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Plus-Size Barbie Sparks Debate Over Body Image
"Plus-size" models (or any models above the super-skinny norm, for that matter) serve a dual purpose: They showcase plus-size clothing for a growing market... and they also provide women with a more diverse range of bodies to look up to. So if we have plus-size women modeling clothes, why not have plus-size Barbies? That's the question posed recently by Plus-Size-Modeling.com on Facebook, when the group posted an illustration of a plus-size Barbie-like doll
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Why does everything have to be one extreme or another? Neither of the Barbies are realistic to me, you don't have to have a waist the size of your neck, but that doesn't mean you have 3 extra chins either..