{"id":93822,"date":"2016-11-15T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=93822"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:12:27","slug":"ashley-graham-barbie-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/ashley-graham-barbie-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"We Love That Ashley Graham&#8217;s Barbie Doesn&#8217;t Have This One Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Model, Ashley Graham,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/style-beauty\/fashion\/a8291938\/ashley-graham-barbie-doll\/\" target=\"_blank\">now has her own\u00a0Barbie<\/a>\u00a0and it&#8217;s an exact replica of her &#8212; curves\u00a0and all.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Mattel&#8217;s &#8220;Shero&#8221; collection, which includes Barbie versions of other influential women\u00a0like Gabby Douglas and Misty Copeland, Graham is enthused about the release of her Barbie as\u00a0it showcases a\u00a0body type that hasn&#8217;t\u00a0been represented as\u00a0much in mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s really exciting that Barbie, who is an iconic figure in America, is now evolving into what we\u2019re actually talking about today,&#8221; Graham\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fashionista.com\/2016\/11\/ashley-graham-barbie\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>Fashionista<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BM1iGKUA5lG\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thighs touching, round hips, arms and tummy!! Thank you @Mattel and @Barbie for immortalizing me into plastic! ??? #beautybeyondsize<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by A S H L E Y G R A H A M (@theashleygraham) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-11-15T15:50:40+00:00\">Nov 15, 2016 at 7:50am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Graham also made sure a<em>\u00a0<\/em>thigh gap wasn&#8217;t a feature on her Barbie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She had to have her thighs touch. No ands, ifs, or buts about it. And\u00a0I asked for cellulite but obviously plastic and cellulite don\u2019t go hand in hand,&#8221; Graham told\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/ashley-graham-gets-a-barbie-doll-made-her-honor-947059\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;It was important that the Barbie resembled me as much as possible. The thighs touching was one way to show young girls that it\u2019s okay for your thighs to touch, despite society saying that a \u2018thigh gap\u2019 is more beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though her life-like replica is definitely breaking some sociatal norms, Graham emphasizes the importance of young girls having role models like Barbie that look like them.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this doll? Weigh in on the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Model, Ashley Graham,\u00a0now has her own\u00a0Barbie\u00a0and it's an exact replica of her -- curves\u00a0and all. ...","author":1557554,"featured_media":93838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,271],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15122514\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-12.26.38-PM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15122514\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-12.26.38-PM.jpg","formated_date":"November 15, 2016","category_name":"Beauty","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113828\/beauty-1.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#b58ef9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}