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Barbie’s new body

My SD Moms January 28, 2016

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(CNN)Girls and women don’t come in one shape, and now, finally, Barbie won’t either.xFisem1I (400x400)

Now, in addition to the original Barbie — impossibly slender and often parodied — the doll will come in tall, petite and curvy varieties.

Mattel announced the new line Thursday on its website and in a Time magazine article.

“We have to let girls know it doesn’t matter what shape you come in, that anything is possible,” Tania Missad, director of consumer insights for the doll line, said in a video on the Barbie brand website.

According to Mattel, Barbie will now come in four body types and seven skin tones, with 22 eye colors and 24 hairstyles.

The move comes a year after Mattel introduced Barbies with moveable ankles that would allow the dolls to wear flat shoes for the first time.

In June, Mattel broadened the number of skin tones, eye colors and hair styles available for the dolls, which first appeared on store shelves in 1959.

Despite such changes, Mattel has continued to face criticism over the doll’s unrealistic proportions and concerns that Barbie reinforced a single, virtually impossible standard of beauty for girls to try to meet.

Thursday’s broadening of the line to include a more representative set of body types met with approval on social media.

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