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  • I wish I could rewind and go back in time and show this to my younger self and sell her.

  • That's gonna be okay.

  • Eventually, you're gonna be a Barbie.

  • I feel like a plus.

  • Esperance is I feel like a cupcake.

  • I feel like a glitter bomb.

  • I personally do feel like Tyra Banks right now.

  • What's that movie?

  • Life size?

  • Yeah, I feel like I'm about to have the best keys an era and invite Barbie and Ken and Skipper.

  • I think Barbie, by having a size inclusive collection, is saying that any woman can be Barbie.

  • It's who's inside and not so much that plastic figure.

  • It's about damn way been here.

  • I think Barbie is saying, I see you like a ladies everywhere.

  • It's important that you see yourself in me.

  • I think it's healthy for young women to understand that there are plenty of different body shapes.

  • Back when I had my prom, they couldn't find a dress in my size.

  • This kind of makes me happy.

  • Like to be able to think about what it would have been like if I would have to dress like this to wear to my prom.

  • Is this the whole thing that, like, you can dress exactly like your Barbie because I might have to take this.

  • Oh, my God.

  • It's my sister.

  • Should have a crown girl.

  • We twins.

  • No shoes.

  • Girl, you can't go out of the house without a fancy hell on.

  • I don't know.

  • I'm like, emotional.

  • I'm kind of the opposite of Barbie.

  • I have dark hair, tattoos and plus size.

  • It's surreal because, like when I was younger and I couldn't fit into the my size Barbie doll dresses like, you know, like they had the Barbies that came with the just for you To where I could never fit those who have always been like a chubby kids.

  • I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.

  • Barbie and I have the same dress.

  • How did that happen?

  • Wow, she doesn't have to deal with the sequence.

  • I went to prom and I had a address that was all Sequins on the top and my under arms were like raw.

  • By the end of the night, I was like, This was a huge mistake.

  • I thought I was gonna have, like, some issue right here because of the sequence.

  • But it feels really comfortable.

  • I do feel like I could start a fire with my armpits right now.

  • That's just something that you're gonna have to deal with is a choice.

  • Maybe, you know, do some tricks, extra deodorant.

  • So it cuts you right and a decent part where you can eat a big sandwich and you'd be OK.

  • I actually go for dresses nowadays that are like past the knee.

  • I do think it's well made.

  • This just has the potential to survive a night of drinking and dancing.

  • What I think of when I think of Barbie, really, my childhood.

  • It was like what I would imagine being an adult when I was younger, I think a boss lady, I would even say nowadays, maybe feminist icon, just a touch growing up with a Barbie and knowing that she was able to do anything.

  • It was nice to know that I could do anything if I really put my mind to it.

  • I was an only child, So Barbie was my friend and was my friend.

  • I grew up with a lesbian mother and my mother never dressed up and never was girly.

  • Barbie was the feminine role model for me because my mom didn't teach me how to dress up.

  • And so when I saw Barbie dressing up, I'm like, OK, I want to Just like that I had an imaginary friend when I was younger and she was tall, blond, white girl, like, very skinny.

  • Just exactly that.

  • Why we looks nothing like me.

  • I don't know if I really compared myself to Barbie.

  • I think I just like playing with dolls.

  • Oji Burbey I would say proportionately is not necessarily accurate to women, but she's very pretty, has beautiful hair and little hands of little feet.

  • I think I was always compared to Bobby.

  • I'm told.

  • I'm wide.

  • I have blond hair and blue eyes, but I'm about £100 too heavy.

  • Always jealous of Bobby.

  • I work call as a child, looking at her body going.

  • Is this what I'm going to be looking like and looking at my mother and thinking?

  • Where do I fit in this?

  • There were undertones that I didn't even realize I'm picking up on, for instance, the classic waistline.

  • I think even now, as an adult, I'm affected with how you know society was looking at bodies of women at the time.

  • When Cinderella came out with Brandy, she had her own Barbie, and that was my favorite bar B.

  • Could she have the grades?

  • I saw just getting my hair really young.

  • I wanted her to be like Barbie.

  • I even went to the extent of, like, bleaching my hair when I was a kid.

  • I would have just wanted a Barbie with curly hair like that would have been like the thing that I could have resonated with.

  • I know my mom's side of my family and they're all white, and I'm the one that sticks out.

  • If I had a Barbie that looked more like me, I would have been more confident about my curly hair and my darker skin tone.

  • Then my family members a lot sooner.

  • When I was little, I used to put a little tissue around my Barbie.

  • I taped tissue on my Barbie like and then put the dresses over so that the bar we could look more like me.

  • And so I wanted the Barbie toe have like a little belly like I did when I was little.

  • My friends used to make fun of me like what's wrong with your Barbie.

  • I'm like she's more realistic now.

  • She looks like me.

  • I had to sum like Barbie trunk, and it has, like, these pictures of Barbie on it like I don't look like that.

  • That doesn't look like me.

  • Like, I just want, like, down line of like, all the different Barbies on that trunk.

  • And then it kind of just like internalize that over the years.

  • You know, it's not Barbie's fault, per se.

  • You're seeing these images, they're out there and you don't look like them.

  • So then you kind of like have, like, an inadequacy issue.

  • It definitely could have shaped the way I looked at the world as in, there is no other look than this.

  • It was very important to me to have a black Barbie because I was a black kid with a black moment like that, kind of just relating to my actual life.

  • Having an array of Barbies as a kid, as opposed to only ones that looked like me, allowed me to have an understanding that the world outside was made above.

  • You know, this melting pot of people.

  • I think I got used to not seeing dolls that look like me.

  • I just thought, Oh, I'm the biggest one in the room, You know, it is what it is.

  • But then, as I got older and I realized that, you know, I am worthy of seeing someone that looks like me.

  • And so when the plus size Barbies launched, I was so excited.

  • Barbie has definitely changed a lot, and now they have Barbies, of all different sizes and all different backgrounds.

  • Kids now could have a Barbie that's, you know, a little thicker, a little shorter, taller, thinner freckles, different color hair.

  • In the eighth grade, I was diagnosed with little I grow, and they actually came out recently with the video Legos.

  • Also, I think having that doll and having that representation back then I definitely would have helped me out.

  • I went to go buy the curvy Bobby, and I couldn't find it anywhere on shelves.

  • It took me two weeks to buy it online.

  • Now she's, you know, like Congresswoman and like he's the gymnasts and she's all these amazing things, and it's healthy to see, like we need to see that I think Barbie is just a doll.

  • That's what she looks like to me.

  • She doesn't look like me.

  • Well, I think that she'll ever look like me.

  • But I am happy that there is a curvy Barbie, a plus sized Barbie and also Barbies that come, like in different roles, like a scientist.

  • Ah, pilot like that, I think is rad.

  • And I love it.

  • To see this dress on a bunch of different women is is very empowering.

  • Having the opportunity to aware of our address in any size could be almost magical.

  • Barbie, you rock keep rocking girl power.

  • But that was right.

  • She's working hard at making everyone feel like the badass bitch that she is a bad ass bitch.

  • Sorry, Barbie.

  • I don't want to be like a Barbie.

I wish I could rewind and go back in time and show this to my younger self and sell her.

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