Non-traditional Barbie - "Normal Barbie"

                      I chose to represent  “Normal Barbie”. This Barbie was created with the dimensions of the average American woman. She also has tattoos, pimples and stretch marks, which are very common features on an American woman. This marks a change because for so long Barbie and other dolls have often represented an unrealistic and impossible to obtain standard of beauty. If most Barbie’s were actual humans they would be unable to stand or function because their proportions are make it impossible to do so. By making Barbie a more realistic size and giving her “flaws” such as acne, it represents a change in how woman and especially young girls perceive beauty and what it means to be beautiful. It gives them more of sense that no one is perfect and no one has to look one specific way to be beautiful. It is an important realization, that children’s toys have an effect on children’s self esteem and the way we represent reality to children can affect them later in life.