I remember hearing the truth about Barbie when I was in Middle School. I have no idea what the context was, but I remember feeling shocked at the fact that if Barbie were real, she’d have a 39-inch bust, an 18-inch waist and 33-inch hips. Of course, it’s hard to convert those measurements directly to a mental image, but it’s safe to assume that it’s pretty unattainable.
But “easy enough” to imagine wasn’t good enough for college student Galia Slayen. In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Galia recently decided to create a real, life size Barbie, based on these measurements. Watch her tell her story in this week’s Saturday Vid:
Oh lawd. There is some debate over whether or not this product is real, according to ParentDish. I really hope it’s not, and yet I can sort of believe that it is, considering that British store Tesco released a similar product in 2006, (although it was about 10 times more offensive) — the Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit. It included a chrome pole, a ’sexy dance garter’ and an instructional DVD. It was condemned as “extremely dangerous” and even capable of “destroy(ing) children’s lives.”
Well, maybe a pole dancing kit won’t destroy lives. I don’t actually think every kid who would buy this would become a stripper. Why would we assume that little kids are SO STUPID that a doll they played with as little…
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