Real life barbies

It is obvious that barbie has had a negative affect on some people. Since girls are given barbie from a young age, they may aspire to be like her.Take this Ukrainian girl for example, who had surgery to look like barbie.

She is only 21, and before and after photos of her show that she was beautiful before she had surgery!

Why would a girl do this to herself? It seems like Valeria thinks that barbie has the perfect body and, uncomftable with her own, thinks that if she too can look like barbie she will be "perfect". This is the dismal result that has come from our childhood toy's influence on girls. Obviously this is an extreme, but it proves the negative affect barbie has on girls. Valeries surgery to look like barbie will not only have an affect on her mental health, but also on her physical health. This article, suggests that Valeria would have to have gotten a lot of crazy work done to look the way she does now and she may have even had ribs removed. It also suggests in the article that having such platic surgery at such a young age may take its toll on her health.

Here's another real life barbie, her name is Cindy Jackson and she is an older barbie look-alike. Read about her story here. She too had a desire to look beautiful and turned to plastic surgery for this. She admits that she always wanted to look like barbie, even when she was 6 years old!

Don't you think these stories are so sad? Girls thinking that they aren't good enough and turning to plastic surgery. I know that getting rid of barbie might not solve the problem completely but it will take away one of the unrealistic bodies that is portrayed to young girls as "perfect." These woman are living proof of the sad results of our not so innocent barbie doll.