Remember the song, “I’m a Barbie Girl” released by Aqua in 1997? It depicted the Barbie doll as a bimbo blond, living in a plastic world—‘Life in plastic, it’s fantastic.’ Pretty biased against a doll, but there is some truth of what it represents for women. Mattel is working to change this stereotype by introducing three new body types for Barbie.
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