Mattel, the company that makes the Barbie doll has announced a new line of dolls, the Barbie Fashionista dolls, which will be markedly different from the traditional, anatomically impossible Barbie doll.
The tiny-waisted, long-legged, dolls with their ‘perfect’ breasts have come under fire for promoting unrealistic standards of beauty among girls and young women. The Barbie Fashionista line is Mattel’s effort at creating a more ‘real’, easy-to relate-to doll, which will celebrate a number of skin, body, clothing and hair types.
The new Barbie comes in three body types: curvy, petite and tall. The website claims that the line includes seven different skin types and 18 hairstyles.
Here’s what some of their new dolls look like: