, and you're going to have gay weddings as well as hetero weddings.
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When I asked my editor friend Julie if I could get her young daughters Barbies, she balked, relenting only when I found President Barbies (long before Hillary, Elizabeth, Amy and Kamala were in the running.) Stopping by, they were awed by the Batgirl and Poison Ivy Barbies I'd kept in their original containers on my shelf.
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When Disney makes Barbies of your movie's characters and you just want to stare at them all day in disbelief because you loved Barbies as a girl but never had any like these.
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They sing about shopping and Barbies and staying up late.
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Going to Toys 'R' Us and buying Barbies was normal.
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So, the toymaker introduced the first curvy and petite Barbies.
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He didn't grow up dressing Barbies or dreaming of cabarets.
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I've always been very effeminate, loved playing with Barbies and dolls.
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"Four hundred Barbies doesn't sound like much for what we've received."
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I don't have Barbies, but everyone will get a Hot Wheels.
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It's not known, though, how career Barbies might affect kids' aspirations.
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"When Disney makes Barbies of your movie's characters and you just want to stare at them all day in disbelief because you loved Barbies as a girl but never had any like these," she captioned the photo.
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"The new Barbies are lovely," Spencer shares of Mattel's size-inclusive launch.
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A little girl looks shocked as a volunteer hands her two Barbies.
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Amazon "Barbies" have also been found in girls' graves from the time.
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She loves Barbies, playing with her dolls, just like any other kid.
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Some dolls that work well include Barbies and mini American Girl dolls.
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My family left everything behind: our language, our Barbies, our familiar culture.
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And around another corner: still other windows filled simply with giant Barbies.
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These were the Barbies for sale at the end of the tour.
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These 33 new Barbies are making sure more people can do just that.
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We get four Barbies, two girl's sundresses, and a blue ceramic duck ($25.28).
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And so she made little replica Barbies of each girl in the video.
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That was so never a part of what we were doing with Barbies.
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And now, the brand is introducing one of its most modern Barbies yet.
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African-American Barbies and other ethnic versions were introduced starting in the late 1960s.
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The 29-year-old programmer, who now lives in Vancouver, loved playing with Barbies.
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In one Melody Maker interview, Hanna compared it to being reduced to Riot Barbies.
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In Transit A BEVY OF BARBIES IN MONTREAL It's all Barbie, all the time.
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Wardrobe sets up rails with enough pink clothing to drown an aisle of Barbies.
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I don't love the message Barbies sent little girls anyway so I'm with you.See?
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Wailing tantrums were pitched in the aisles between the Barbies and the Beanie Babies.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Australian is known for many things — kangaroos, koala bears, beaches and barbies.
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But one thing the dolls definitely are not, Mattel says, are gender-neutral Barbies.
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Barbies Brooklynn once collected line shelves above the bed, right near her dangling dream catcher.
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What do they like—the typical stuff, Spider-Man, Barbies, My Little Pony, whatever cartoon.
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For good measure, we also threw in the new Barbies that have recently come out.
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From Barbies to chokers, stuff we loved in the '90s are back in full force.
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Today, Mattel announced a new group of Barbies to the brand's Fashionista collection of dolls.
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My daughter also incorporates Barbies, Disney Princess dolls, and smaller baby dolls in her play.
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For Shapiro, her collection of 68 Barbies, and the feminist ideals they encouraged, led the way.
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Plus, there's a cute bar dog named Rufus and a chandelier made out of naked Barbies.
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"Played with a Legolas action figure instead of barbies when I was a kid," added another.
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From TVs to thermostats to Barbies, it seems just about everything is becoming "smart" these days.
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There are over 73,000 Barbies on display, and each is a one-of-a-kind creation.
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There's something naïve and playful about them, a riff on the '60s Barbies Viti so loves.
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My 6-year-old daughter is desperate for Barbies, but what she wants most is makeup.
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Girls get together to play with their Barbies, and it ends up being a storytelling experience.
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The group mailed news stations TV-ready videos showing drill-wielding Barbies operating on GI Joes.
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Last year, Mattel began working with National Geographic to create a new line of scientist Barbies.
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Ruby brings all her Barbies into the tub, and Esme hangs out in her bath chair.
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But I knew I was still a girl, and I always liked dolls, Barbies in particular.
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Mattell released a line of real-women-inspired Barbies featuring inspirational figures, including French chef Hélène Darroze.
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One line of Barbies now has wheelchairs, and another doll was launched with a removable prosthetic leg.
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I'm 2100 – I was playing Barbies at 13, and the next thing I know I'm in Japan.
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In March 2019, the company released its most diverse range of Barbies to date, the Fashionista line.
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You could see life-size versions of Firefighter, Astronaut, and Hawaiian Vacation Barbies' outfits in the closet.
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Last week, Mattel continued the doll's makeover, introducing Barbies in three new body shapes: tall, curvy and petite.
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Madonna might be the original Material Girl, but her twins are dabbling — they just got their first Barbies!
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As a toddler, my mother would carefully show me the vintage Barbies she'd been collecting since middle school.
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In January, it launched a collection of Barbies that represent three different body types: tall, curvy, and petite.
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I always had Barbies and Ken dolls, whose hair I wanted to play with and was always styling.
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During the interview, 7-year-old Leah was asked if her NFL dad was good at playing Barbies.
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Mattel and Target teamed up to outfit the new Barbies in mini versions of the store's latest swimsuits.
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The doll debuted Wednesday at the Makers Conference, where Wambach talked about playing with Barbies throughout her childhood.
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"I wanted to show that 3D models aren't all about Barbies and they can represent reality," he said.
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It'll be the kind of girl power-packed experience we've been dreaming about since we played with Barbies.
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When he was 21, he started making clothes for his sister's Barbies out of tissue paper and tinfoil.
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Her jacket was emblazoned with the iconic logo as well as emblems of other Barbies, different accessories and unicorns.
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While having Barbies wear shirts supporting LGBTQ+ rights may seem like a small step, it's a meaningful one nonetheless.
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Barbies start at $9.99, while Mattel's Elsa doll — one of the most in-demand toys last year — costs $28.
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As a child, I just wanted to do my coloring, read my books, and design bedrooms for my Barbies.
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I played with all kinds of dolls and Barbies, and I didn't grow up thinking I need a man.
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A small group of pranksters bought Teen Talk Barbies and Talking Duke GI Joes — and switched their voice boxes.
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Barbies in this line will also include different types of ability, such as a prosthetic limb and wheelchair use.
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And then there were us kids, who grew up collecting postal addresses and names like other children collect Barbies.
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Mattel recently partnered with a meditation app to launch a line of wellness Barbies to promote self-care through play.
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Today she is actually several Barbies, a gang of dolls more diverse and less infuriating in terms of body proportions.
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The clips show dads using Barbies to play the roles of patients and students to their daughters' doctors and teachers.
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Favors included "the most diverse offering of Barbies," tie-dye shirts and yummy edible take-homes courtesy of Sugar Factory.
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Mattel announced new additions to its Fashionista Barbie, adding Barbies with braided hair textures, new curvy body types and disabilities.
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The characters are portrayed by IRL heroes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling ... so basically they're all Barbies now.
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And mothers in Pittsburgh have started making and selling hijabs for Barbies in a bid to make play more inclusive.
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"Yeah, one time we were playing Barbies," she started, but was interrupted by her dad jokingly telling her to stop.
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The deleted faux blooper features the character Stinky Pete (voiced by Kelsey Grammer) talking to two Barbies in his box.
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The Bad Barbies were dealt a major blow with the 2012 arrest of alleged leader Maria Mejia by the feds.
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Click ahead to see the Barbies, decked out in their warrior costumes, and get excited to see Wonder Woman & co.
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Where were the Barbies who looked like us — string cheese humans with toothpick backbones, chronic rashes and erratic chin chair?
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The ballerina herself played with Barbies until she was 14, she says, before ballet started taking up more of her time.
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Chloe ended up with about 303 Barbies to share, and Shriners is making sure everyone gets to enjoy the doll haul.
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From Legos to Barbies, toys are an indispensable part of childhood — and plastics are an indispensable part of the toy industry.
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" New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd even resorted to characterizing Palin as various types of Barbies -- "Caribous Barbie" and "Valentino Barbie.
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When I was five, I was repeatedly falling off my bike and making my Barbies do weird things to each other.
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Mattel, which manufactures Hot Wheels toys and Barbies, launched an "inspiring women" series of dolls featuring the late painter in March.
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Later when gift-wrapped Barbies showed up on our doorstep, we donated the impossibly shaped dolls to the local thrift shop.
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THEN I did play with Barbies, and then I played with what I called teddies, which is just stuffed plush animals.
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Those of us who owned Barbies that predate Wellness Barbie have been using our dolls for true self-care for decades.
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Now, when I was younger, I could play with my barbies and make up stories, or play "family" with my sisters.
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Chloe originally wanted to buy 100 Barbies, so her doctor could give them to kids when he made them a new leg.
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Toy making giant Mattel has been flirting with high tech for a number of years now, from 3D printers to hologram Barbies.
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As someone who threw away her Barbies long ago, I can't help but look at Curvy Barbie with some glimmer of hope.
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Sales have lately been falling (despite Mattel's introduction, in 22006, of "body diversity" Barbies that come in different sizes, shapes, and colors).
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Harry also wants Barbies, gravitates toward pink and never seems more comfortable in his own skin than when dressing in women's clothing.
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Tall vitrines hold an archive of runway pieces, including Rihanna's cape, which have been scaled down to fit a collection of Barbies.
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A receipt from his early days shows a variety of purchases, everything from vacuums to Barbies, LEGO sets to stainless steel flatware.
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While most of us were hogging Barbies at his age, Tyler Boone has been selflessly growing out his hair for two years. Why?
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Unbeknownst to Catherine, once Katelyn hopped on the online shopping store, she treated herself to almost $400 worth of Barbies, games and toys.
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The 18-year-old and her family donated about 430 of the Barbies on Monday to Shriners Hospital for Children in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all Barbies; now, shoppers can find dolls with vitiligo, a skin condition that affects pigmentation.
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Mattel debuted their new line of Barbies with three different body shapes — petite, tall, and curvy — in March 2016, alongside the hashtag #TheDollEvolves.
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Last week, Mattel unveiled two new Barbies as part of its Fashionista line: Barbie in a wheelchair and Barbie with a prosthetic leg.
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"I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love Trolls!" admitted Kendrick during a press event for the DreamWorks Animation musical comedy.
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He tells us that once, he pulled up to the house and saw a pre-transition Zoey playing in the front window with Barbies.
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Before black-haired Barbies and the plethora of Asian YouTube stars who make a living by mocking their immigrant parents lovingly, there was Mulan.
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Lauren Kelley's digital prints and stop-motion short videos use modified Barbies to tell stories about womanhood that are sad, funny, surreal, and touching.
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A stunningly massive portion of the app is devoted to genetically blessed users, e-boys like Benji Krol and human Barbies like Loren Gray.
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I couldn't help scribbling exclamation marks beside the descriptions of the games Chula and her sister play, in which unfortunate Barbies are brutally mutilated.
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Throughout the years, consumers have seen toys such as Barbies evolve through different eras but toys associated with violence, such as guns, have not.
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The rapper just released "Black Barbies," her remix of Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles," and the track includes two lines dissing the president-elect's immigration policies.
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Nirui came up with the concept last year, when she and a friend worked on a series of customized, faux-designer getups for vintage Barbies.
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" Korra told Ivy that her Barbies have to adhere to the house rules too "so they can be like us and keep their house clean.
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"I've noticed there is a trend in SL, away from looking like flawless Barbies with perfect poreless and smooth skin and skinny shapes," she said.
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The move comes a year after Mattel introduced Barbies with moveable ankles that would allow the dolls to wear flat shoes for the first time.
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In January, we met the first collection of Barbies with body proportions that a woman wouldn't need to surgically remove a few ribs to achieve.
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The new Barbies come in curvy, tall, and petite body types, and they're also available in seven skin tones, 22 eye colors, and 24 hairstyles.
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Which is why the new line of Wellness Barbies—designed to "introduce girls to the benefits of self-care through play"—is such a bummer.
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Mattel, the toy company behind the iconic doll, recently unveiled a more inclusive line of Barbies and feminist icons like Rosa Parks and Sally Ride.
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The company is betting that shoppers coming in to buy a new TV during the holidays might want to leave with Barbies or Legos, too.
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Ms. Rowland helped invent a lucrative new category in a toy market dominated by blobbish baby dolls and buxom Barbies: dolls that looked like girls.
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I wasn't surprised to hear that Mattel partnered with Headspace, a meditation app, to introduce a line of wellness Barbies to promote self-care through play.
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"When my older daughter was little, she played with Barbies and I caught her playing wedding one day with my nanny at the time," she said.
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All the Barbies model Target's latest swimwear line, and although you can't purchase the doll-size suits, you can snag one (or a few!) for yourself!
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Dr. Antonio Russo, a surgeon in Milan, keeps his collection of 8,000 Barbies in its own apartment and lent some of them to the show here.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Earlier this week, in anticipation of International Women's Day, toy manufacturer Mattel announced its new Inspiring Women series of Barbies.
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That morning I woke up super early and made my bed, I placed my Barbies in a row and put on my favorite pink T-shirt.
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Mattel's Fashionista line of Barbies, for example, aims to show current fashions and hairstyles on dolls with a wide range of body types and skin tones.
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In a constantly busy, over-connected world, these Barbies demonstrate how important it is to take time for yourself -- whether through yoga, meditation or other routines.
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Nine-year-old Gianni Graham of Norfolk, Virginia has a lofty goal of collecting 1,000 Barbies to give away to children in homeless shelters and foster care.
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How do you get kids excited to save money (as opposed to, you know, ordering $400 worth of Barbies off of Amazon while you're not paying attention)?
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It doesn't come with dolls, but it accommodates dolls up to 12 inches, so your children can fill the castle with their favorite Disney Princesses or Barbies.
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"You know there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women," Titus tells Kimmy when she moves his Barbies out of their shower.
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One morning last summer, she discovered my old Barbies in a closet at my parents' house and dropped immediately to the floor to begin playing with them.
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The Monster High doll line — the so-called Goth Barbies — which was racking up $1.5 billion in annual sales a few years ago, has collapsed, analysts said.
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In 2019, Mattel began selling Barbies in wheelchairs and claimed that over half of all dolls sold by the company came from a diverse set of backgrounds.
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As journalist Ashely Oerman wrote for Cosmopolitan, play is self-care for kids; the simple act of dumping all your Barbies on the floor is self-care.
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It was her treasure chest — not filled with Barbies or plastic trinkets, but a trove of fashion as pure joy, puzzle pieces that helped Totah put herself together.
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Regardless of whether the dolls were dressed in swimsuits or more modest clothing, the girls who played with the Barbies showed a higher dissatisfaction in their own bodies.
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What began as a way to scrape together rent rolled into the dough that funded my Barbies, Hello Kitty pencil boxes, questionable adolescent fashion choices and first car.
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When I was a child, I would fearlessly express my femininity; playing dress-up, coloring princesses, and raiding my neighbor's bin of Barbies every chance I could get.
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According to a Mattel representative, some of the new Barbies — including one with vitiligo and Ken with long hair — are available online and in stores now for $9.99.
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DuVernay excitedly shared the photo of the stylish dolls, emotionally noting how she never had such a diverse representation of powerful women present in her Barbies as a child.
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"I'm not gonna lie, you guys may not believe this, I was a Barbie kid… I played with Barbies my whole life," the 35-year-old told the audience.
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My mom would buy me army men to make me a boy, but I'd have the best of both worlds, I'd have the army men guarding my barbies, hello!
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Introducing the toy at the Glamour event highlighted Ms. Muhammad's status as an accomplished athlete and the role that Barbies have played in the formative years of American girls.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE In a Barbie world Check out the Hilton hotel suite in Mexico City that's tricked out with a Barbie DreamCamper and six decades' worth of rare Barbies.
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The doll is among 14 new Barbies honoring "boundary-breaking women" around the world to show the next generation they can be anything they want to be, Mattel said.
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The company also rolled out Barbies in three new body shapes - tall, curvy and petite - last week to attract young girls, who increasingly prefer electronic toys and tablets to dolls.
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" Although the girls stayed silent when asked about how they thought having a little brother would change the dynamic in their house, their mother replied, "Maybe not as many Barbies?
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The company in January also rolled out Barbies in three new body shapes - tall, curvy and petite - to attract young girls, who increasingly prefer electronic toys and tablets to dolls.
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In honor of International Women's Day last week, Mattel announced its plans to release its "Inspiring Women" line of Barbies, featuring trailblazers like Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart, and Katherine Johnson.
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"Playing with Barbies that may or may not have looked like I felt growing up, I think that this is a really impactful statement," said Wambach, who is openly gay.
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"I remember being little, and I named all my boy Barbies after Riley because I thought he looked like them — he looked like Ken," said Katie Pritchard, 17, a cousin.
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I had other black Barbies, but none of them embodied natural hair in a truthful way; they were simply carbon copies of their white counterparts, painted with a shade of chocolate.
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Among the women in Hollywood to receive their own Barbies as part of Mattel's "Shero" series are Zendaya, Kristin Chenoweth, Gabby Douglas, Emmy Rossum, Trisha Yearwood, Misty Copeland and Ava DuVernay.
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What kind of a week includes Congress turning on the president, Barbies in wheelchairs, adorable wire fox terriers, and actual, genuine discussion over where politicians fall on the moldy jam issue?
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But the darkest skin tone available — a much deeper tone than previous black Barbies — is only available in original and petite body sizes, according to a scan of the Barbie website.
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She stuck with it in her post-teenage years, celebrating her 20th birthday with a Barbies-and-princesses sleepover, her room covered in glitter and her guests attired in pink pajamas.
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This week Mattel introduced dolls in two separate series of Barbies: "Inspiring Women," based on historical figures, and new additions to its "Shero" line of dolls named for inspirational contemporary women.
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Leo is a boy, and since before he could speak, his parents said, he has gravitated toward things traditionally associated with girls — he loves pink and Barbies and anything that sparkles.
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One of my new friends and I were each only allowed one Barbie, she, because Barbies were expensive, me, because my mother said the smell of them gave her a headache.
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Barbecues are events where sausage-heavy cooking is done on barbies in backyards and public parks, and in hardware store parking lots and out front of polling places on Election Day.
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And unlike other girls' toys at the time, they didn't project a lot of romantic love or sexualization onto me at an age where it wasn't necessary, like Barbies or Bratz do.
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This year is the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek series, and to celebrate you can expect all sorts of anniversary-shaped events and products — including, yes, new Star Trek Barbies.
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While they raised Alex as the little boy they'd always wanted, over time they found she preferred Barbies to Tonka trucks, related more to girls and displayed mannerisms unlike her male peers.
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Mattel, the company that conquered the doll world by dividing it into idealized Barbies and Kens, is introducing a new line of gender-neutral dolls for boys, girls and children in between.
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The show was all about the performances, which included pop star Pink singing her single "Barbies" and Urban debuting the song "Female," a response to the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment and assault scandal.
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And Viti's dolls aren't all plastic-fantastic retro Barbies: Atop the aforementioned hatbox perches a doll by Lena and Katya Popovy, Russian twin sisters who hand-craft exquisite, eye-wateringly expensive porcelain poupées.
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This eight-episode documentary series takes play seriously: It dives into the origin and development of some of the most popular toys of the past century, from Barbies to lightsabers to G.I. Joe.
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The showcase also has a hall of fame with photos of women who have inspired the Barbies in the Role Model line, including the film director Ava DuVernay and the ballerina Misty Copeland.
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The gift of learning Carmen Jones-Weaks said her 10-year-old daughter has plenty of things, from skateboards to video games to Barbies, but says her favorite possession of all is her laptop.
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In what is unquestionably Barbie's "biggest change" since the toy first hit stores in 1959, Mattel is making room for other Barbies — 33 to be exact — to have a chance at dominating the shelves.
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The El Segundo, California-based toymaker has made several tweaks to Barbies, by adding a variety of skin tones, plus-sized and hijab-wearing models and science kits to make the products more educational.
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Barbies are so popular that the new dolls have the potential to normalize the idea of women in science and engineering, said Kris Macomber, a sociology professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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In 1993, a group of guerrilla artists calling themselves the Barbie Liberation Organization went so far as to swap the voice boxes of G.I. Joes and Barbies and place them back on store shelves.
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That doesn't mean that I think women have to look like space Barbies all the time, either, but I do think that people should have options and the freedom to choose their own preferences.
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Throughout the years, the pair have had some unforgettable moments, including a 2008 comedic parody entitled, "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Kanye," or the 303 "Tim and Faith Have Barbies" sketch.
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Throughout the years, the pair have had some unforgettable moments, including a 2008 comedic parody entitled, "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Kanye," or the 2011 "Tim and Faith Have Barbies" sketch.
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Mommy bloggers felt forced to participate in the elf wars, promoting their brand as quirky parents who have the time and energy to spend hours on an elf photo booth with a couple of Barbies.
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The girls may have felt like their new dolls were more an extension of the family than new toys, though, considering they begin singing "The Finger Family Song" in full force while playing with their Barbies.
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With the entire collection on display — and Barbies varying in height, size and skin tones, rocking everything from dresses to funky tresses — one thing was clear: This is how it should have been the whole time.
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"I definitely do support Jada, that's my sister and I support her 100 percent," Latifah told PEOPLE Thursday in Los Angeles at the Mattel hosted "Reshape the Conversation" dinner to celebrate the new line of Barbies.
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The same little girl they used to tuck into bed at night, who loved to play with her Barbies and who would sneak extra biscuits from the biscuit tin when she thought there was nobody watching.
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A good thing about owning Barbies if you're a little queer girl is that you can look at their naked bodies and not feel like anyone will say anything weird to you for it, Kristen Arnett writes.
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After an over-the-top birthday party featuring a bright pink ball pit, relationship status-themed cocktails, and a cake topped with drunk Barbies, the vintage Rolls Royce adds a splash of subdued sophistication to Jenner's birthday.
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Under criticism, Mattel has been trying to push the doll into becoming more empowering, or at least more expansive, in its portrayals of femininity with "I can be president Barbie" in 2012 and scientist and businesswoman Barbies.
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The castle does not come with dolls, so you'll have to buy your own princess dolls to fill the castle, or use any doll up to 12 inches, which includes Barbies, Disney princess dolls, and similar dolls.
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Kendrick, 30, discussed her upcoming film Trolls, saying she was drawn to voicing a character in the animated movie because she loves the quirky imperfections of the dolls – something she definitely didn't feel about her Barbies growing up.
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There was the 22015 comedic parody "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Kanye," which Paisley (a 22004-time CMA Awards winner) penned, and the 22006 "Tim and Faith Have Barbies" sketch, which was Underwood's idea.
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One of five children, she made up "epic" stories with her Barbies ("soap operas with different locations and cliff-hangers—that's when I started playing with character"), but she wasn't blind to what was happening outside her door.
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" As Mr. Dorsey discussed his upbringing — he loved Barbies and his heroes were Carol Burnett and Michael Jackson — he sang-spoke a line that carried weight: "Who was the only guy in his graduating class buying maxi-pads?
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Mattel's craftiest marketing ploy is the notion that children who play with a doll who has a career might someday aspire to such careers themselves, ergo Barbies are good for young girls and not in any way retrograde.
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But then again, you don't normally happen upon an Instagram feed like cyguy83's, where the bio reads "Doll Maker, artist, Motherf*cking sorcerer" and the account features Barbies that have been transformed into frighteningly accurate tiny celebrity replicas.
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He's now back in Australia, where 2100 percent of the population lives on the beach in small houses on stilts called "beach barbies" and the 28 percent of time they spend away from the beach is still beach-adjacent.
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Corridor Café is whipping up a coffee drink that will bring you back to the days of Barney & Friends, Barbies, Power Rangers, and more with just one sip — and it's all thanks to one of our fave childhood cereals.
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Having observed Japanese "dollers," who as a form of "cosplay" (costume play) paint their closed eyelids to resemble the wide-open eyes of Barbies or anime figures, Ms. Simmons made a sequence of portraits she called "How We See," in 2015.
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Still, nine in ten American girls between the ages of three and ten own at least one Barbie doll, and, even without counting those buried in landfills, there might well be more Barbies in the United States than there are people.
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Their haul of more than 400 Barbies — plus the additional dolls from Mattel — were delivered on Monday, where they will "serve as tools in therapeutic education and medical play for kids facing amputation to help explain their situation," the release said.
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" The filmmaker collective she started, Array, was a host of the lunch along with the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, and among the swag handed out were "women director" Barbies, replete with miniature viewfinders and inspiring packaging: "You can be a film director too!
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After last year logging its most robust sales growth in more than a decade, the toy industry is now on pace to do something it hasn't done since 1999: sell enough Barbies, Legos and bouncy balls to lift its sales 7 percent.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MIAMI BEACH — The first thing visitors see at Untitled Art Fair this year is a literal wall of garbage: limbless Barbies, empty tequila bottles, clothes hangers, sandals, and other detritus, all crushed together in a cement hunk.
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"Last night, the best man I've ever met got down on one knee in my little pink childhood home… in the same room I played with my ponies and barbies and asked me the easiest question I've ever been asked," she wrote.
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It's an entertaining story, and it exudes a patent-pink brand of elementary feminism that a 10-year-old girl — at least this privileged, naive, white, heteronormative 10-year-old girl, who grew up playing with Barbies in suburbia — could understand intuitively.
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The 33-year-old Singaporean favors minimalist decor, but the Barbies — and 3,000 dolls of other kinds — dominate three sides of the main room and spill over to fill nine mirrored cabinets in his dressing room and the shelves of his study.
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Special guest Pink sat with daughter Willow in the audience, and when the singer went backstage to prepare for her performance of "Barbies," she turned to the members of Little Big Town – who are all parents themselves — to keep an eye on Willow.
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Her half-sister, 16-year-old Ivy Ho, tweeted pictures of the well-disciplined toddler when she realised what she was doing: my little sister got a barbie dream house N HER ASIAN ASS MAKES ALL THE BARBIES TAKE OFF THEIR SHOES BEFORE ENTERING pic.twitter.
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Also a post-credit "blooper" scene in "Toy Story 2" in which the prospector character Stinky Pete is interrupted while offering two Barbie dolls a role in the next "Toy Story" film — suggestively taking one of the Barbies' hands in his — will also be removed.
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Few groups embody the culture of music fandom better than the Barbz, or the Barbies, the fans of Nicki Minaj, whom she named herself, a decade ago, when she was a sparkling newcomer in a hip-hop landscape with a notable lack of female stars.
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A Girl Ordered $400 Worth of Barbies on Amazon Katelyn Lunt, 6, logged into her mom Catherine's Amazon account to check the delivery status of a Barbie doll on the way … and managed to add a few other things to the list while she was in there.
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Picture Prompts In the last few years, toy companies have been making dolls that are representative of a wider variety of people, including a diverse line of Ken dolls, an American Girl doll with a diabetes kit, a transgender doll and Barbies with different body types.
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She'd taught me to put pajama bottoms on my head so that when we danced like go-go girls it felt like we had long, swingy hair, and to dress our Barbies, with their shapely symmetrical legs, in fashionable outfits for their dates with G.I. Joe and Ken.
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"A few years back, a friend and I created a series of Barbies that were dressed in runway looks by gender-bending and boundary-pushing designers that we were drawn to, such as Jacquemus, Eckhaus Latta and Vetements," Nirui tells Refinery29 of the project that put her on the digital map.
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Chris Brown, Drake, and Lil Wayne, The Pinkprint, 2014 My apologies to the Barbies for not realizing until after I'd posted that yesterday marked two years since the release of "Only," the monumental Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Lil Wayne posse cut that defined a moment and—well, so much has happened since then.
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There are four Barbies in the collection: a spa doll with a magazine and candles, a "Wellness Dream" doll with a sleep mask and pillow, a fitness doll who carries a yoga mat and gym bag complete with a protein bar, and a pampering doll who comes with a bath and loofah.
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Like many parents who unknowingly push their kids into the diet trap, she had good intentions — after all, she was the same mother who cautioned me against playing with Barbies due to unrealistic body types, the same woman who supported, nurtured, and raised me to have confidence and a shockingly strong sense of self.
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With the fabulous Matt Phillips as Queen Gregory, a prostrate and lame King, and a protagonist in the apparent midsts of mental illness, The Coward marks a modern moment; gender lines are blurred irreversibly, mental health and its treatments are on the tips of our tongues, and lead actresses need no longer look like Barbies.
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Wilde's directorial choices are creative and refreshing: A scene told through the perspective of Molly and Amy as Barbies is subversive and funny without being obvious; in the film's climax, which I won't spoil, she lets the camera linger on reaction shots rather than focus on the person who's speaking, enabling us to watch the words painfully sink in.
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"Understanding that your child is having these feelings, and their body is changing, and they're experiencing all these new things that an older person should be experiencing, but at the same time, they come home and they still want to play (with) Barbies," said Rodriguez, a mom of three whose oldest son is a soon-to-be seventh-grader.
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Wearing slightly off-theme costumes were: Katie Couric, who dressed as Elizabeth Holmes of the Theranos blood-testing scandal; New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, who went as Bill Cunningham, the eulogized fashion and society photographer for The New York Times; and Michael Kors, who wore a gangster outfit festooned with Barbies ("Guys and Dolls," get it?).
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The rest is mostly filler: Lauren comes in wearing a tiny white doily so Ben can finally "show her off" (yuck), Jimmy Kimmel mashes some naked Barbies together like a 5-year-old (no), and Chris Harrison pulls the "we flew your pastor all the way here" card so many times that Ben's bobble head is spinning (do it!
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But that's not the case in 2019, when Pete's implicit quid pro quo offer to the Barbies comes off as a none-too-funny sendup of Hollywood's very real and harmful "casting couch" history of (typically male) executives wielding their power over ingénues looking to break into Hollywood, by offering them acting roles in exchange for sexual favors.
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Bebe: Growing up as the only child of two Jewish parents, I was very allowed to do whatever I wanted, so I spent all my time in the backyard dancing and fantasizing and playing with Barbies and going to dance class and when things got hard as a kid, I started using that artistic expression as a coping mechanism to escape.
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For instance, "Internet of Things" devices from Nest cameras to Mattel's interactive Barbies can offer other ways to spy:When, say, a television has a microphone and a network connection, and is reprogrammable by its vendor, it could be used to listen in to one side of a telephone conversation taking place in its room – no matter how encrypted the telephone service itself might be.
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