I wish I could rewind and go back in
time and show this to my younger self
and saw her that's gonna be okay
eventually you're gonna be a Barbie I
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feel like a plus ice princess I feel
like a cupcake I feel like a glitter
bomb I personally do feel like Tyra
Banks right now what's that movie
life-size yeah I feel like I'm about to
have the best quinceanera and invite
Barbie and Ken and skipper I think
Barbie by having a size inclusive
collection is saying that any woman can
be Barbie it's who's inside and not so
much that plastic figure it's about damn
time we here we've been here
I think Barbie is saying I see you like
Hey ladies everywhere it's important
that you see yourself in me I think it's
healthy for young women to understand
that there are plenty of different body
shapes back when I had my prom they
couldn't find a dress in my size this
kind of makes me happy like to be able
to think about what it would have been
like if I would had a dress like this to
wear to my prom is this the whole thing
that like you can dress exactly like
your Barbie because I might have to take
this oh my god that's my sister she does
even have a crown
girl we twins no shoes girl you can't go
out of the house without a fancy heel on
I don't know I'm like a no as you know
I'm kind of the opposite of Barbie I
have dark hair tattoos and plus-size
it's surreal because like when I was
younger and I couldn't fit into the the
my size Barbie doll dress was like you
know like they had the Barbies that came
with the dress for you to wear I could
never fit those who's I've always been
like a chubby kid I never thought I
would see this in my lifetime Barbie and
I have the same dress how did that
happen Wow she doesn't have to deal with
the sequins though I went to prom and I
had a a dress that was all sequins on
the top and my underarms were like raw
by the end of the night I was like this
was a huge mistake I thought I was gonna
have like some issue right here because
of the sequins but it feels really
comfortable I do feel like I could start
a fire with my armpits right now that's
just
thing that you're gonna have to deal
with as a choice maybe you know do some
tricks extra deodorant or soap and it
cuts you right and a decent part where
you can eat a big sandwich and you'd be
okay I actually go for dresses nowadays
that are like past the knee I do think
it's well-made this just has the
potential to survive a night of drinking
and dancing what I think of when I think
of Barbie really my childhood it was
like what I would imagine being an adult
when I was younger I think a boss lady I
would even say nowadays maybe feminist
icon just a touch growing up with a
Barbie and knowing that she was able to
do anything it was nice to know that I
could do anything if I put really put my
mind to it I was an only child so Barbie
was my friend Kim was my friend I grew
up with a lesbian mother and my mother
never dressed up and never was girly
Barbie was the feminine role model for
me because my mom didn't teach me how to
dress up and so when I saw Barbie
dressing up but Michael K I wanna dress
up like that I had an imaginary friend
when I was younger and she was tall
blond white girl like very skinny just
exactly that why he looks nothing like
me I don't know if I really compared
myself to Barbie I think I just liked
playing with dolls oh gee Barbie I would
say proportionately is not necessarily
accurate to women but she's very pretty
has beautiful hair and little hands and
little feet
I think I was always compared to Bobbie
I'm tall I'm Wyatt I have blond hair and
blue eyes but I'm about a hundred pounds
too heavy
always jealous of Bobbie I recall as a
child looking at her body going is this
what I'm going to be looking like and
looking at my mother and thinking where
do I fit in this there were undertones I
didn't even realize I'm thinking up on
for instance the classic waistline I
think even now as an adult I'm affected
with how you know society was looking at
bodies of women at the time when
Cinderella came out with Brandi she had
her own Barbie and that was my favorite
bar because she had the braids I saw
just getting my hair really young I want
my hair to be like Barbie I even went to
the extent of like bleaching my hair
when I was a kid I would have just
wanted a Barbie with curly
like that would have been like the thing
that I could have resonated with I know
my mom's side of my family and they're
all white and I'm the one that sticks
out if I had a Barbie that looked more
like me I would have been more confident
I could hear in my darker skin tone than
my family members a lot sooner when I
was little I used to put a little tissue
around my Barbie I taped tissue on my
Barbie like and then put the dresses
over so that the Barbie could look more
like me and so I wanted the Barbie to
have like a little belly like I did when
I was little my friends used to make fun
of me like what's wrong with your Barbie
I'm like she's more realistic now she
looks like me I had this song like
Barbie trunk and it has like these
pictures of Barbie on it like I don't
look like that that doesn't look like me
like I just won like down the line of
like all the different Barbies on that
chunk and then I kind of just like
internalized that over the years you
know it's not Barbies fault per se
you're seeing these images they're out
there and you don't look like them so
then you kind of like have like an
inadequacy issue it definitely could
have shaped the way I looked at the
world as in there is no other look than
this it was very important to me to have
a black Barbie because I was a black kid
with a black mom and like that kind of
just relating to my actual life having
an array of Barbies as a kid as opposed
to only ones that look like me allowed
me to have an understanding that the
world outside was made up of you know
there's melting pot of people I think I
got used to not seeing dolls that look
like me I just thought oh I'm the
biggest one in the room you know it is
what it is but then as I got older and I
realized that you know I am worthy of
seeing someone that looks like me and so
when the plus-size Barbies launched I
was so excited Barbie has definitely
changed a lot and now they have Barbies
of all different sizes and all different
backgrounds kids now could have a Barbie
that's you know a little thicker a
little shorter taller thinner freckles
different color hair in the 8th grade I
was diagnosed with vitiligo and they
actually came out recently with it with
the vitiligo doll so I think having that
doll and having that representation back
then definitely would have helped me out
I went to go buy the curvy Bobby and I
couldn't find it anywhere on shelves it
took me two weeks to buy it online you
know she's you know like congresswoman
and like she's the gymnast and she's all
these amazing things and it's healthy to
see like we need
to see that I think Barbie is just a
doll that's what she looks like to me
she doesn't look like me well I think
that she'll ever look like me no but I
am happy that there is a curvy Barbie a
plus-size Barbie and also Barbies that
come like in different roles like a
scientist a pilot like that I think is
rad
and I love it to see this dress on a
bunch of different women is very
empowering having the opportunity to
wear a Barbie dress in any size could be
almost magical Barbie you Rock keep
rocking girl power she's working hard at
making everyone feel like the badass
that she is badass sorry
Barbie I don't want to be like Oh Barbie
come apart
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