There are now 176 dolls with the new additions unveiled this week.
BARBIE DOLL WEAVEIT SKIN
In 2016, Mattel launched the “ Fashionista” Barbie line, which included curvier body types and different skin tones, facial features and hair textures. “I’ll need Steven’s and Brian’s help to turn it into a real game,” she said. In the book, “I Can Be a Computer Engineer,” Barbie laughingly explained to her kid sister, Skipper, that she could design only a puppy on her laptop. In 2010, the company was forced to apologize for a book about Barbie and computers. Once one of the world’s top-selling dolls, Barbie struggled to stay relevant in the early 2000s as other toy companies began manufacturing dolls that showed more diversity and as parents steered their children away from a doll that had become an emblem of unrealistic and even toxic beauty. She remembers store clerks refusing to take money from her hand.
Pavlides, 74, whose condition was diagnosed when she was 22. “It shows children that if they can make a doll that looks like them then they’re O.K.,” said Ms. People with the condition have white patches or irregular shapes on the skin that can grow and spread.įor children with the condition, a doll with a face that looks like theirs could help them with the social stigma associated with vitiligo, Ms. The foundation features stories of children and young men and women with vitiligo, an autoimmune condition with no known cure in which the body attacks the cells that give skin its color.
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