“My father battled alcoholism for most of his life,” she recalls. As a youngster, the dolls made her feel safe because often, especially at night, her home was filled with fighting and domestic violence. Not one toy has had as many iterations or gone through as complete an image overhaul as Barbie has.įor Cook, Barbie has always been a comfort. Once considered an anti-feminist doll peddling oppressive expectations of women, today’s Barbie has expanded her world to embrace the diversity of modern life. There was the “Math class is tough” 1992 Teen Talk Barbie, the 1963 babysitter Barbie, complete with diet book titled Don’t Eat, and the more recent drama when the 2010 sticker book featuring Computer Engineer Barbie showed her downloading a computer virus, ultimately having to seek help from the “boys.” The doll has had her fair share of controversy. My older sister Janet would have got the Barbie and I would have got Barbie’s best friend.” “I usually got a new doll then and it was out under the tree. “I would have been about four or five and it must have been Christmas,” she says. I feel like she’s an inspiration.”Ĭook’s first ever Barbie, which she received as a Christmas present, was actually a Midge doll, Barbie’s best friend. “She made girls aware that they could be anything they wanted to be if they put their mind to it. “I think she keeps up with the times,” says Cook, who is in her 60s. Lucy Cook, president of the Manitoba Dolls Club, has a special connection to Barbie.īarbara Millicent (Barbie) Roberts is quite the woman - and that’s why Lucy Cook has always loved her. In 1965, four years before Neil Armstrong, she “walked on the moon” and in February 2022, she went to space for real, when she visited the International Space Station (ISS) to tour a plant-growth facility with NASA astronauts. In her 64 years her hair has been coiffed into countless styles and shades, her figure shaped and reshaped into at least nine body types, in approximately 35 skin tones. A nurse, a robotics engineer, a video game developer, a ballerina, a veterinarian and even a NASCAR driver, to name just a few of the jobs she’s held. She’s been a pilot and an aerobics instructor.
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