"Barbie’s body was never designed to be realistic. She was designed for girls to easily dress and undress. And she’s had many bodies over the years, ones that are poseable, ones that are cut for princess cuts, ones that are more realistic," Culmone said.
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Culmone also suggested that Barbie's critics were overreacting, and that the doll doesn't negatively impact young customers.
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"To little girls, they are putting themselves in that doll anyway. You have to remember that girls’ perceptions are so different than grown ups’ perceptions about what real is and what real isn’t, and what the influences are," she said.
Culmone said she sees no reason to alter Barbie's proportions at this time.
Mattel announced last week that Barbie sales have plunged 13%.
The doll's creator, Mattel, claims that the proportions were created for the ease of dressing and undressing the doll, not replicating the realistic size and shape of an adult woman. However, there is no such rationale for the very thin representation of Barbie in her TV show, movies, books, and range of online games.
Ruth Handler's Inspiration Behind the Barbie Doll. Barbara, Handler's daughter, served as the muse for Barbie's creation after Handler observed her playing with paper dolls. Driven by a desire to inspire children to envision their future dreams, she sought to innovate beyond the common plastic baby dolls of the time.
Since the 1970s, Barbie has been criticized for materialism (amassing cars, houses, and clothes) and unrealistic body proportions. In fact, in 1994 researchers in Finland announced that if Barbie were a real woman, she would not have enough body fat to menstruate.
Each doll had a recording reportedly randomly selected from 270 possibilities, including “Will we ever have enough clothes?", “You're my best friend” and “Math class is tough.”1 This last phrase sparked critiques from organisations such as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the American Association of ...
The Barbie of days past was known to promote body dysmorphia, imprinting on little girls an unrealistic body ideal that might plague them forever. That Barbie had an impossible figure, which in life-sized proportions would be 5'9”, 110 pounds, with a 39 inch bust, an 18 inch waist, 33 inch hips, and a size 3 shoe.
Yes, plump. Barbie's got a new body. Three new bodies, actually: petite, tall and curvy, in Mattel's exhaustively debated lexicon, and beginning Jan. 28 they will be sold alongside the original busty, thin-waisted form on Barbie.com.
A world-renowned little girls' plaything, Barbie is supposed to be 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 110 pounds, so underweight that she could not menstruate, the website reports.
Midge was sold "pregnant" with Nikki, who was a tiny baby inside Midge's magnetic removable womb. This led to some controversy with some consumers saying that the doll was inappropriate for children, or that it promoted teen pregnancy.
Some argue that her emphasis on fashion, beauty, and materialism strengthens stereotypes and limits girls' aspirations. They claim that Barbie fails to empower young girls to pursue careers in male-dominated fields or engage in activities traditionally seen as "boyish."
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. Barbie calls this a "full figure" and likes her weight at 110 lbs.
Kuwait. Kuwait announced it was banning the adventures of Barbie and Ken in the real world due to "ideas and beliefs that are alien to the Kuwaiti society and public order."
When we look at those specific slices, we do see some evidence that having some exposure to Barbie or other thin-type dolls similar to Barbie does impact young girls' experiences of body image. For example, we see lower body esteem and greater thin-ideal internalization.
Though there's been little research to prove the point, Barbie's shape has been widely criticized for years: in the mid-'90s, the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders calculated just how wildly out of proportion the Barbie doll was — according to Rehabs.com, it found that the average woman would have had to grow ...
But their biggest objection was that Barbie had breasts. This is despite the fact that "her 'figure' typified what the feminine ideal was in the late 1950s," Handler wrote. Handler wired Mattel's Japanese manufacturers to cut production by 40%, before going to her hotel room to cry, she wrote.
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