Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Olds

Barbie is turning 50 today

They say a barbie is bought three times every second... (i dont know how they come up with this) However, after reading and finding out her Measurements have not changed. Except in 1990 something her waist was enlarged by i think two inches....

The question is. Do you think Barbie has helped or made worse the way little girls think of themselves? Why do you think that? Do you think it would be better for Barbie to change her measurements? as a bonus do you agree with Tattoo Barbie (you get to choose the tattoos for her to wear they are the washable kind?

Honestly I have no idea. My daughter has quite a few Barbie dolls (collector's and just for play) ... she was never TOTALLY into them. She played with them and that was the extent of it.

Even when I was little I never idolized or compared myself to a doll... *shrug*

I could careless about the measurments honestly. What good will it do to change them? Someone is ALWAYS going to find a problem with it. About the Tattoo Barbie? To each his own. I wouldn't buy it but that's just me.

I never had a problem with Gabby having Barbie dolls.She loves all of Barbies pretty clothes.Plus afer all Barbie is just a doll and a toy nothing more.When I was growing up I loved playing with Barbie dolls my BFF and I would play for hours with them.BArbeis was always the mom and Ken was the dad,then Skippers was the older ddd and so no.I did have a friend growing up who was not allowed to have a Barbie,because Barbie had"breasts" and resembled a real women.Even when I was 7 and 8 I thought that was odd.I probley have more of a problem with a lot of the images out there of real women who are trying to be a size 0 or 00 when MOST women are not that tiny and a size 0 is an amolst impossible goal for MOST girls/women to acheive once they go through puberty.

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heck, was Barbie's waist even 2 inches in diameter to begin with??

I was never into Barbie's growing up, and neither was Jordyn much.  So I never really paid much attention.  I don't think Barbie did anything alone, but add to it the rise in "adult" magazines, regular magazines with airbrushed photos, the plastic surgery industry explosion, etc. and then you have the current issues us women have with our bodies.