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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.

Last year, artist Nickolay Lamm created an alternative: a doll with a body based on the average measurements of a 19-year-old American woman, taken from the Centers for Disease Control .

Pictures of police brutality supposedly from protests in Venezuela are spreading all over social media, but they may not have been taken in the South American country; an average-sized healthy version of a Barbie doll is being developed; meanwhile, the worst revelation Edward Snowden made is that the U.S. government is trying to discredit political ... (more)

There has already been an online petition for plus-size versions of Barbie , but artist Nikolay Lamm has gone one step further and launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a Barbie doll that offers a realistic interpretation of women.

In "Back to the Future Part II," Marty McFly rides a hoverboard in the fictional year of 2015.