What would Barbie look like if she were modeled after the average American woman?
Very different, it turns out.
Artist Nickolay Lamm of MyDeals.com used CDC measurements of an average 19-year-old woman to create a 3-D model, which he photographed next to a standard Barbie doll.
Lamm then photoshopped the 3-D model to make it look like a Barbie doll.
"If we criticize skinny models, we should at least be open to the possibility that Barbie may negatively influence young girls as well," Lamm said in an email to the Huffington Post. "Furthermore, a realistically proportioned Barbie actually looks pretty good."
Considering how peculiar a Barbie body would look in real life, Lamm concluded: "If there's even a small chance of Barbie in its present form negatively influencing girls, and if Barbie looks good as an average-sized woman in America, what's stopping Mattel from making one?"
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Interesting. Since they're focusing on "American" women, it would be nice to see some Hispanic, Asian and black Barbie's as well.
America is afterall, one of the planet's largest 'salad bowls.' I suppose they have to start form somewhere.
Did you notice they even made her face rounder? "E" for effort, but do you think this is a good depiction of the "average" American woman's body size?
Nicolai Lamm is also responsible for "Barbie's with no Makeup"
Check him out. http://nickolaylamm.com/
And of course, there's the woman who thinks she's a REAL LIVING Barbie..
Valeria Lukyanova
WHATEVS..
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