Washington Blade – This amazing news, coupled with the Barbie Dream House my parents were caught red-handed assembling on the living room rug, was almost more than I could stand. The toy I wanted most, and narrowly missing the man himself after years of willing myself

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Montreal Gazette – I read this week that Hilary Duff’s image is going to be used on a new Barbie doll. Not sure what the big deal is; hasn’t Tie Domi’s likeness been inspiring Cabbage Patch Kids for years? Not much ink From T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times: “If

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Charlotte.com – As a little girl, Anya played dress-up with Barbie dolls. She cut their hair and outfitted them, then made her mom sit through coffee-table runway shows. It wasn’t until she was a freshman in high school that she explored modeling. On a lark, mother

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Cape Cod Today – You remember the TP cozy–it was a crocheted dress over a plastic Barbie-like doll. You shoved her legs and torso in the TP roll and fanned her lovely dress around the top of the commode, graciously and gracefully hiding the offending paper product