American Girl dolls are frozen in time — literally. The newly-dubbed "Be Forever" historical characters are relics of the past, representing time periods like World War II, The Great Depression, and the Civil War. Plus, while we graduate high school, attend college, and move out, our American Girl dolls sit atop a shelf their entire lives in a dustier version of Toy Story. But what would happen if the American Girls grew up, too? This is the question Heather Dockray over at Mashable answers with "American Girl Dolls as Fully Grown, Human Adults." In the story, she speculates that Molly went off to attend Vassar, ditched her Harry Potter frames, and "started a Marxist comedy troupe." Addy became an early feminist, and Felicity married a "pushover state senator" who acted as her political mouthpiece because women couldn't hold office back in the 1790s.
While they're definitely entertaining, we can't totally get behind all of these predictions. Samantha would never have become a missionary in India! After Grandmary's tragic death, she would have inherited the mansion, turned it into a boarding school for orphaned girls, married a less alcoholic F. Scott Fitzgerald type, and pushed for colleges to go co-ed. And what happened to Kaya and Kit? Kit definitely would have become a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, or at least an editor of a local paper in Cincinnati. To find out what may have happened to your favorite dolls, read the full story here.
