Earlier this year, artist Nickolay Lamm announced a crowdfunding project to create a new type of Barbie called the La mmily doll. The toy, which will finally be ready to ship at the end of this month, ...

The Lammilly doll, a more realistic version of the Barbie, is challenging body image ideals perpetuated by the children’s toy industry. Proportioned like an average American woman, the doll comes with ...

Nov 20, 2014, 1:55pm CST Updated: Nov 21, 2014, 9:28am CST screenshot from a Washington Post video: http://wapo.st/1xSsw6W The Washington Post asked for children's ...

Nickolay Lamm’s “normal” Barbie alongside the standard-issue doll (via nickolaylamm.com) But lest we forget, the fact of Barbie’s ridiculous proportions is not news. It’s long been assumed that the ...

Ten years ago Dove’s “Real Beauty” ad campaign debuted in Canada and quickly spread around the world, a battle-cry against the prevailing female body image ideal: always young, impossibly thin, and ...

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