8.14. Welcome back to KPRC.
2 plus now a live look from
Discovery Green. This city is
donning the color pink because
it’s a Barbie world this
morning. Houston is hot pink,
as you can see today, the much
anticipated Barbie movie hits
theaters. But for Whiting of
Houston. She says it’s a Barbie
day every day. Her private
collection of Barbies has been
growing since 1997 and she
invited Houston life into her
home to take a look. Now, this
is a very special event because
before today, no one outside
of Melissa’s close friends and
family members had ever seen
her collection. Take a look.
Well, is that you’re ready to
reveal your body collection to
the home? Well tonight and he’s
still not. Yes, I’m ready to
reveal my collection on he’s
alive today. Ocala students
come on in.
>> So exciting to see the light
so they can is here to tell
you know, this is my real life.
Seemed like to actually have
that is a lot of real life and
it’s decide I’m going to see
him. I was I didn’t realize
I had that much pink, yellow
and red until you have to like
be cognizant of something like
this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was
the Listen. I was telling say
and this morning, I’m like, why
didn’t you remind me? Well, as
I can kind of can is bright.
Yeah, right? You can. You can.
We can
do that. We’re going to take
who already screwed it up.
Yeah, you know, act is oh my
God. Oh, no. I think you could
pull it off me the other hand,
I now it’s not gonna happen.
Okay. So this is really cool
because you saw this woman’s
collection of more than
300 don’t. Yeah, she has more
than 300. But you know what?
Since I spoke with a yesterday
and she goes, you know, since
the Sony on Saturday at both
and she said the bodies in the
out check this late. She’s
saying that was when she was
really young, but she got
serious about collecting in
1997. And so it really is.
>> The latest epic collection
of Bobby’s she has like and
be allowed. She has like
Camorra. She’s Destiny’s Child.
She’s got a really beautiful
collection of bodies. So I I
was very excited. And she, of
course, leave these all in the
packaging, right? Yeah, no
Yukon, which I think is
interesting with collect is
because I like to enjoy say at
this. You know, if I collect,
if I could collect cars and
drive them all the time.
But you know that right now a
real collected stay. She does
have some out of the box, but
she said the minute it’s out of
the books, it’s not with
anything. Okay. So we know that
she is loyal KPRC viewer.
She loves. You heard her family
members are obviously aware of
this collection.
>> Yeah. I mean, they feel a
little. She used to have them
in boxes and she says it is
still them away. Then she found
that meant she would double
up on had Bobby’s. And she said
it was really hard to kind of
keep track of how many she had.
So then she used a whole room
in the house and has decked it
out. So what is the reaction of
people when they see this?
>> Will she had what she really
hasn’t shown? A lot of people
like a close friends and family
say it and they have family
kind of, you know, I tolerate
it. They’re like, yeah, great.
We’ve got houses, Bobby’s.
I mean, it’s
fake. Have friends 50’s reveal.
She invited for p****. We had a
big body party. We all had to
dress up as bodies as the Mayan
to be. have friends dressed up
as their favorite body. The
fact that it was actually have
a date Mardi Gras. Bobby.
So it was a lot of fun. We
Odessa and you this. There’s
even pregnant Bobby’s so and
she really was pregnant as a
Barbie for every occasion.
Yeah. And this may in the body
both site 8. Yeah. If you can
imagine it as a Bob, what would
you what, Bobby Feet if you had
it in a bar, who, you know, I
will say growing up, it was
just my brother and I and all
of our our girls, we’re dealing
boys and out of.
>> Both sides, the family, both
my dad’s side in my mom’s side.
And I remember our cousins
having a tough H** of Barbies,
but I do now I I really who are
we to want to be about the they
might already be body, but he
says, yeah, that’s always a
fun guy. Like you riled up to
be a body if you can turn them
into about be I’m trying to
like think of something that’s
not political. Next who is
first in your life right now.
We’re not going there. We’re
not going Who was? Oh, that’s
really interesting. Today.
>> Well, I feel like I’m gonna
give something away that I know
the list. That’s a really good
one. And I was like, yes, was
Rihanna are okay? Yeah, he’s
probably already. And this is
not about Beyonce. Taylor Swift
is it was switched. Bother you
go. That will I can tell back.
>> Shania Shania would be fine.
All you can do so much pink end
cow print isolation. I would be
great. And also you could
cowboys aren’t Shania rights
giant weeks. That’s right.
All the pink when she’s
wearing, I should let me know.
They like.
>> Their choice some of the
week that she’s being where our
Reba Reid, that would be a lot
of fun. Oh, my God. You can get
right into that one.
>> Yeah. The goddess and saying
Lady Gaga, it got is our Lady
Gaga. Bobby.
I mean, it is not. So how did
you find out in the finalist?
Okay. This is kind of
interesting because she
actually e-mails he still life
because she is she reached out
I hope you’re watching now,
Melissa. Yes, she’s big fences.
She reached out to us and then
I as you to a right. But I will
say I’m going to ruin my phone
number, but I will sign it.
Miami area carded
70 today. Megan is Saturday
against Baby says yet. And I
think everyone I was, you know,
Vaughn, sir, 7.19, right?
Because probably going to write
a cull right? So she did not.
I’m used to paper on soaring.
And so I I left a message a
cold again, I left a message is
sent her name. Now I called
again. I was like, oh, my
goodness. On the other side of
things, Lewis
is going and some mocking his
not answering this number keeps
calling me. I’m not on serving.
And then one of her friends
said she was like I’m going to
block this number because they
keep calling me. And her
friends said, you know what,
you always block these numbers
that call you a lot. You’re
going to block your blessings.
You I love that. You’re going
to block your blessings.
>> Yeah.
>> That’s great. Saw it.
She on said and then the rest
is going to go to Bobbi Party.
It was amazing. Okay. I think
we have some sound from that
party right? Oh, yes, actually,
this is really cool because one
of the coolest bodies that
Melissa has actually looks
like. And this is a complete
coincidence that check it out.
Show us about it. Looks like
you you’ve got to say it is
this is the Barbie that looks
like me.
>> And I will be just as this
Barbie in a
few minutes.
>> What’s so cool? We totally.
And she had the matching
outfit. She said it wasn’t that
hard to find it. She decide.
Looked on by probably, you
know, I that with this latest
craze, people could just it’s
a build a barrier right?
>> You can almost build a
Barbie. I know that would be
siphoned. Actually. My
photographer, Lenny kind with a
he said he told me a story
often and I don’t know if you
guys have done this, but he
said he and his brother had one
G I, joe, between them and so
that they had some extra G I
Joe Clyde’s and say they would
steal this sisters.
>> Body to
hate, Yahoo. His sisters body
as the G I to it. So his father
and him could Che the head of
Barbie. Oh, my gosh. Did you
have a you need to But I
remember like you can.
The heads you, Chris, I
remember that. Yeah, them.
And so I remember a few of
those
I had affected Bobby’s my mom.
Is it so yeah, we nit thrifting
today. He still surfs and she
was because bodies and remember
the lives weekend ever so
slightly. Yeah, a little
snap. Things said not enough to
head to Sudan to us and
say, aha, you days. Yeah.
I mean, it used to trying been
my body’s lives a little.
So she looked like she was
really writing holes because
that used to bug me. She’d be
all right. Flat. Let them.
Then falls off.
We should think obviously I
know
we need to wrap I didn’t even
bring them. I know they wanted.
That’s what they wanted us to
do was do a little stiff a
little stick and say, Hey,
Barbie, hey, can you want to go
for a ride on the side as I’m
driving? Well, if we’re honest
rally and they do that, you’re
going to be an Australian
minister. Okay. That’s Wesley K hi, Ken. Hey, Barbie. Want to