EXTRA! EXTRA!! AFTER 43 years of togetherness Barbie dumps Ken for Aussie boogie boarder

News.Com.AU ^ | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Ken and Barbie in love-split

From correspondents in New York
February 13, 2004

AFTER 43 years as one of the world's prettiest pairs, the perfect plastic couple is breaking up.

Aussie boogie boarder Blaine has dazzled Barbie with his cool threads and sunny outlook.

The couple's business manager, Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, said that Barbie and Ken "feel it's time to spend some quality time apart."

"Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end," said Arons, who quickly added that the duo "will remain friends."

Arons denied that there was any truth to rumours that the breakup was linked to the Cali (as in California) Girl Barbie, arriving in stores now. To better reflect her single status, Cali Barbie will wear board shorts and a bikini top, metal hoop earrings, and have a deeper tan.

This new style has already attracted a new admirer, Blaine the Australian boogie boarder.

Barbie - the most popular fashion doll in the world, according to toy maker Mattel - met Ken on the set of a TV commercial in 1961, and they have been inseparable ever since.

Arons hinted yesterday that the separation may be partially due to Ken's reluctance to get married. All those bridal Barbie dolls in toy chests around the globe are really just examples of Barbie's wishful thinking, he explained.

Another possible factor is Barbie's career. The doll who was ``born'' Barbie Millicent Roberts in 1959 has been everything from a rock star to military medic, and she's currently marketed in more than 150 countries.

According to Mattel, every second, three Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.

So where does that leave Ken? Said Arons: "He will head for other waves."

The Associated Press

[yankeedame]

Arons hinted yesterday that the separation may be partially due to Ken's reluctance to get married...

Oh yeah, right. Like Barbi has a better chance of getting this boogie boarder to the altar? Maybe Ken never married Barbi b/c Barbi was always flitting around from career to career. You know, trying to "find" herself. One minute she's a teacher, the next an Army medic, the next a cheerleader, the next world explorer, next a designer...and now...now this! Chasing after some boy-toy.

Call me a cynic but maybe, just maybe, Ken dumped her!

[Bikers4Bush]

Barbi, just another American whore.

[asformeandformyhouse]

Ken, the first metrosexual.

[cyborg]

*LOL* it's pretty pathetic when art starts imitating life.

[TADSLOS]

Well, Ken can always go after the big money and marry a condiment queen.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I'm suprised that she has not traveled to San Francisco and 'married' Edna.

[mtbopfuyn]

Hope Barbie hasn't over extended her credit cards on clothes, shoes, and hairdoes because she'll need every cent she has to support that beach bum.

[beckysueb]

Lol I said that to my hubbie. I bet they will come up with gay dolls and its probably not far down the road.

[Cowboy Bob]

I've always heard that an Aussie likes his Barbi

[skinkinthegrass]

Oh NO! Ken S. Mattel = John F'en Kerry

Say, It ain't so...Of course.

s/ If Ken & the Aussie Beach Bum, were in SF around Valentines, they would be lionized by the ABCNNBC BS. /sarcasm off :))

[dfwgator]

Barbie was Ken's "beard."

[ZOOKER]

Another shrimp on the Barbie?

[Snowy]

Barbi, just another American whore.

Oh come now. My Barbie was always dating G.I. Joe on the side. This is nothing new.

[pikachu]

I can just imagine slightly drunk Ken telling his buddies that 'Barbie was hollow inside, a clothes horse and her breasts were plastic'.

[Incorrigible]

[Cincinatus]

..a slightly drunk Ken telling his buddies that 'Barbie was hollow inside, a clothes horse and her breasts were plastic'.

Maybe a guy without a penis should watch the barbs he throws.

[Iron Matron]

I'm just glad that Barbie did not become gay and start dating some butch barbie or something

[sharktrager]

Yup. Ken's gay and Barbie's a hooker.

[kitkat]

LOL!

[kitkat]

***Barbie was Ken's "beard."***

NO, NO! Ken was Barbie's beard. Just WHO is this Barbie personette, anyway? Where did she get the money to travel all over the world? Where were her American family values? Why didn't she homeschool?

I personally think that Barbie is a democrat, possibly modeled after Theresa Heintz Kerry.