Barbie dolls Facts

• Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
• If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck
• Barbie was originally based on the “Bild Lili doll”, a prostitute in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin and first sold in Germany in 1955. The doll was marketed to adult men in bars and tobacco shops, not to children
• Barbie’s boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage
• Ruth Handler, the co-founder of Mattel, was also the inventor of prosthetic breast implants
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