Should Mattel Create a Bald Barbie Doll?
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2012/01/13 22:00:00
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Most little girls go through a phase where they play with Barbie dolls. And given that she's had every possible career, isn't it time for Barbie to reach out to kids with cancer? A Facebook movement is under way to create a "Bald Barbie" for young girls going through chemotherapy or suffering from other hair loss conditions, the "Today" show reports.
According to the Facebook page, called Beautiful and Bald Barbie!: "We would like to see a Beautiful and Bald Barbie made to help young girls who suffer from hair loss due to cancer treatments, Alopecia or Trichotillomania." The page, which went up in late December, had 98,588 "likes" as of Friday.
"My daughter is battling leukemia right now and she's been going through chemotherapy for the last two years," Beckie Sypin, one of the mothers behind the campaign, told the "Today" show. "We think [a bald Barbie] would be therapeutic and I think it would help baldness become more quote unquote normal."
Mattel issued a statement Thursday: "Mattel appreciates and respects the passion that has been built up for the request for a bald Barbie doll. As you might imagine, we receive hundreds of passionate requests for various dolls to be added to our collection. We take all of them seriously and are constantly exploring new and different dolls to be added to our line." Hmm ... sounds kind of noncommittal. Do you think Mattel should create a Bald Barbie?
According to the Facebook page, called Beautiful and Bald Barbie!: "We would like to see a Beautiful and Bald Barbie made to help young girls who suffer from hair loss due to cancer treatments, Alopecia or Trichotillomania." The page, which went up in late December, had 98,588 "likes" as of Friday.
"My daughter is battling leukemia right now and she's been going through chemotherapy for the last two years," Beckie Sypin, one of the mothers behind the campaign, told the "Today" show. "We think [a bald Barbie] would be therapeutic and I think it would help baldness become more quote unquote normal."
Mattel issued a statement Thursday: "Mattel appreciates and respects the passion that has been built up for the request for a bald Barbie doll. As you might imagine, we receive hundreds of passionate requests for various dolls to be added to our collection. We take all of them seriously and are constantly exploring new and different dolls to be added to our line." Hmm ... sounds kind of noncommittal. Do you think Mattel should create a Bald Barbie?
Top Opinion
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Nicole 2012/01/13 21:55:39No
+25Its a little depressing. I mean a kid has cancer and their parents give them a bald barbie? No. Parents will probably get them normal barbies to let their kids feel as normal as possible. I mean you get a sick barbie isn't that rubbing it in that the poor kid has cancer? Idk i just know the last thing i would want if i had cancer would be a bald barbie. I mean im sick, my barbie's sick, is there any hope? Its kinda depressing...
you might as well sell a doll with removable hair.
plus little girls more times than now will not want to play with a bald doll.
You and your family are in my prayers x
Certainly a better barbie than Nicki Minaj or the Kardashians.
Giving a kid with cancer a bald, anorexic doll is nuts.