The 'design flaw' - Barbie's legs are 50% longer than her arms, whereas the average woman's legs are only 20% longer than her arms meaning that if Barbie were real, the length of her legs in proportion to her torso would make her unable to walk and she'd be constantly falling on her face. Consequently, It has been estimated that only way a real Barbie could walk upright would be to walk on all fours, as her feet are so proportionately small that her chest would pull her continually forward onto her toes.
Second, if she were human, while crawling around, Barbie would need help looking around as her neck is twice as long as the average human's which would make it impossible to hold up her head.
Thirdly, Barbie weighs about 45.8 kg and is 213cm in height, meaning she would have a Body Mass Index of 10 and would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate or have children, if she wanted them.
Lastly, Barbie's body would have room for only half of a liver and only a few centimetres of intestines, as opposed to the usual 7.9 metres. The result: chronic diarrhoea and death from malabsorption & malnutrition. In case anyone wants to look like a Barbie, a healthy woman would need to add 61 cm to her height, subtract 15 cm from her waist, add 13 cm to her chest, and 8 to her neck length. As the recently deceased Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick once told us - there are 3 billion women on the planet who don't look like Barbie; only 8 women come close.
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oh. poor barbie. the most moving posts i've ever read about barbie (for that matter the only posts, aside from yours) are on poppalina's site. but they are very moving indeed.
http://poppalina.typepad.com/
my_weblog/
i thought they "fattened" barbie up, after realising yes, a "real life" human with those stats would be anorexic, damn you mean they didn't thicken her waist after all? No fair..
hahahaha
Funny (sorry Meli!) and so apt. Can you do another one about Bratz?
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