Life-Size Barbie Gets Women Talking

I received my first Barbie on my sixth birthday. Did playing with Barbie and her friends have anything to do with the body image issues I've had over the years? It's hard to say. I do remember wishing I looked more like Barbie, with her hourglass curves and long legs. I didn't quite want to look like this, though.

I love that Galia Slayen has created this life-size Barbie. I'm hopeful that her efforts will inspire even more accurate, appropriate recreations of the female form. Perhaps those efforts will inspire Mattel to consider developing a Barbie that's more realistic. I'd also love to see Barbie dolls with different body types, rather than one body with different heads.

In the meantime, I hope that Slayen's work will get women thinking and talking about how we're portrayed in media, and how we interpret it. 

Here's a link to an article published in Today Magazine about Galia and her life-size Barbie:

Life-Size Barbie Gets Real Women Talking