I played with Barbies my entire childhood, and never once did it occur to me that I should look like any of my Barbie dolls. When I got older and first encountered this idea that Barbie dolls should be changed or outright banned because "they cause body dysmorphia," it honestly shocked me. The same goes for the Disney princesses; little girls don't look at Ariel or Barbie and think, "If I don't have that figure, something is wrong with me".  This whole thing is ridiculous. Barbie was never meant to look real and little girls know that, and parents everywhere are overthinking it. Why wasn't GI Joe ever banned for giving little boys body dysmorphia? (Hint: Because it didn't.) Honestly, I think "average woman" Barbie would cause more body image problems than traditional Barbie.

@Wild Elf im starting to collect monster high

@***** ikr mlp is epic who is your favourite mine is derpy

I still play with dolls and ponies

+Breizh Butler me neither. who thinks they should look like a toy?

Yesss! Very true

People make such a big deal out of everything. When I was little I never ONCE thought about how "nice" Barbie's body was- honestly, I was more concerned with her pretty clothes and acting out silly scenarios. Barbie is a TOY, not a social standard. 

Yeah, you are right! The scenarios were the BEST! It would always develop into some kind of movie or soap opera =), or fighting for the corvette or the clothes! Damn I miss that =) 

This is so true

honestly if i were a little girl again and i had the choice between the creepy realistic barbie and the normal barbie id choose the "anorexic" one. As a child, i never once compared myself to barbie. I dont think girls' insecurities have anything to do with a doll, because when you're that young you kinda just see everyone the same, at least i did. It's the expectations of models and celebrities' beauty that everyone else gets insecure about, not some kids toy. Sorry, but a doll that looks like a human is really creepy, I get the concept and all, but that face scared the hell outta me. Kids like cartoons, ya know?

okai i have to agree with u on that one.to skinny is not attractive

@CrownlessDream Whoever thought that anorexic skinny girls were attractive anyway? Either fit girls or girls with curvaceous, brazilian-influenced bodies are by far the hottest. 

I also don't think kids have the ability to relate the body shape of dolls to real people. They can't imagine how she would look as a real person so the measurements wouldn't really matter. Both dolls are still skinny, which is realistically the only thing a kid sees. The skinnier barbie looks more proportionate as a doll anyway.

i know me and my friend are tomboys we get it

yup thats true

Everybody knows why Barbie is the most successful doll ever made. It's just that nobody in the media wants to talk about it.

@Irii Toffoletti I think that's what inspired the concept. But I don't really see anything wrong with the doll. No worse than GI Joe. 

I thought it was because originally Barbie was kind of a sextoy

@***** Because in the end, women are just as critical about other women's appearances as men are.

How about dolls with different body shapes? Does it really have to be one or the other?

It's easier for doll companies to have all their products the same to make clothing.

I totally agree with the fact that barbie just isn't an accurate representation of what a woman looks like, but when I was younger I never really viewed barbie as this "perfect thing" I wanted to look like. Just that she was fun to dress up and play with, lol. I think this is more for teens that feel insecure, while as most children wouldn't really have self consciousness from seeing barbies. Idk. Can't we just try loving ourselves and stop blaming other things for making us feel insecure.

If one wants their kids playing with dolls, it wouldn't hurt with more dolls like these. #barbie

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Guys. Barbie is just a doll. WHy be jealous of a doll? Some dolls arent meant to look realistic. People arent going around complaining they don't look like those monster high or whatever they are called dolls. (well...) Barbie dolls are toys for children. Not models of what people should look like..

Soooo apparently only average is real, if you are above or below average you are no longer considered real. I will use that in my future court cases by proving that because I am above average height that I could not commit any crimes because I am not real. Should have been titled "average" Barbie.

exactly. it should have said avarge because they thought that they were making people feel better by ending that beauty standard but they just made me feel worse because i’m not a real woman bcuz that isn’t my body shape!?

If Barbie was real, she would be about 5'9 and 95 lb. she would go down in the 'anorexic' category. And because of her unrealistic body proportions. She wouldn't be able to stand, she would have to walk on all fours

+Stardust Ring Yep

I love how they say stuff like realistic as if everybody has that type of body

I played with Barbie dolls when I was a kid, and I never thought I should try to look like her, or not look like her. It's a doll. All I cared about was that it was a doll with cool clothes. They don't change the GI Joe action figures because boys don't look like it, so why are they so worried about Barbie? They're just TOYS!

yes, barbie would look creep if she was a real women and thats because she is a doll! shes like a cartoon, imaginary. think of the time she was made and how women were drawn. it was just popular at the time. If a child has to resort to looking at a toy as a reference to how they want to grow up then the female figures in the childs life isn't doing a good enough job. everything starts at home.

Thank you for saying the truth of what all people look like.

The problem is that he's conflating two entirely different ideas: *average* and *real*. So we continuously hear and read that if Barbie doesn't have the same figure as the *average* woman, well that's just horrible because then she doesn't look like a *real* woman. But what is also being said, even if unintentionally, is that if you don't look *average*, then you are not *real*, and that's just as harmful as any message Barbie ever sent out. Because the woman who stands five foot seven and weighs three hundred twenty-six pounds IS a real woman, for all that she isn't average. And so is the woman who stands four foot eight, and so are all the various models, porn stars, gymnasts, actresses, and body builders, for all that not a one of them is average either. And yes, so is the statistically average in every way woman, if she exists at all.

Darn they found out that I've always wanted to have Barbie's waist when I was 5-7. It was totally my biggest worry. -_- really my biggest worry was when I was going to get nap time.

Es pura absoluta transformación

Forgetting one thing here. Barbie is make believe. It's a toy. As I kid, I never desired the freakish proportions of a barbie, nor did I want permanent glittery blue makeup, permanently tiptoed feet, or for my nipples to go away. I did, however, want to be a fairy and a mermaid from time to time, or live in a big pink house, but I never expected those things to happen. What I'm trying to say is that for a normal, well adjusted child, you know that people don't look like that, and you don't feel bad about yourself because of how a toy looks, so having an unrealistic nyphlike doll, in itself isnt posing any problems.

Who the hell in the right mind sets barbie dolls as a standard for how women should look. Barbie dolls are made of plastic and have those proportions simply so that they are to you know easy to play with for little girls and also the thinner the doll the less plastic means more profit for the company.  Are women that stupid? ( Its lol a rhetorical question calm down) 

exactly something is wrong with some women thinking that they have to be like barbie or that is the message. BARBIE IS A DOLL, what about baby dolls, does my baby have to be like baby plastic dolls, jajaj

@Hari S I have yet to meet a woman who looked to a Barbie and set her as a standard for the body image to obtain. I have no clue why people are blaming the toy when she has nothing to do with it.

@Kathleen Oliver They do it for the attention. Media flocks to them because they look different and because cosmetic surgery can be such a hot subject people listen to these types of news stories. You don't see the media featuring people who became an internet celebrity for just posting normal looking photos of themselves. Most of these Barbie women got well known because of the photos and videos they post of themselves onto the web. Angry people should not point fingers at toys or children's movies but at the media. I never even noticed that I looked different from the little mermaid or Barbie growing up until an ADULT pointed it out.

I agree. I played with barbies growing up, and not once did I take them seriously or compare myself to them -_-

I know what you mean there

SMH... Everyone is unique in their own way. (∩_∩)

I want that real Barbie :C

I believe that Barbie's look that way to be aesthetically pleasing to customers.

many they should make a variety of sizes in the doll so everyone is happy, it would be more realistic anyways being that not everyone is the same size

I've never wanted to look like barbie when I was a kid. I just wanted her dream house and ken;)

Personally, I think the new barbie is more beautiful. :)

Come on let's face it guys when we were little we never once looked at a Barbie and thought I want my body to look like hers they're just making this to make themselves feel better about their proportions no little girl thinks about their bodies looking like Barbies

"Women with real bodies" Okay, look, what you should say is women with "average" bodies. Every woman alive has a real body. Same with this "men liek curvez!" shit. Most women have curves.

If the artist had used measurements based on the average Asian women's measurements - the doll would have turned out more or less like the Barbie doll - in terms of proportion.

I'd buy the doll.

You must know if Mattel used real average woman's proportions for Barbie and her girlfriends is a better inspiring example of a real woman. Mattel needs to do this now so Barbie looks more realistic and truthful.

Barbie is Barbie! I have friends who naturally look like Barbie proportionately and the haven't gone through surgery, Barbie is a toy not a person

I'm just impressed by his photoshop skills woah

It's not what an average woman looks like it's the average of all statistics on women. Surely, you guys understand why the combined average measurements of all women, doesn't actually look like an average woman, right?

Is there a Ken version of this? I don't think he will be like the original doll either.

This is why Mattel must make Barbie with average proportions, a light amount of makeup, and joints that bend for the future since Lammily retired. Think this way what a real normal woman looks like for Barbie as that option.

that is so true i remember saying i want to look like abarbie when i was 4

Oh snap! I'm depressed because I can never look like my toys I played with as a kid. *boohoo* Why make such a big fuss about dolls? Kids get hung up on it, so why should we?

Damn real life Barbie got served

So you're saying girls who look like Barbie aren't real women..... Wow ok

+dcsephs also working out will still not get you that "Barbie thin" because thighs will never look like that and if you are working out they will naturally be bigger on account of muscle

+dcsephs umm.. She didn't skinny shame. A Barbie doll does not look like a real person. I weigh under 100 pounds and still don't look like Barbie though I "work hard". You're fat shaming. They weren't skinny shaming.

@dcsephs ROFL.  Nice try on having an adult conversation.  OG in my name doesn't stand for that, so try again.  I wasn't talking about Julie W. in my comment but the video there was women shown that did get surgery.  Valeria Lukyanova has had surgery to appear more like Barbie.  I was speaking about how EDs was on a rise for Islanders due to influence of Western Magazines ON THE ISLANDS.  Have you not seen photos Margret Mead with Samoans, before Western Influence took hold? Are you promoting EDs?  I never said anything about people not being naturally skinny.  However, you can't deny trying pursue something that have been digitally altered is dangerous.  As for skinny shaming please.  It's still far more acceptable to be skinny (or runaway models wouldn't be pulling their teeth out to look more gaunt in the face) and men on dating sites didn't list their number one fear is meeting "skinny chicks".

+dcsephs YOUR****talking smack about not HOUR*****

+CorakiOG hey wake up Coraki "original Gangsta" I'm sure lol. Julie W. the one hour talking smack about looks like a Barbie doll... she didn't get any plastic surgery she just takes care of her self I'm sure. stop skinny shamming!!! it takes work to be thin and athletic a lot more then being fat. Pacific Islanders=most obese per capita ethnicity (ies) in the world. why? Western diet (cheese, dairy, land mammles, grains before Europe and Asians got to them it was an all fruit, root, sea diet.) This along with an increase in sedentary lifestyles and yes an obesity problem is possible. What is your point good sir/mam?

I think it's cool that some people aim to look like barbie. As long as they enjoy it, makes them happy, and are healthy doing it. :P I would like to have features that make me stand out from others. 

this is cool and all but tbh, when i was 6 and playing with barbies, i never once looked at the doll like "wow i wish i looked like her" i mean... its a doll, a toy. its not supposed to look real

What they are doing is all well and good but the "average" size doll still has a flat stomach and a thigh gap so I still feel crappy about the way I look tbh..........

cool idea, but what about barbie's face? beauty standards are not only about the body, society also tells us girls that having plump lips, a petite nose, big eyes and long hair is what being beautiful is about. sad that he didn't change barbie's face too

That doll looks a LOT better than the original barbie doll.

If people dont want kids to be convinced they need to look a certain way...I dont think giving them a slightly differently shaped barbie doll will do the trick. not when theyre shown advertisements daily about the ideal (mostly photoshopped) humans that they should aspire to look like.

Yea, I think the human Barbie is creepy. It's much more comfortable looking at normal people. A person who has plastic surgery in order to look like a doll is not happy with herself. It's just plain wierd.

Barbies are like Anime and cartoon characters, they are just meant to be entertainment, not someone to look up to. People really take things too seriously these days. If someone wants to look like a purposely disproportional doll and become hideous it is because of their twisted brain's fault, not the doll's. 

What if the "real body" doll would cause more dystopia (or whatever that body image thing is) because it's called the real Barbie, so if you didn't have that shape you're ugly. Unlike the regular doll which had no intention of being a "real" doll.

The realistic Barbie doll is really pretty.

i think its great theyre making Barbies more realistic

+Cherryl Clifford Well thank you for implying that I'm fat and ugly. That is very kind of you. My PERSONAL OPINION is that the realistic one is very pretty. The other one is fine too. I think expectations on how people should look are bullshit. I'm just appreciating the realistic doll. But I guess everything is offensive nowadays, so it's my bad. xD

This is rude... R u fat and ugly? Bc that "realistic" barbie doll is more unrealistic than the "fake" one... Tbh

Omg that's so real

ok well im pretty sure 90% of people dont spend time looking like a barbie??? 

Omg it is just a doll.

why does the realistic doll not have a longer skirt? i mean! if its a realistic doll, have realistic clothing!

So, when a little girl wants to be like Barbie, it's a bad thing? So, if she wants her own job(s), car(s), and she takes good care of her body she's insecure? Okay.

+Катерина Докузова You are absolutely correct. Could not have said it better myself. :)

@peachez1516 I get that. It is just a toy. And I feel like girls are going to struggle with body image anyway, not just because of Barbie. You can't really escape that in this world, y'know?

I know, but that's the vibe I get when people rant about how girls want to be like Barbie.

I don't think it's addressing the idea of being accomplished or educated, etc. It's just talking about body image, which doesn't always have to do with health. A person could be really healthy and not have the tiniest waist or longest legs. I think the goal here is to encourage girls to be comfortable in the bodies they have been given, no matter what the shape. 

I want that Barbie

so basically the message is that all the men with female faces are pretty??

I played with Barbies and never once thought I should look like that even to this day of your child is already thinking that then it's something they're watching or doing not the toy

why would you need to get measurements from the CDC? The Center for Disease Control?

You're missing the point. The type of person kids see the most of can cause them to hold that as what is expected of them. Barbie is a completely unrealistic standard.

What about cabbage patch dolls?  Are they unrealistic? And Ninja Turtle Dolls? How unrealistic are they? What about Mickey And Minnie Dolls? How unrealistic are they? Good Grief. Barbie Dolls are just that--- Dolls. Anyone that thinks that they need to look like any doll is mentally ill and needs either meds, therapy or needs to be locked up.

OMG! People have actually had plastic surgery to look like Barbie? 0_o I mean, I like to look good, but a good goal is to be healthy, not skinny.

Um ok...really?!?! Come on I was slightly over weight and was bullied a lot in schooland BARELY had any friends snd just didn't care. I came home played with barbies and always was happy. I never had any thoughts or feelings wanting to be like Barbie. Because I knew that SHE'S JUST A DOLL. and I never was jealous because I knew it'd be just RIDICULOUS. God these parents bitch about everything these days. Its so stupid. Lot of us girls played with barbies because that was and is her porpose. A TOY. If they want to complain go attack Hollywood about all these pumped up bulging muscle mass guys and way too skinny big boobed women. Not a childs toy. really its the real world people. And I swear ill bet Half these moms who complain about barbie I'm pretty sure GREW UP playing with barbies gawd -_-

Barbie is a fashion doll= she was based off the fashion sketches designers draw, that's why she has a beautiful stylized body. the "normal" doll isn't pretty, sorry, but there's nothing pretty about her... even her face is odd

It's just a damn doll. Why does there have to be a deeper meaning to something as simple as a children's toy?

WOW! people really do be taking $#1+ much too far and way too personal!!!

Of course barbie isn't realistic; there was an artistic style put onto her. Are people really getting to the point where they can't tolerate or understand what an artistic style is?

why they dont make a real version of he-man?

Barbie does look like real woman now

So real women have way-too-short necks that make them look like a head connected directly to the shoulders? I'd rather have Barbie. (She has a neck.)

Barbie never influence me about my looks o.o..:( poor girls ... A doll should never tell you how to look.. Its a doll..

They forgot to put a donut in her hand.

She did a good job looking like Barbie hopefully she says like that but she is freaky aswell..... Xx

maybe barbie dolls are toys and not real women?

The real sized doll scares me

It's a piece of plastic😂 Why should we care✊

Not trying to be mean but that normal Barbie is much prettier than the natural women Barbie

Those women with the humongous eyes look super creepy and are very unrealistic

Geez people just be chill and raise kids to be self confident -.- Barbie rules!

who gets jealous over a doll. get over yourselves.

I do not think dolls make creepy looking woman. Those women in the form of dolls look like they play in porn. Women who look like dolls are extremely attractive to the point that every man they meet will be strongly sexually attracted to them. This is why women who look like dolls wind up playing in porn.

Whoops guess I'm not average for having a long neck and being skinny

I thought Demi Lovato inspired the Barbie?

that real life version was so freaking ugly, like she fell from the top of a mountain and hit every ugly tree on the way down through the forest to the ugly river.

Why do people think that barbie was made to set beauties standers i swear people will attack any thing blindly. I have never once saw a girl be sad that they don't look like their toy, and the reason most girls want to be barbie is because she has a mansion , helicopter , cor vet,giant can home , and what ever job she wants to have. She has done it all and that's is kinda inspiring. Also its person shaped i would have felt really weird playing with a doll that looked like a person its kinda creepy really.

it's scary because of the "Uncanny Valley".. we don't want dead plastic or machinery things to look like real humans.. that's why we find it scary, when a computer has artificial intelligence or when a robot exactly looks and talks and reacts like another human being..

It's just a doll stop comparing your self to a freaking doll who cares if the doll is skinner than you

so we are all now dolls, i mean women

Uhh, there are people with barbie-like figures that are naturally like that. That doesn't make them a real women?

Ikr! My mom is literally built like a monster high doll! I hate when people seem to think nobody is skinny

The real woman one looks kind of awkward though. Just saying lol 

Yes we are beautiful that's are natural beauty

I never really wanted to Be a barbie I just wanted her wardrobe, cars, accessories etc.

I don’t get why people seem to have some sort of problem with barbie’s “fake” body type. I’ve always been short and chubby and I never once had a problem with barbie. Granted I could find a Barbie that looked like me but I still didn’t really care since I had fun with the doll itself. My mother is built like a monster high doll and at one point she asked me and my best friend as little kids how barbie made us feel and we both told her “It’s a doll. I don’t care.” and frankly I still don’t.

You should have dug deep to these beauty standards to understand if the doll doesn't affect your body image that means your fine.

cool!  they made barbie ugly!  nice job, 2013!

women did look like barbie decades ago when she was created ...remember all the white famous women on tv had these incredible figures. Were usually thin and tall ...I' want to see them sell some "chunky" dolls LOL 

cant people just enjoy barbie dolls and stop trying to be them? I love barbie dolls but i'm not all HEY LET ME BE SO FAKE SO I CAN GET SO MANY DUDES

That human doll is freaking ugly. I would of never played with Barbies if that is what she looked like. Barbie is a TOY in which we use to play MAKE-BELIEVE. Why would a child want to play with something that looks so real. 

Ikr everyones saying the human barbie thing is pretty but its creepy and a waste of money and time

Let dolls be dolls and women be women. There's nothing wrong about the barbie doll.

As a man I can say honestly that if a woman looked like barbie she would be ugly I like when a woman is curvy and most men would agree

that isnt  true with the waist line one of my best friends has like a waist like just like barbie 

The real Barbie looks a lot like Britney Spears.

except her boobs are smaller