Video Of Mom Drawing ‘Tiger Stripes’ On Barbie Sparks Debates Barbie Debates
Most little kids had a Barbie growing up. Mine was a princess and she had a white horse. I spent hours playing with her, imagining how one day I too would be a long-haired princess and have a horse named Sugar. Barbies represented the perfect world that, if we’re lucky, we will grow into. Mum Kate Claxton wanted to add a dash of reality to that fantasy world and show her daughter that even perfect Barbies have stretch marks and it’s completely normal.
Kate faced serious body image struggles when growing up, perpetuated by perfect models in the heavily photoshopped magazine pictures and diet culture. She doesn’t want her daughter to suffer from the same fate, so she is doing everything in her power to raise a confident girl who is not affected by unrealistic body standards.
The world is slowly moving in a positive direction. Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbie, has already made changes. They feature dolls of different professions, ethnicities, disabilities, and body types. Perhaps Claxton’s call for stretch marks will work as a reminder that there is still a lot of work to do.
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