Posted on 07/04/2013 5:53:50 PM PDT by rickmichaels
How many girls dream of looking like Barbie when they grow up only to realize its physically impossible?
Estimates of what a woman would look like if she had Barbies measurements rack up so to speak at about 39-20-33″. She would be 6 to 7 feet tall and only weigh about 100 to 108 pounds.
Photographer and artist Nickolay Lamm aimed to answer this question recently by creating 3D images of a Barbie doll with a real-life. Lamm used CDC measurements for the average American 19-year-old female in creating his doll she has a 33.6-inch waist and weighs 150 pounds.
I adored Barbie as much as the next middle class white kid, but after gazing at Lamms doll for a minute, it was the archetype that looked strange.
These images exemplify the bizarre and fictitious ideals girls and boys grow up with. Im not even sure what Mattels motivation is in keeping Barbies crazy measurements wouldnt a more realistic version sell just as well? Were not even getting into the cultural and racial diversity Barbie lacks.
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LOL...ya THINK?
I don’t know, maybe it’s me, but I thought the Barbie that came down on the elevator was pretty hot...:)
I guess an important part of being a child is having imagination, and there is some part of many guys that just doesn’t ever grow up...I hope!
I should have indicated that I was kidding, trying to be /sarc.
I love it when I see you say that you would “hit” whoever. Always cracks me up.
I think growing up completely is highly overrated. And yes, she WAS cute!
I wouldn’t say “barbie”, I’d say someone they find attractive. Whether that looks more or less like a barbie I am sure varies as to what that particular guy considers to be attractive.
not every attractive woman a guy looks at or might think about is automatically a “barbie” or even considered by a guy to be “a barbie”. If you want to put any kind of term on it other than “attractive”, we already have a word for it, and that word is “hottie”. Hotties are all shapes and sizes, not limited to to the proportions and colorings of barbie.
Shallow Hal...
When I was a little girl in the late 60’s-early 70’s, I had two Barbie dolls - one was dark-haired - and Ken and Skipper. I also had Barbie’s townhouse, Barbie’s airplane, and Barbie’s fashion show. My friends and I designed and sewed clothes by hand for our Barbie dolls. I also could be a bit of a tomboy, but never once did my friends and I feel inadequate because of our dolls.
I don’t have daughters, but when I was a little girl (eons and eons ago), my friends and I designed and sewed clothes by hand for our Barbie dolls.
There was only one time when my Barbie dolls ended up naked: My little brother got mad at me, and he decided to seek revenge. That’s when my mother found my Barbie dolls naked and hanging upside down in a closet.
But, don’t worry! My brother turned out to be a nice guy. LOL. My mother still laughs about that day.
LOL I was never smart enough to do something like that. My sister and I settled for hand-to-hand combat.
I wonder if stocky Barbie’s head rips off as easily as the tall one?
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