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They Gave Each Kid A Barbie And A Doll With Real Proportions. What They Say Next Really Says It All.Barbie's supposed to be the "all-American girl" with the amazing wardrobe, perfect boyfriend, a million careers, and the dream house every girl wants. But when you compare her to the average American woman, things don't quite measure up. So an artist decided to create a doll modeled after the average American teenager, and the results are pretty amazing.
What's wrong with Barbie?
Well, for one thing, her body dimensions are completely unrealistic. For a school project on eating disorders, college student Galia Slayen took Barbie's measurements and created a life-size version that is disturbing to say the least.
Barbie's unnatural body dimensions inspired Nickolay Lamm.
Artist Nickolay Lamm had the idea to create a new doll based on the dimensions of the average American teenager. He hoped that by creating a toy with a more realistic body type, it might help make kids feel better about themselves.
He took his concept for Lammily, the "average" doll, to Kickstarter in March 2014 to crowdfund the idea. The project quickly went viral, raising over $100,000 in just a few days. In November 2014, Nickolay took one of the first finished Lammily dolls to a local elementary school to see what children would think of her in comparison to the traditional Barbie doll.
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More About Barbie and Lammily (Original Post)
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2014
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mercuryblues
(15,065 posts)1. I bet
Steven and Brian would not be so eager to fix help Barbie with her computer now.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)2. Look at her arms. Can she pick up a fork to feed herself?
mercuryblues
(15,065 posts)3. she doesn't
have to. The super small waist and overly huge chest would make her fall face first into her plate of ice cubes. That is all she can eat and have that small of a waist. If that were a real person some ribs would have to of been surgically removed to achieve that waist.
chrisa
(4,524 posts)4. Kill it with fire
Is that slenderman's daughter?