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Below, watch highlights Late Night with Seth Meyers monologue from last night's broadcast: Barbie, the world's most famous doll turned 55 on Sunday.

When I was a little girl, my favorite dolls came from Mattel and had wildly inhuman proportions.

Barbie stars as Lumina, a mermaid who dreams of being a princess. As long as she can remember, she's had a magical power that makes pearls dance and glow! Lumina, and her best friend Kuda, a pink seahorse, embark on an adventure to a majestic mer-kingdom.

The push is for women to love their bodies the way they are, which is a message that Kirim Roberson wants her two-year-old daughter to grow up knowing.

BEIRUT: An iconic plastic doll has been one of Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad's most high-profile clients over the past year.

About a year ago, I stopped seeing a man I'll call "Vince." Since then he has been stalking me.

Girls who play with Barbie dolls tend to see fewer career options available to them compared with the options available to boys, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon State and UC Santa Cruz.

Many people feel that Barbie is an outdated icon of femininity, and that nowadays girls would rather be empowered by their abilities rather than just their good looks and material possessions.

On March 5, digital artist Nickolay Lamm launched a crowdfunding campaign to make a toy doll modeled after Barbie - but with a twist: The doll would have the proportions of the average 19-year-old woman, according to statistics by the Center for Disease Control.

Gossip Girl is full of beautiful ladies so it comes as no surprise that a Blake Lively Barbie now exists for fans and admirers to purchase.

I don't have a daughter, but if I did, I would never let her play with Barbie dolls.

Alabama's highest court is divided over whether the state Legislature is acting legally by rewriting the state Constitution a few portions at a time.

The coming together of the Barbie doll with Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue unites two iconic American brands.

Though Barbie boasts more than 130 careers on her resume from aerobics instructor to astronaut, the imagined job prospects for girls who play with the iconic doll may look quite different.

It's only a matter of time, before she installs a 24 hour live cam in her vagina.

Don't suggest to Fort Wayne Community Schools Superintendent Wendy Robinson that public education has anything in common with welfare.

Her body shape is based on averages of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The fact that WE are paying for such stupid data bothers me more than the name.

Next to regular Barbie -- that unrealistically proportioned nemesis of "normal" female bodies everywhere -- the more compact stature and rounder curves of "Average Barbie," created by Greenfield artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm, looked like a healthier version of the female form to many who saw it online.

Girls who play with Barbie dolls see fewer career options for themselves than boys, according to an Oregon State University study.

Nickolay Lamm didn't major in marketing at the University of Pittsburgh to make dolls.