What if barbie was human

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Why would I let my daughter play with such a toy? I remember the first Barbie doll she received when she was 2. It was actually a Disney Princess doll the size of a Barbie. And then she turned 3 and it was if that was the default birthday gift for the next 7 years of her life. Recently the internet has dissected the plastic doll and figured out exactly how fake Barbie really is. Check out these details if Barbie were actually a real person.

Ever wonder what scale is Barbie? Like how tall is she, how much does Barbie weigh if she was a real woman. Uh, Ken, you better watch out.

So as you might expect, most Barbies look nothing like average Americans, as fit as they may be. In fact, researchers found that the chance of a woman having traditional Barbie's proportions is less than one in , And that's a problem.

Deborah Tolman: My name's Deborah Tolman. I'm a professor of critical social psychology and women and gender studies at Hunter College at City University of New York. Tolman: Dolls actually have an enormous effect on girls' and boys' sense of themselves, their ideas about body, particular thin-body ideals. If you have an ideal, and you're never able to achieve it, you don't need a psychological study to show that it makes you feel bad.

Narrator: But there are plenty of studies that do. A study published in , for example, found that young girls who are exposed to Barbie-doll images had more body dissatisfaction and lower body esteem compared to girls who were shown similar pictures of a larger-sized doll.

But fortunately, it goes both ways. Tolman: Playing with a more, I guess, quote, chubby doll actually suppresses the desire for a thin body. So thinking about it only as negative really doesn't tell the full story because there are ways that we can introduce dolls and play that will actually yield protective effects. Narrator: And that's why some experts applaud Mattel for creating Curvy Barbie. But it's also led to a whole new business for people who want to make even more realistic dolls because let's face it, Curvy Barbie still doesn't depict the average American woman.

The Petite is very extremely slim, and the Tall is basically like essentially the original Barbie, except kind of a little bit taller. Valeria and Olga take a long time thoughtfully browsing through the movies, most of which they have seen, and pick three. We bump and shake our way through a heavy-metal-scored dinosaur attack, a supernatural haunted house, and a sci-fi flight sequence that includes a detour into a giant worm's stomach water-spritz time. Afterward, Valeria takes a shine to a particular wall of the theater lobby—it goes well with her outfit—so Olga, the Beta Barbie, photographs her against it.

The ticket taker watches them from her booth, transfixed. We walk through the mall, maneuvering around clusters of children out with their parents. I begin to wonder whether a nuclear family—the ostensible endgame of the Odessa bride—is in the cards for Valeria and Olga. I carefully broach the subject. The topic has clearly shaken something loose in Valeria.

In her view, expressed in a staccato rant, parenting is the pinnacle of selfishness. They just try to shape her according to some weird script—whatever they couldn't do in life, like becoming a writer or a doctor. Or some woman who's almost 30 and thinks no one needs her, she says, 'Oh, I'll have a kid. He will love me and become my reason to live.

So they can get you a glass of water when you're on your deathbed? Snake charmers: Valeria left displays impressive serpent-handling skills with one of her acolytes, Olga Dominika Oleynik. It's Valentine's day in Odessa, and half the city walks around with flowers and red balloons. Strip clubs and marriage agencies are hawking discounts.

A steak house called SteakHouse, a prime foreigner pickup spot, fills with the standard Ukrainian combos of beautiful women and old men. Valeria says she is too busy to meet me today.

On her Valentine's Day schedule: a salon called Angel of a Genius, to freshen up those fractal nail patterns from the twenty-first dimension, which will take about three hours, then the gym for a couple of hours of hydrotherapy i. Tonight she is guesting on a Turkish talk show in Istanbul. Dmitry is coming too, on his own dime. Using the salon's bizarre name, I decide to find it and ambush Barbie there.

I walk into what turns out to be an ordinary white-walled space and find Valeria seated between a morose fifty-something lady and a chestnut-haired teen, both getting traditional French nails in our own three dimensions.

Valeria is only about 60 percent Barbie today; it even takes me a second to pick her out among the clientele. She is dressed in a gray cashmere sweater and a pair of snug jeans, her makeup pale and minimal. Her eyes seem smaller. A pink-faced Ukrainian master is seated opposite her, deftly working a nail file. Valeria's frail hand atop hers looks like E. If she is surprised or unhappy to see me, she doesn't let on. I ask her about the Turkish TV show: Is this part of a larger plan for international expansion?

Why waste myself on this? Earlier in the year, the duo visited the States to gauge the level of showbiz interest; the visit itself was reported by everyone from V Magazine to Gawker, and Valeria enjoyed a nice feud with America's own "Human Ken," Justin Jedlica, but none of it generated any Hollywood offers. The first one had long been announced on her website, then moved, then canceled.

She's also working on a New Age opera, because why not. Whatever works. And the amazing part is, it works, her thing. It does. In a place that expects a woman to prepare for marriage and motherhood "from the moment she is given her first baby doll as an infant," as Hutsol has put it, Valeria has gotten a degree of power, a degree of control, and a major say in her own destiny.

It could be that the world and I have misjudged the Human Barbie in a fundamental way.