I love Barbie. I don't feel as though I have been her victim of body image issues because of her insane and impossible physical proportions. Barbie rocks. She has more clothes than Paris Hilton, college degrees like you can't imagine, and great legs. What's not to love?
As a kid, my cousin gave my sisters and I a giant bag full of Barbies, clothes and accessories. I loved playing with them and coming up with scandalous story lines involving Ken and the trampy little sister, Skipper. Mine always was something like this:
Barbie is a working woman, typically a lawyer or ad executive. Ken is lazy, but hot, so he's forgiven for not having a job. That is, until Barbie finds Ken and her sister, Skipper, kissing one day. Barbie drives off, in her pink Corvette, in a huff, determined that she and Ken are done. Ken races after her because he realizes that it's Barbie he wants and Skipper was just a distraction. In his haste, Ken overcorrects his car, hits a light pole, and breaks his leg. Barbie rushes to his side at the hospital where they makeup and kiss in his hospital bed.
Barbie was good for my creative side, even though most of my stories were some variance of the one above. I have no idea how I came up with that stuff because we weren't even allowed to watch Baywatch or 90210 when I was growing up. Sheltered!
What's your story?
5 comments:
I never had a Ken doll so my Barbie stories were pretty lame or they involved them falling in love with a midget GiJoe action figure I stole from my brothers.
That story is pretty creative. I can't imagine how they would have changed had you been allowed to watch Bay Watch or 90210. But it looks like you didn't need those shows.
mine usually involved the ever sexy kokoum (from Pocohontas--- HOT!) or the prince from beauty and the beast OR Karl Malone (we had a black barbie... we're very well rounded) I loved have my barbies say "oh my G@$ because I never said it and they always drank Champagne... I guess I was a repressed mormon!!!
I never had barbies... if I got barbies for gifts we always tore them apart and barbie usually ended up with a firecracker or 5 in her head.
Are we really that surprised?
Barbie and Ken always met at the grocery store in the pickle isle. Dill or sweet? It can be a deal-breaker!
I mainly focused on the clothes and hair and boobs of the Barbie dolls!! haha! I had tons of fun trying on all their clothes and mixing and matching them. I actually learned how to french braid on the barbie doll for the first time!
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