In honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platnum Jubilee, Mattle released a Barbie doll of her on her 96th birthday.
The doll is gorgeous, but I think she looks more like Helen Mirren than the British Monarch. However, it is an honest mistake because the actress did win an Oscar for portraying Her Royal Highness in the movie The Queen.
If you were hoping to buy the beautiful Barbie, you are out of luck. The $75 is sold out.
Helen Keller is a role model for the deaf and blind community and people who aren’t in it. She was the first person to earn a Bachelor’s degree with her disabilities. This was during a time when it was even difficult for women to go to college.
After she graduated, she became an outspoken person for people with disabilities, women’s rights, and against racial inequality.
Keller was an inspirational woman. So much so that Barbie is honoring her with a doll in their Inspiring Women series.
“My favorite part of the design process for the Inspiring Women series is the research,” Carlyle reveals. “Because of her achievement as the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, I wanted to capture that time in her life, imagining what she might have looked like and worn as a student at Radcliffe College in the very early 1900s. I found a few pictures of a young Helen during that time and combined that with research on women’s style during the Edwardian period.”
Keller is the 12th doll in the series. She joins an elite group of women in this category. They are Amelia Earhart, Billie Jean King, Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Sally Ride, Ella Fitzgerald, Maya Angelou, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Katherine Johnson, Frida Kahlo, and Florence Nightingale.
If you want to add Keller to your collection, the beautiful doll is available now for $29.99.
Have you ever wanted to stay in a Barbie™ Malibu Dreamhouse? Well now you can! AirBNB and Barbie teamed up to make our dreamhouse come true. For $60 per night, you can stay at home that is Barbie approved between October 27-29th.
It is being described as, “Located in the heart of Malibu, my Dreamhouse has three floors with ocean views and open spaces for friends and family to hang. My pool is the perfect place to cool off from the California sun, but I never travel without my waterslide, so I’ll be taking that with me. And whether you’re enjoying an outdoor meal, watching a movie in my personal cinema, or making s’mores under the stars, the best part is just being together.”
Heck for $60 a night, even I am thinking about doing it. Who is with me?
BTW I wonder if Ken is included! I guess if he was, it would cost a little more for that service.
Before Christina Applegate was playing with boys on Married…with Children, she was playing with Pose Me Pretty Barbie. How awwwwdorable was the 11-year-old in that 1983 commercial?
If you think that man buns are ugly on men, then you are going to think that they are even uglier on a plastic one. But that didn’t stop Mattle from giving one of their new Ken dolls that modern day hairdo.
Today, the toy company announced that on Good Morning America that they are introducing 15 new versions of their male Barbies featuring three different body types, seven different skin tones and nine different hairstyles.
No word how Barbie likes all of her new boyfriends, but you know that she likes the one the man bun the least. Only men with that hairstyle like it. Right David Beckham?
