WKDQ - THE TRI-STATE'S COUNTRY STATION » Barbie http://wkdq.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:00:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Russians Have Made A Human Barbie [PHOTOS] http://wkdq.com/russians-have-made-a-human-barbie-photos/ http://wkdq.com/russians-have-made-a-human-barbie-photos/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 16:46:44 +0000 Baby Boy http://wkdq.com/?p=63986 Valeria Lukyanova, the Russian Barbie, has gone to painstaking lengths to make herself the human equivalent of the beloved children’s toy. Whether or not the Kremlin is involved in this idea has yet to be discovered.

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]]> http://wkdq.com/strangest-barbies-ever-made-photos/feed/ 0 Mattel Baby Boy Finds: Bald Barbies? http://wkdq.com/a-new-bald-barbie-for-little-girls-battling-cancer/ http://wkdq.com/a-new-bald-barbie-for-little-girls-battling-cancer/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:31 +0000 Baby Boy http://wkdq.com/?p=33694 Kaylee Rider is seven years-old and wears a scarf on her head because she is bald from battling cancer. The Austin, Texas second grader recently started a campaign to get Mattel to produce a cancer Barbie.

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]]> http://wkdq.com/barbie-gets-a-tatoo/feed/ 0 photo by Chesi - Fotos CC/flickr Lifesize Barbie Can Be A Lesson http://wkdq.com/lifesize-barbie-can-be-a-lesson/ http://wkdq.com/lifesize-barbie-can-be-a-lesson/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:08:47 +0000 Jon Prell http://wkdq.com/?p=4933 As a 16-year-old, Galia Slayen made a life-size Barbie out of wood, chicken wire, paper-mache and -- of course -- two big balloons as way to deal with her anorexia.

Now, four years later, Slayen is a sophomore at Hamilton College and is using the massive (but freakishly slim) doll she built to start a conversation about eating disorders and body image issues.

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ListUniverse.com

has come up with a list of people and things that NEVER existed yet influenced mankind. Here are a few....pretty cool!

  1. Santa Claus
  2. Barbie
  3. Robin Hood
  4. The Marlboro Man
  5. Rosie the Riveter

ListUniverse.com

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