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Good role model or not?
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How Barbie came to life
Invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter and Ken after her son.
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Purpose of Barbie
The original purpose for the Barbie doll was to be a child’s play toy. But after it came out little girls started looking up to the model figure and wanted to be just like her.
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Role Model Material?
Known to cause girls self esteem problems, body issues, diseases, and body image obsession.
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Self esteem
Some little girls look up to Barbie and wish to be like her , they want to look like her and feel “ugly” if they don’t.
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Body issues
Barbie’s body is impossible to get and many girls end up having personal body issues because of that…
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When someone wants Barbie’s body they will go to extreme levels, and in the end they may regret it.
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Diseases
Some girls end up developing eating disorders trying to get skinny
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Obsessions
Can become obsessed with something they don’t like about themselves or wish to change about themselves
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Extreme levels
Many go under the knife to become the real life Barbie
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Too far……
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Before and after
Valeria Lukyanova transformed herself into a living doll
Heidi Montag from The Hills underwent 10 plastic surgeries in one day for the Barbie image
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Sarah Burge
Mother of 2 girls that considers herself the “Barbie Mom”
Was on Anderson Cooper and got kicked off for her outrageous interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psigRG_JJwA
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Mom material? Sarah got her teen daughter to get
Botox done so she doesn’t sweat and get nasty
Taught her 7 year old to pole dance and bought her a Botox and boob job voucher for when she turns 18
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Other choices...
No need for girls to look up to Barbie
Other dolls with a positive outlook
Been proven to increase the self esteem by 36%
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Emme Doll Designed after the plus sized model from
England Emme Aims for a healthy body and promotes
body image Self esteem is higher with girls who play
with her
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Lottie Doll
Face and body of an actual little girl Wardrobe that a real little girl would
wear
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The EndAny Questions???