I used to love collecting Barbies when I was younger, but my girls really didn't play with them much.  Do you know much about their history?
I like Barbie dolls too. I know the first Barbie was sold in 1959.
Wow, she's aging well then I would say!  
LOL. Ruth Handler got her inspiration from a German doll.
Oh, is that the person that created Barbie?
Barbie
Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
Barbie is the figurehead of a brand of Mattel dolls and accessories, including other family members and collectible dolls. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for over fifty years, and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits, often involving parodies of the
said while her three brothers liked baseball, Miriam preferred Barbie dolls. Miriam says strangers assumed she was a girl:
They used to come to my mother and say, "Oh you have a beautiful daughter," and my mother used to say "That's my son," and I used to get angry. And I have always been attracted to men. When I was 11 I met someone who's gay and start talking to me about hormones, which I got very interested in.
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