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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.

Because both her music and her overall brand is a mixture of in-your-face raunchiness and Barbie doll like femininity, so it's probably not shocking she posted a bunch of sexy selfies on her Instagram account for the second time in recent months .

Dhoom 3 merchandise & technology products were introduced at a star-studded media event in November attended by Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif.

An artist who created a 'realistic' Barbie-like doll - made to match actual dimensions of an average woman - has raised more than double the money needed to begin selling the toy.

Over the years, the doll who can do it all has had quite a few interesting spinoffs.

In other words, Barbie's so classically, generically, blonde-ly not real, her substitution in that iconic spot on the SI Swimsuit cover, for devotees that have all those "actual" covers stored in their heads, is like a lure to recollect every blonde who were ever real/really there.

She may be nearing 55, but Barbie is still a hot ticket. Last year, the Career of the Year Mars Explorer Barbie doll was released, and Barbie's latest, non-Mattel incarnation is a version of the doll with normal body proportions .

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Criticisms of Barbie's unnatural proportions and vapid lifestyle are nothing new; believe it or not, it's been twenty years since Lisa Lionheart took on Malibu Stacey on The Simpsons.

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A partnership between Mattel's Barbie and the Girl Scouts is under fire from two advocacy groups who say the deal harms young girls.

Since 1959, Barbie has been one of the most successful toys in the United States, making her way into the homes of young girls for generations.

A U.S. Army general accused of sexual assault was set to plead guilty to three lesser charges Thursday in a move that his lawyer says will strengthen his position going into trial.

We always thought that "Gossip Girl's" Serena van der Woodsen was a Barbie. OK, not really, but judging from a new Barbie product, it seems that the no-regrets doll is modeled after another blonde beauty.