I know. It's Barbie! That's what girls play with, I spent my whole childhood playing with them, I should love them! However, I've always had an self-esteem issue and she has big shoes to fill ... actually she has tiny feet, but even with those tiny feet, those are some tiny feet to fill!
According to an article by South Shore Eating Disorders Collaborative
If Barbie were an actual women, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe!
If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
According to an article by South Shore Eating Disorders Collaborative
If Barbie were an actual women, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe!
If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
Picture is from an article in the New York Daily News.
Now I'm not saying Barbie's intent was to make us all have a horrible body image, (well, the old one was because there was a Slumber Party Barbie that was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions inside stating simply “Don’t eat.” ) but it can't be helped! How could she not?
After talking out loud non-stop about all the craziness of Barbie, one of my co-workers, Miss Valerie, who has smaller kids, said that they finally are making real Barbies with real human shapes and cool occupations, but they don't have any clothes that you can change your Barbie into and isn't that a big part of Barbie? Change her repeatedly and then lose half the clothes? Of course it is!
So what do you think about Barbie? Before you say anything, I know that I am exaggerating somewhat. I don't think that every girl that plays with Barbie is going to have a panic attack because they don't look like her, but still, there are the few that will, and I'm into protecting those few. <3
After talking out loud non-stop about all the craziness of Barbie, one of my co-workers, Miss Valerie, who has smaller kids, said that they finally are making real Barbies with real human shapes and cool occupations, but they don't have any clothes that you can change your Barbie into and isn't that a big part of Barbie? Change her repeatedly and then lose half the clothes? Of course it is!
So what do you think about Barbie? Before you say anything, I know that I am exaggerating somewhat. I don't think that every girl that plays with Barbie is going to have a panic attack because they don't look like her, but still, there are the few that will, and I'm into protecting those few. <3
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