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Part-time model, who has been tanning since the age of 14, uses sunbeds for 20 minutes, five days a week A 'real-life Barbie doll' is so addicted to tanning she sneaks behind her husband's back and gets up in the dead of night just to get her sunbed fix every day.

Protesters demonstrating against materialist stereotypes of women are interviewed by a television reporter outside the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience on May 16, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

Sun Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Days of Malibu living are long gone for Barbie.

We Brits really do love a barbie, don't we? But, oh dear. I think if we're honest, most of us are blooming terrible at actually pulling a decent one off.

The opening of the the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience near Alexanderplatz square in Berlin , Germany, was marred by a crowd of feminists with nothing better to do than protest an 11 inch plastic child's toy on May 16, 2013.

Groups of picketers gathered to protest the opening of the exhibition, which they said perpetuated the image of Barbie as a sexist icon.

I was walking through the home of a man I was interviewing when I spotted them. Skulls and skeletons in a range of colours and different sizes all perched around a small bar in the corner of the living room.

Feminist protesters burned a doll on a cross and left-wing demonstrators shouted "pink stinks" at the Berlin opening of a life-sized Barbie house Thursday.

While a Barbie-themed restaurant opening was hailed with general delight and fanfare in Taipei earlier this year, the opening of the blonde doll's new European digs is being met with quite a different reception in Germany.

She's 25, is touring a platinum album, and has more Billboard number one pop songs than any other artists for the past 20 years.

Among the competitors for Babe of the Week this week are an NFL cheerleader, a sexy, tattooed librarian, and a Bolivian barbie doll.

Days of Malibu living are long gone for Barbie. The iconic doll has moved to Florida and is inviting people to step into her life-size dream house, the first one now open worldwide.

It's finally here! Barbie's fabulous interactive mansion is coming to a mall near you! One opened last week in Florida and another opens this week in Berlin ! It has Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse regrets that "the vast majority of little girls play with a doll that, if she were real, would be anorexic and whose life would consist of waiting for Ken in ... (more)

And now, after just one year in her current Malibu Dreamhouse, Barbie has put her palatial, three-storey home on the market, and is moving into a new, even grander pad.

The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon.

In honor of Mother's Day, this article will look at Barbie 's origins and family.

Zoe, Zinta and Ella, all 12, believe it's better to have good friends and a healthy mind and body than to strive for the perfect body.

As expected, with Kristen Wiig 's return to SNL came the revisiting of her famous ugly duckling "Denise" character, who did her usual spiel of ruining cutesy Lawrence Welk Show moments with her awkward looks, unseemly manners, and socially-inappropriate behavior.

A selection of elegant porcelain dolls, Barbie dolls and rag dolls will come to life through creative and colourful photography at a student exhibition in Aberdeen later this month.

The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon.