“Normal Barbie” Has Realistic 19-Year-Old Body Shape With Acne, Bruises And Stretch Marks
The iconic Barbie doll has received a lot of criticism for teaching kids to aspire to unrealistic body types, so digital artist and designer Nickolay Lamm decided to create a “normal barbie” named Lammily. This realistic doll has the body proportions of a 19-year-old girl and can have tattoos, warts, acne, stretch marks, and other realistic skin flaws.
A sticker pack that comes with the real-image doll allows kids to apply all the sorts of skin imperfections that people have, teaching kids that they don’t have to aspire to or value the unrealistic body images promoted by Barbie or Ken dolls. And, judging by the reactions of the 2nd-graders Lamm showed his doll to, the message has been received with open arms!
Lamm told HuffPost that he “wanted to show that average is beautiful and that we shouldn’t compare ourselves to unrealistic beauty standards. And I feel Barbie kind of symbolizes that.”
Read on for a few of Lamm’s answers to Bored Panda’s questions!
More info: lamily.com | nickolaylamm.com (h/t: huffpost)
“Normal Barbie” has the average body shape of a 19-year-old girl
“I personally have nothing against Barbie and feel she’s a great toy,” Nickolay Lamm told Bored Panda. “I’m just trying to add diversity to dolls for girls”
Just like a real girl, she can get acne, bruises, and other body marks, all included in Lammily’s sticker pack
“A lot of dolls look like supermodels. There’s nothing wrong with looking like a supermodel, but I feel if some dolls were more like real girls, then it may send the message that it’s okay to look like a typical person as well”
Lammily with some stretch mark stickers on her belly
“It’s okay to look like a supermodel and it’s okay to look like a typical person”
“Normal Barbie” with a cellulite sticker on her leg
“Kids like it, saying she’s just like a real person. Of course, kids like Barbie as well and that’s how it should be. And that’s great”
Lammily loves sports, but she can get bruised just like we do
“Lammily is the name of the company – soon there will be a passport feature on Lammily.com so you can name the doll what you want”
This doll encourages young girls to love their bodies
Lammily Barbie with freckle stickers on her cheeks
She has flexible limbs, realistic fingers and toes, and free-standing feet, allowing kids to involve her in sports that they couldn’t involve the classic Barbie doll in
Here she is with tattoo stickers
“Normal Barbie” with her arm in a cast – yes, she can get hurt too!
Lammily blushes when she’s been caught eating all the cookies
A pack of Lammily Marks
Compare the traditional Barbie doll on the left to Lamm’s first realistically proportioned doll model on the right
Watch the beautiful reactions of 2nd-graders meeting Lammily for the first time:
Thank you, Nickolay Lamm, for talking to Bored Panda about your wonderful product celebrating natural beauty. We’re excited to see what you’ll think of next!
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I love it. I think little girls would have more fun playing with it especially because of the accessories/stickers that come w/it.
I love the idea. As someone who collects barbie I think its great. I have the tattoo art dolls, but this is better.
Nice, but I am somewhat offended that freckles come in a pack of "flaws"-stickers.
I'm offended that you think any of those things are flaws ._. They are all things that bodies can have.
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I sure do wish I had had a freckle-faced, buck toothed 90lb weakling GI Joe with a sunburn decal when I was a kid.
I sure wish I had a buck-toothed 90lb weakling GI Joe with a perpetual sunburn when I was a kid. Yeah, that would have been awesome.
Fantastic!:-) This doll will be more close to the children, since they can share more with them, recognize themselves in them. Finally! :-)
OMG....they finally realized that no one really looks like a Barbie!!!!!
thank god! my prayers have been answered!! all i want is girls to love them self's!
Children are looking up to barbie thinking they should be perfect like she is. Forgetting they already are
I love the concept but the stickers seem a little too cartoonish and not as realistic.
They don't need to be that realistic. It's better to spice our lives with a littlw bit of humour, actually. But that's just my own opinion.
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I think this is so beautiful! healthy and obvious! I will be buing a Lammily doll for my son and my niece.
I love it! This is a brilliant idea. I've collected a lot of Barbie dolls already so now I want this one!
Weihnachten kommt bald! Was schenkt man einem Kind, das schon eine Schminkpuppe, eine Frisierpuppe und 30 Barbies hat? Eine Pickelbarbie!
This is something people need to see; Barbie represents unrealistic body standards which actually made me as a kid feel like I was unfit to be seen in public until I actually considered a healthy body standard. Let's all be like Barbie! "It's fantastic in a world of plastic!" Geez 🙄
I want one for me too. And I want her friends in various shapes as well. One that looks like me, for example. Tall height, large shoulders, big boobs, long and slim neck, hourglass figure but with a bit of fat and cellulite on upper legs and a slightly oversized a*s, due to the way of my fat accumulation.
Absolutely ridiculous. Since when was being 'fit' and 'attractive' something we shouldn't aspire to be?
I'm an artist, and can assure you, Barbie's proportions are unrealistic. Lammily, is fit with a flat tummy, and is realistic.
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I just want to point out that Barbie is a model. JUST SAYING. Don't hate me. Barbie=Childhood
Ah, I don't personally have a problem with these things, hence the brackets around the word flaws.
i thik its innapropiate to give some of those stickers to kids caz......its inapropiate welli like the idea
Why don't we use the word flaw and let the all the kids believe all these stickers make us ugly. Total idiots
I don't like the tattoos. How's it OK to encourage children to disfigure their skin, which they would regret later?
The sticker pack actually says that they are 'temporary tattoos'
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I don't like the tattoos. How's it OK to encourage children to disfigure their skin, which they would regret later?
Are you kidding me? Ya might as well include baby bump sticker pack; as well as self cutting wrist scars. Trashing your body is "normal" BS
Huh? Tattoos (if that is what you are talking about) and self-harm are completely different things.
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So let's teach our kids that it's great to cover up your natural beautiful body with tattoos? And let's add some needle tracks, too!
I just can't go anywhere with 'Barbie' acne or not..they are, and always were, just creepy dolls ...that ship has sailed...
This is going to backfire. It is going to have girls focusing on pimples and stretchmarks etc. The figure is a good movement. No to "flaws".
They are only flaws if you (or the user) looks at them as such.
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I love it. I think little girls would have more fun playing with it especially because of the accessories/stickers that come w/it.
I love the idea. As someone who collects barbie I think its great. I have the tattoo art dolls, but this is better.
Nice, but I am somewhat offended that freckles come in a pack of "flaws"-stickers.
I'm offended that you think any of those things are flaws ._. They are all things that bodies can have.
Load More Replies... I sure do wish I had had a freckle-faced, buck toothed 90lb weakling GI Joe with a sunburn decal when I was a kid.
I sure wish I had a buck-toothed 90lb weakling GI Joe with a perpetual sunburn when I was a kid. Yeah, that would have been awesome.
Fantastic!:-) This doll will be more close to the children, since they can share more with them, recognize themselves in them. Finally! :-)
OMG....they finally realized that no one really looks like a Barbie!!!!!
thank god! my prayers have been answered!! all i want is girls to love them self's!
Children are looking up to barbie thinking they should be perfect like she is. Forgetting they already are
I love the concept but the stickers seem a little too cartoonish and not as realistic.
They don't need to be that realistic. It's better to spice our lives with a littlw bit of humour, actually. But that's just my own opinion.
Load More Replies... I think this is so beautiful! healthy and obvious! I will be buing a Lammily doll for my son and my niece.
I love it! This is a brilliant idea. I've collected a lot of Barbie dolls already so now I want this one!
Weihnachten kommt bald! Was schenkt man einem Kind, das schon eine Schminkpuppe, eine Frisierpuppe und 30 Barbies hat? Eine Pickelbarbie!
This is something people need to see; Barbie represents unrealistic body standards which actually made me as a kid feel like I was unfit to be seen in public until I actually considered a healthy body standard. Let's all be like Barbie! "It's fantastic in a world of plastic!" Geez 🙄
I want one for me too. And I want her friends in various shapes as well. One that looks like me, for example. Tall height, large shoulders, big boobs, long and slim neck, hourglass figure but with a bit of fat and cellulite on upper legs and a slightly oversized a*s, due to the way of my fat accumulation.
Absolutely ridiculous. Since when was being 'fit' and 'attractive' something we shouldn't aspire to be?
I'm an artist, and can assure you, Barbie's proportions are unrealistic. Lammily, is fit with a flat tummy, and is realistic.
Load More Replies... I just want to point out that Barbie is a model. JUST SAYING. Don't hate me. Barbie=Childhood
Ah, I don't personally have a problem with these things, hence the brackets around the word flaws.
i thik its innapropiate to give some of those stickers to kids caz......its inapropiate welli like the idea
Why don't we use the word flaw and let the all the kids believe all these stickers make us ugly. Total idiots
I don't like the tattoos. How's it OK to encourage children to disfigure their skin, which they would regret later?
The sticker pack actually says that they are 'temporary tattoos'
Load More Replies... I don't like the tattoos. How's it OK to encourage children to disfigure their skin, which they would regret later?
Are you kidding me? Ya might as well include baby bump sticker pack; as well as self cutting wrist scars. Trashing your body is "normal" BS
Huh? Tattoos (if that is what you are talking about) and self-harm are completely different things.
Load More Replies... So let's teach our kids that it's great to cover up your natural beautiful body with tattoos? And let's add some needle tracks, too!
I just can't go anywhere with 'Barbie' acne or not..they are, and always were, just creepy dolls ...that ship has sailed...
This is going to backfire. It is going to have girls focusing on pimples and stretchmarks etc. The figure is a good movement. No to "flaws".
They are only flaws if you (or the user) looks at them as such.
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