When you want brutal honesty, just ask some kids, which is exactly what the good people of BuzzFeed did when Mattel announced that they would be launching Barbies with petite, tall, and curvy body types with customizable hair textures and skin tones. While some people, like curvy model Barbie Ferreira, were happy about the new options, others felt like it wouldn't make a difference. To find out if these new Barbies are making positive change, BuzzFeed asked kids to give their reviews of the new Barbie bodies.
"I don't know much about Barbie except she's, like, blonde," a brunette girl says in the opening of the video. The comment reaffirms that even kids who don't play with the doll believe Barbie only has one look.
"Oh, so they're like, not as tall. Yay, because I'm really short," the same girl says when she sees the new petite Barbie. Then another girl picks up the curvy Barbie, and shoots a big grin at the camera.
"I really, really like the curvy one, because some people don't look that much like Barbie," she says. A young black girl decides her favorite doll is the one who looks like her.
"It's an African-American Barbie doll, like me, and I love her hair. Her hair resembles my hair!" she exclaims. Amazing.
Watch the full video to see what other kids thought about Barbie's new bodies.
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