Me and my friends are doing this project about barbie and was wondering whay is so so skinny
2007-01-24 10:39:02 · 9 answers · asked by lo112255 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Toys
Because Ruth Handler copied her from the German doll Lilli who was a novelty doll marketed to adult men. Lilli was based on a character in a comic strip in the Bild newspaper and was a prostitute so she was supposed to be sexy. In the late 1950s, as it is today sexy = skinny
2007-01-24 17:14:03 · answer #1 · answered by cltd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reasons that models are too skinny and celebrities are too skinny...society is creating a monster of eating disorder problems...its very sad...they said that if barbie was a real person that she would be too thin to have a menstral cycle, among other things that would be wrong...
2007-01-25 21:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by lj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that it can create an unrealistic standard of beauty for girls. Surprisingly, my fiancee said they actually used to be skinnier untill just a few years ago. Plus they're doing the same thing with Bratz dolls now but even more so.
My recomendation? Give little girls Lego instead. All kids love Lego.
2007-01-24 12:52:59 · answer #3 · answered by Lucky Mesmer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a mom started making barbie dolls after her daughter and i think her daughter thought that she was fat or something so she made them skinny to make her fell better.
2007-01-24 10:54:00 · answer #4 · answered by okay2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is because they know that obese barbies won't sell.
they are so skinny because of the growing fad among celebrities of being too skinny
2007-01-24 10:46:12 · answer #5 · answered by Abhay S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell me do you want a doll thats as fat as the universe or as skinny as a piece of paper? Think about the children, what they want to see gosh...
2007-01-24 10:45:32 · answer #6 · answered by Durr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause she is an anerexic retard plastic dumm ***!!
lol
why would you do it on barbie?
and you actually think ppl are ganna no why she is so skinny?
haha
2007-01-24 18:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by krysdizzle_2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a society thing. they need to make fat ones, short ones too
2007-01-24 14:02:53 · answer #8 · answered by glamour04111 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wtf? what school do you go too??? :\
2007-01-24 10:43:04 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋