A California woman calls herself a "plus-sized" Barbie. She said she's accepted her larger body size and is full of confidence, just as the popular toy doll is, she said.

As soon as she spotted it, Grace Caroline told Newsweek that she "immediately recognized the significance of this Barbie" and ...

Barbie is honoring women in music with two new dolls representing two important roles: musical artist and tour manager.. The doll brand teamed up with Grammy award-winning singer Alicia Keys, her ...

Before Barbie's official debut in 1959, most young girls were given baby dolls as toys, meaning that they often found ...

Either apparently wholesome mom Barbara Handler named the doll for her daughter, or sex-obsessed missile designer Jack Ryan used his “ideal woman” as a model.

Barbie has just announced that they are creating dolls of real women, like Frida Kahlo, for International Women's Day 2018. Find out more about the dolls. Open side menu button ...

This graphic shows what doll-size Barbie would look like as a real woman. The results are dangerous and unrealistic. Barbie would be 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 110 pounds.

Mattel released eight new one-of-a-kind Barbie dolls for International Women's Day, honoring female friendship. The dolls are modeled after gymnasts Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey, disability ...

As the Barbie doll’s popularity boomed in the 1960s, her name did, too. Some real-life Barbies have embraced the name – and have fond memories of their Barbie dolls – while some Barbaras ...

Ann's mother knitted a sweater for her Barbie doll with an "R" on it to represent her brother's high school Ann Batchelder. I was 11 years old by then and starting to understand that women were ...

Even the first Barbie Dreamhouse in 1962 did not include a kitchen or cleaning supplies, but a casual and fun independent living space for the doll—a novel idea for women at the time—while ...

Barbie – which in the doll's case, is short for Barbara Millicent Roberts – was already a nickname for Barbara long before Mattel's version hit the shelves, and a name some parents gave their ...