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Watch out, Barbie: New doll makes 'average' beautiful Nickolay Lamm is giving Barbie a much-needed reality check. March 11, 2014, 9:56 AM EDT / Updated March 11, 2014, 10:02 AM EDT ...
The 19-year-old actress and singer’s much talked about look for this year’s Oscars has been replicated with a new Barbie doll. “When I was little, I didn’t have [a Barbie] that looked like ...
No Barbie proportions here, this doll promotes realistic beauty standards. ... “I created ‘Normal Barbie’ because I wanted to show that average is beautiful,” Lamm says about his experiment.
A Facebook campaign has been launched to urge Mattel to release a bald Barbie doll -- the goal is to reassure girls who have lost their hair to disease that bald can be beautiful.