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Post by Shane for Wax on Apr 28, 2011 7:58:39 GMT -5
People talk and talk about how unrealistic Barbie’s 39-18-33 measurements would be if she were a real live girl. Hamilton College student Galia Slayen took the talk a step further and actually built a real life-size Barbie. Slayen, who dressed her 6-foot-tall Barbie doll in a size 00 skirt she wore during her battle with anorexia, says she created the model to get people taking about eating disorders, but doesn’t blame her illness on the plastic icon’s distorted proportions alone. “She’s one small factor, an environmental factor,” Slayen told TODAY.com. “I’m blond and blue-eyed and I figured that was what I was supposed to look like. She was my idol. It impacted the way I looked at myself.” www.huffingtonpost.com/galia-slayen/the-scary-reality-of-a-re_b_845239.html
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 28, 2011 8:46:17 GMT -5
This is why I don't give measurements. You end up with the Thing from Planet X.
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Post by Ranger Joe on Apr 28, 2011 9:48:16 GMT -5
Barbie looks like she's wearing foot ball shoulder pads with balloons on the front...
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 28, 2011 10:07:14 GMT -5
The breasts are made from balloons. It says so in the article.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Apr 28, 2011 10:16:41 GMT -5
Damn, Barbie's a freak.
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 28, 2011 12:43:12 GMT -5
Hot bitch right there, she gon' get some tail.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Apr 28, 2011 14:34:04 GMT -5
It is nice to be able to say that we're all hotter than Barbie.
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Post by Old Viking on Apr 28, 2011 18:00:31 GMT -5
Pinhead.
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Post by Oriet on Apr 28, 2011 19:32:15 GMT -5
That doesn't look like the Barbies I played with when I was a kid. In fact, it looks proportioned to a Barbie how a Barbie is proportioned to a slender, buxom woman.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Apr 28, 2011 20:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 28, 2011 22:12:12 GMT -5
That doesn't look like the Barbies I played with when I was a kid. In fact, it looks proportioned to a Barbie how a Barbie is proportioned to a slender, buxom woman. It could be that it's less noticeable when scaled down.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Apr 28, 2011 22:41:52 GMT -5
I think the head and the tits had their measurements mixed up...
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Post by sylvana on Apr 29, 2011 1:58:35 GMT -5
Yeah, that looks nothing like the barbies I played with. for one thing the head was larger. The arms were a little thicker. also so was the legs I think. Don't get me wrong though, barbie is a freak, but that full scale barbie there is not the same as the freak I played with.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Apr 29, 2011 1:59:18 GMT -5
Looks similar to me.
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Post by wmdkitty on Apr 29, 2011 6:40:32 GMT -5
Looks about right, but it's been ages since I've actually had my hands on a Barbie doll... and that was only to hand it off to my sister.
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