Amirah Kambe’s research reinforces the idea that representation impacts children’s confidence, mental health and well-being.

While there's no single real-life doll to match Mackey's character, Mattel has produced several scientifically inclined figures, including an astrophysicist Barbie and a line of Barbies made in ...

It's obvious that Robbie is front and center as Barbie, but the film is filled with several notable characters that are real-life variations of the doll, including Ken. If you're curious to learn ...

One of the biggest challenges of creating realistic, on-trend Barbie clothes is scaling everything down to Barbie size. The doll's clothes are 1/6th that of human-size, and while patterns can be ...

The film pushed out "The Avengers" as the ... plays one of the many Ken dolls in the film and America Ferrera plays the Mattel employee Barbie meets in the real world when she leaves "Barbieland." ...

Soon, we had designed a research project to study the feet of Barbie dolls on the market from her launch in 1959 to June 2024. That’s 2,750 Barbies in all. In our study published today, we found a ...

That's about 5,100 babies each year. These Barbies Are Real! See the Cast of Barbie and the Actual Dolls That Inspired Their Characters "It was an honor working with Barbie on the Barbie doll with ...

Around 300,000 Barbie dolls were sold in 1959, her first year on the market, per Mattel. Carol Spencer, a doll designer for Barbie from 1963 to 1998, explains the craze. “The children ...