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Ruth Handler created the Barbie doll, and it made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York City on the 9th of March 1959. Handler named the doll after her daughter Barbara, who was born on the 21st of May 1941.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, and her parents are George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin. The character appears in novels published by Random House in the 1960s and later in books published by Golden Books in 1999.
Mattel launched the Barbie Dream Gap Project in 2019 to raise awareness of the phenomenon where girls begin to doubt their own intelligence at age five. The initiative aims to address underrepresentation in careers requiring higher intelligence through dolls like Judge Barbie.
The original Barbie was sold for $3.00 in 1959, while a mint boxed Barbie from 1959 sold for $3552.50 on eBay in October 2004. A Barbie in Midnight Red from 1965 set a world record at auction of £9,000 sterling on the 26th of September 2006 at Christie's in London.
A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, which gives a height of 69 inches at 1/6 scale. Her estimated vital statistics are 39 inches chest, 18 inches waist, and 33 inches hips.
The live-action film adaptation of Barbie was released on the 21st of July 2023 by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States. Australian actress Margot Robbie portrayed the title character in the movie.