Multicultural Barbie. Barbie, a name that people all around the world know, is just a doll, but throughout the past 50 years she has become the icon of physical appearance and a luxurious lifestyle for young girls and women. In the 1950’s, Mattel, the company that worked with Ruth Handler to produce the doll, soon became the first to sell a Barbie’s negative impact [7,8], Barbie dolls have been criticized for providing young girls with a tangible physique-salient representation of unrealistic female body shapes. In fact, there are well-documented negative body image effects related to exposure to Barbie, including reduced Mattel has responded to these criticisms by introducing a range of Barbie dolls with different body types, skin tones, and hairstyles, reflecting the diversity of the real world. Barbie’s Influence on Pop Culture. Barbie’s influence extends beyond the toy industry. She has been featured in numerous movies, TV shows, and even video games. The short answer to this pertinent question is, yes! Fairy Tales surely influence the way we think of ourselves and everything around us. If the child stores the fairy tales in a category labelled 'Reality' they are going to think differently than a child who stores such tales in a category labelled 'Fiction'. The Overlooked Negative Effects of Barbie Dolls written to inform parents. The Overlooked Negative Effects of Barbie Dolls. Barbies are the most popular dolls in the world. Statistics show that 99% of 3-10 year-old girls in the United States own at least one Barbie doll (Halliwell 283). These dolls have features so widely known, that every girl Only 1 percent of young American girls aged 3 to 10 years old did not own Barbie dolls, showing its popularity among teenage girls (Rogers, 1999, as cited by Dittmar, et al., 2006 [1]). Since playing with toys is a large part of the young’s life, Barbie dolls play a vital role to the young girls. The potential influence of Barbie dolls on Abstract. This study experimentally tested the effects of playing with thin dolls on body image and food intake in 6- to 10-year-old Dutch girls ( N = 117). Girls were randomly assigned to play with a thin doll, an average-sized doll, or Legos in a no doll control condition. After 10 min, they participated in a taste-test and completed The seemingly harmless Barbie doll has been a leading competitor of the toy fashion doll industry for over fifty years. Making over $1.9 million in sales per year on these dolls alone, it's difficult to argue that Mattel, Inc., the company that owns these plastic queens, are far from establishing the ultimate toy empire; however, within the past few decades, Barbie has been falling short on “Barbie,” the movie, was the blockbuster hit of the summer, earning over $1.4 billion worldwide, and demonstrating that Barbie, the 64-year-old plastic doll, still holds an important place in Barbie dolls. A lot of kids have them. But new research has warned parents against buying the toys. A study published by the Body Image journal found that Barbie dolls projected an inappropriate RwSmE.