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Barbie and Ken get a reality check after 30 years
She's the blonde bombshell and he's her square-jawed sidekick.
Summary
She's the blonde bombshell and he's her square-jawed sidekick. But nearly 70 years after the impossibly perfect Barbie and Ken made their debut, a new study from Adelaide University and UNSW Sydney shows the iconic pair are finally looking a little more like the rest of us. Three decades after a landmark Australian study revealed Barbie and Ken's body proportions were almost unattainable in real life, researchers have revisited the 1996 study and found that Barbie and Ken have undergone a remarkable transformation.
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