A Real Life Barbie!

A Real Life Barbie? I Don’t Think So!

At what point did it become okay to look like a doll?

I’ve always thought that dolls were modeled after humans. You know, like in a factory somewhere in China. But at some point, some women decided that for them to look “perfect,” they had to look like a doll—Barbie to be exact!

To transform oneself into a Barbie doll is not an easy task. The actual Barbie is supposed to be 5’9”, with 39” breasts, an 18” waist (!?!?!), and 33” hips.

Now, I’m out in the world quite a bit. I don’t see any women who look like Barbie, or who could look like one, no matter how hard they tried. It’s not practical, nor healthy.

Women have tried, and have done a pretty freaky job of attaining a crazy likeness to the little famous plastic doll, but at what cost? In some of the pictures I saw, the likeness was similar, I couldn’t tell if the picture was of a doll, or a real life human woman. Some of the women have gone as far as to remove some ribs (for that 18” waist), and to have work done on the eyes to make them look doll like.

Real women are not fashioned after dolls. Real women come in all shapes and sizes. Some have big boobs, some small, some smooth skins, some stretch marks, some tall, some short, etc. Women run the gambit. That’s true life.

While researching this topic, I did find a couple of men who have transformed themselves into Ken dolls. Okay. I can’t even begin to talk about this one.

Sadly, it’s usually women who feel so bad about their bodies, that they put themselves through extreme measures to change them, at times even costing them their lives.

If you want to look better, do so in a healthy way. Work out. Eat healthfully. Avoid toxins. Be you! Don’t try to look like a doll. Embrace who you are, and work on enhancing the very things that make you womanly, or manly.

Don’t compromise yourself, or your health to become an inanimate object. And bear in mind the Barbie will not age. But you will. Who will you be then?