Galia Slayen, an American high school student, made a life size model of a Barbie doll, in the same proportions as the doll. The Barbie stands about 6 feet tall with a 39" bust, 18" waist and 33" hips (and I can’t be stuffed trying to convert that to metric). I’m also trying to figure out if she’s got an unnaturally small head, or is that just by comparison to her ginormous boobs.
Slayen made the doll replica as a school project about eating disorders – she herself suffered with anorexia for a year, She said:
“Talking about eating disorders is taboo to many people, and this made people talk about it,”
“It’s a shocking image. A lot of people have seen it, and it’s started debates,”
Talk about a freakshow. I can only assume that there must have been some sort of major nuclear accident in Malibu (wherever Barbie is from?) around the time Barbie was conceived, and that this mutation is the result.
