It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.
I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.
Barbie is my role modle. She might not do anything, but she looks good doing it.
I'm excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices.
Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.
Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'
From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car.
If Barbie was a real person, she'd be, like, 10 feet tall in order for her legs to be proportionate to her torso.
I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.
I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.
The worst present I got was when I was 10. I had specifically wished for a Barbie horse. My dad got me a cheap, poorly made version of it and I cried all evening.
I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in 'Toy Story 2.'
I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.
I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.
I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?
I would just take dolls around the house - there's old VHS footage from my dad, who was an early adapter and had this RCA camera - and it's me taking a Michael Jackson Barbie doll and putting on a show with that.
We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.
It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those.
There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.
She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
I really don't agree with people who look literally plastic like Barbie dolls. I just don't think that's attractive.
Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.
Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?
I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'
I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.
I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.
For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.
I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
I'm a big Aqua fan. "Barbie Girl" was a big deal growing up.
Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything. -Lula
I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.
"Forget Barbie, f-ck Nicki she's fake. She's on a diet", but my pockets eating cheese cake.
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
For many young girls, [Barbie is] their first association with fashion and dressing up and changing clothes.
I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
Me myself, Brian, I'm a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I've found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man.
He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.
My Barbie doll is definitely a reflection of me and my personality. My doll is so detailed, she even has my same beauty marks.
I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up.
Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.
The best part about my job is that I'm pampered and always treated like a Barbie doll on the sets. But the worst part is that I have to work daily without many breaks.
Our viewers are loyal. They've seen Pat and me together for 30 years. It's like Ken and Barbie. How do you break them up?
Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!
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