“Mattel estimated that 95 percent of girls aged three to eleven own at least one Barbie” (PM, SM, CC) From these young influential ages girls are conditioned to believe that looking like Barbie makes you beautiful. Therefore when they eventually get to the age after puberty where boys become interested in them and they become interested in boys, they have a mind set that they are supposed to be beautiful like Barbie. So they then begin thinking they are fat and unattractive and start asking others “Am I fat?” or “Does this make my butt look big?” If she feels as if she is unattractive or fat she then starts packing on make-up like a prostitute or skipping a meal or two ev

As a pop icon another thing Barbie is doing to young girls is promoting materialism. If you notice Barbie has always been quite the consumer and always has the latest fashion or fad as in shoes, dresses, t-shirts, pants, cell phones, cars and even houses. She’s always doing something that’s popular or has what’s popular in the real world. The young girl then begins to want to dress like Barbie in the latest expensive fashion or fad. Barbie is just more or less a miniature model advertising what’s cool and in style. If parents go out and buy everything their child wants because Barbie has it, then the child’s wants are going to get out of hand and become very expensive. The girl conforming to the standards of the pop culture along with the other girls seem the same, not having developing an independent self image but one similar to everyone else’s.

Barbie’s influence is definitely a negative one on the self-image of children. To young girls Barbie is a model of physical expectations, materialism, style and fashion. If they aren’t like Barbie they make them selves be like her as hard as they can even if it is unhealthy and destructive. Girls need to take a listen to the main course of Aqua’s song “Barbie Girl” where it says, “I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world, Life in plastic, it's fantastic” (A, BG

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