Barbie Doll Publicist With Problems
The Barbie Doll, loved by five generations, was originally launched in March 1959, in a striped bathing suit.
Ruth Handler was the creator of this rich and famous doll, with an adolescent's face, but adult body.
Now on her 50th birthday, Barbie who also went by the name of Barbara Millicent Roberts, seems to have been popularized by a Yale-educated man who swung his way through the 70's.
Sadly, Jack Ryan was a man who appeared to have had an unsavoury background.
Barbie split from her long time boyfriend, Ken Carson in 2004, in an attempt to portray what was seen as everyday occurrences.
In February 2006 the 'couple' were reunited.
Barbie was never portrayed with children, instead she owned over forty pets, including a panda, horses, dogs, cats, lion cub and even a zebra.
Barbie was seen as a flight attendant to being a pilot.
She was everything from a doctor to an astronaut.
(Anything that could bring Matel some more money).
There is an Islamic Barbie called Fulla, along with and an African and Hispanic Barbie.
By the late 1990's, any woman who could be considered to be shallow and frivolous, could be termed a 'Barbie'.
This was a flow on from the 'blondes have all the fun', syndrome of the 1970's.
It was Barbie's unrealistic body shape that brought her the most criticism.
The unachievable body shape was the source of the very real danger of endorsing anorexia in young girls.
The University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, reported that any girl with a body shaped like Barbie, would be lacking 17 - 22% body fat that was needed to be able to menstruate.
The Barbie mould was finally given a new design in 1997.
Barbie had several inches added to her tiny waist line.
In keeping with the social conscience of the day, in 1997 along came a friend of Barbie in a pink wheelchair.
It was revealed in 2005 that girls could go through an 'I-hate-Barbie' phase.
Barbie could have her head cut off, or disappear into a blob of plastic inside a microwave oven, as the girls strove to break away from their 'Barbie days'.
Yet of the well over 100,000 fanatical Barbie doll lovers, 90% are women over the age of 40 years.
45% of them will spend over $1000 and purchase more than 20 Barbie dolls each year.
Wrapped up in a mint-condition box, a Barbie sold for $3552 on eBay in October 2004.
The original price paid for this doll, was a mere $3 in 1959.
The highest sum ever to be paid for a Barbie was nine thousand pounds sterling, at Christies in London.
It was a 1965 Barbie clothed in Midnight Red and part of a private 4,000 Barbie doll collection, being sold by two Dutch women, Ietje Raebel and her daughter Marina.
To celebrate the 50th birthday, the original 1959 Barbie has been reproduced, stripes and all.
Ruth Handler was the creator of this rich and famous doll, with an adolescent's face, but adult body.
Now on her 50th birthday, Barbie who also went by the name of Barbara Millicent Roberts, seems to have been popularized by a Yale-educated man who swung his way through the 70's.
Sadly, Jack Ryan was a man who appeared to have had an unsavoury background.
Barbie split from her long time boyfriend, Ken Carson in 2004, in an attempt to portray what was seen as everyday occurrences.
In February 2006 the 'couple' were reunited.
Barbie was never portrayed with children, instead she owned over forty pets, including a panda, horses, dogs, cats, lion cub and even a zebra.
Barbie was seen as a flight attendant to being a pilot.
She was everything from a doctor to an astronaut.
(Anything that could bring Matel some more money).
There is an Islamic Barbie called Fulla, along with and an African and Hispanic Barbie.
By the late 1990's, any woman who could be considered to be shallow and frivolous, could be termed a 'Barbie'.
This was a flow on from the 'blondes have all the fun', syndrome of the 1970's.
It was Barbie's unrealistic body shape that brought her the most criticism.
The unachievable body shape was the source of the very real danger of endorsing anorexia in young girls.
The University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, reported that any girl with a body shaped like Barbie, would be lacking 17 - 22% body fat that was needed to be able to menstruate.
The Barbie mould was finally given a new design in 1997.
Barbie had several inches added to her tiny waist line.
In keeping with the social conscience of the day, in 1997 along came a friend of Barbie in a pink wheelchair.
It was revealed in 2005 that girls could go through an 'I-hate-Barbie' phase.
Barbie could have her head cut off, or disappear into a blob of plastic inside a microwave oven, as the girls strove to break away from their 'Barbie days'.
Yet of the well over 100,000 fanatical Barbie doll lovers, 90% are women over the age of 40 years.
45% of them will spend over $1000 and purchase more than 20 Barbie dolls each year.
Wrapped up in a mint-condition box, a Barbie sold for $3552 on eBay in October 2004.
The original price paid for this doll, was a mere $3 in 1959.
The highest sum ever to be paid for a Barbie was nine thousand pounds sterling, at Christies in London.
It was a 1965 Barbie clothed in Midnight Red and part of a private 4,000 Barbie doll collection, being sold by two Dutch women, Ietje Raebel and her daughter Marina.
To celebrate the 50th birthday, the original 1959 Barbie has been reproduced, stripes and all.
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