I'm not sure where I heard this from, but some scientist analyzed the dimensions of Barbie and said that if she were an actual person, her back bone would not be able to support the size of her breasts. Just going off of what disney_eyes mentioned.

i hate the barbie look.
heres a random fact....if woman were like barbies they would only have enough room in their bodies for half a liver and a few centimetres of bowel and they would die of malnutrition.
most celebritiys are a clone of one another and i'm bored of it...lyndsay lohan, hilary duff, britney spears, random ****ty group bands that mime, actresses that diet all of the time coz theyre 'too fat'.

well, in the music industry, i'm fans of people who can actually sing. i don't like those teenage ****s like lidsay lohan and hilary duff who try to copy britney spears in their videos. i luv joss stone cuz she doesn't have the "barbie" look and she's a good singer. record companies sign people cuz of looks and unfortunately, that's just how society sees things these days. people with no real skills, but looks good just get a lot of respect. that's why i try to buy cds and watch movies with people who can actually do what they're doing. i appreciate singers who write their own music. have u all noticed that singers who write their own songs are actually good singers and don't have the "barbie" look?

Well, I love barbies. Not the way they look, that's just not right, but I play with barbies and I'm fourteen. It's so much fun. Of course, I wouldn't be suprised if I'm really a six-year-old trapped in a fourteen-year-old's body.

i agree that the "barbie" look is wrong. The most sickening thing about it is that people have died trying to look like our icons of beauty. Everyone is beautiful in their own special way, you just have to take time to figure out your style.

I think that barbie and bratz are just really dumb. My friends little sister is 8 I think, and she's already obsessed with barbie and bratz. Media is totally controlling people and making them think that you have to be skinny and boobilicious and blonde to be popular. I barbie were a real human, she would be like 7' something" inches tall, and her waist is so skinny she'd have to walk on all fours. How's that for role model?

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It's not the "Barbie" look anymore. It's the "Bratz" doll look, now. They've updated the Barbie look. Now, you have to have huge lips

Yeah.... I think Goldie Haan injected some of the fat from somewhere else on her body into her lips. I find that really disgusting. And Bratz are pretty freaky. At least Barbies had their eyes wide open.

Im a part time model and at my studio we tell girls to stay heathy and take care of them selfs and FYI most of us are flat so the barbie look is fading out.We dont tell ppl how to look.

It's not the "Barbie" look anymore. It's the "Bratz" doll look, now. They've updated the Barbie look. Now, you have to have huge lips. If you see how Barbie has evolved over the years, you will be surprised. Barbie stays with the times, she's basically the model of the modern day woman. Even though it's false, she represents all of what's popular in society.

barbie never portrayed a thought filled person to me. it portrayed someone easily copied and changed. she never played someone original. sure i want to be told i'm pretty but, i also want to be told i am nice,or smart. the later seem less used in her commercials. however, they are my favorite.

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its really easy to become a barbie girl. just buy yourself a tiny waist, huge boobs and a bottle of peroxide. poof! you're barbie!

I'm a barbie girl/ in the barbie world/ wrapped in plastic/ it's fantastic... "Barbie Girl" Aqua

Trauma= cool newbie!

I for one totally agree, today's sexist culture is a disease. Young impressionable women see women in music videos, the perfect people in magazines and on cosmetic commercials and are bullied into dresses to small for them and diets that nearly kill people by capitalist companies that couldn't care less about the victims that are damaging them selves with bulimia and other illnesses. People are so bent on looking like celebrities, they are actually really hurting them selves, even if it is just trying 2 fit into a shoe size to small, it puts a scar on humanity. It causes depression, it causes anorexia. Nobody needs to be recognised as an object for sexual desire, no one needs to cover up their face with tons of make up because TV and magazines say your not beautiful enough. You should be recognised for the person you are, not the make up on your face.

If you think you should look like the living personification of a plastic doll then you should have the intelligence of one. If you are attracted to mass produced media induced people who look like toys, go buy yourself a toy. Please stop catogorising people and get some creativity.

I have finished my diatribe on mass production of the same social being, i cede the floor to anyone who wishes to continue the debate in a levelheaded manner. God i sounded almost 60 years old, and more pompous than ever before in my life. Oh Dear...

yeah, and i dont like jessica simpson. she's definitely a barbie wannabe

Yup. But, that's wat they want to look like. but if their bad people then, u no, o.k I can see where your coming from. i'm a punk.
did any of that make sence? (sense)

Yep, people like pretty people, it's always going to be that way. People also like funny, intelligent people on their screens, so all is not lost. It just depends what you're going for…

However super-skinniness in the media is just stupid… you get to the point where these 'role models' are unhealthily thin.

I heard that after the first male magazines came out (showing skinny guys with toned muscles), anorexia in men suddenly shot up. These things really do have an effect.

Personally, I never liked Barbie when I was a kid. She seemed very boring… Apparently Bratz are getting more popular? They look more fun. Though the clothing is very skimpy… heh, my mum got one as a jokey gift and the little jeans are so tightly fitted you have to pull the feet off in order to clothe the doll… now that's just not natural!

-Inky

Let's pretend Lei's post had a point and then question ourselves....what?!