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so rather young forever beautiful bobby, so loaned, so perfectly styled, so super slim with the longest legs in the world. no one looks like a no dog has it been made to korea and so many jobs even in traditionally male ones. c then this, a companion can really with dimensions, but somehow ways to, to aside probably wouldn't be bobby if she was who is a head to put time diversity of course the,
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[000:00:00;00] the hi, my name is destiny sir. i live in west hollywood, california. i am a barbie influence, sir. barbie is an icon that's just adult for kids. so many bar b as a great role model, inspiration, lifestyle, and then i to do it. maybe i could live without her, but with bar v my life history, lamb times better. bobby sends a fence for life between adults and then there's something in her body. she
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owns the world's largest collection and is even in the guinness book of records. $18500.00 spanning the decades. the disorder of native knows the history of the long legged, long, black know of the she's been passionate about bobby, since childhood, to download 5 scheme to model mist affairs as of focusing on flexible, if i used to play with her all the time is a child because i'm, we only want to solve these and that's how it all started. whole school, then i packed it all away and later on kept it from my door, substituting but she didn't want to it. and then i realized that she's such a reflection of her time, and that's when i started to buy a replacement popular ones that were broken. the special thing about bobby was that she was actually a dress up doing like a paper dress up, told back then with the 5th and then the 3 dimensional. it's way up and she'll forget that wasn't that much money to buy a new outfit, but it wasn't, let's throw away society. i would say we remove sustainable back then. then we all
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today to move forward to things were altered and posted on and fixed by how and, and that also worked very well with bobby's being hired for the bobby close of sales. what are the. ready ready my 5, the history of bobby goes back to the 1950s fairly on the market, but she was over the best seller for little girls hero had been born the 1st influencer at all the gadget down the handler, bobby's creation. it's the story of a successful business woman. good ways. first things 1st it will began in sunny california. ruth was from a polish jewish immigrant family and grew up with, you know,
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and siblings. in high school, she met eliot to become a product design into a husband and business partner. loose was clever and vicious. with l e s and the mutual friend, she found the maternal company, the 1st product of wouldn't picture frames and old houses. fruit was grace inside, the company goes quickly and soon the handle of family could afford expensive vacations to you. in 1956, they went to the sun. ready they had to have sponsors and unusual toil in the shop windows. ruth was electrified. she never seen anything like it. a dog. beautiful grow, not with its own style. she media even has the potential and bullshit. ruth was a toy designer, a toy marketer. she had a daughter named barbara. she didn't like the options that her daughter had in
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terms of dogs. they were baby dolls for nurturing play. and ruth wanted more options, the english legs to sleep with the siege twice. that's literally a product from the german tabloid build with a girl. and she punched lines. lily was the star of the papers daily cartoon. the she was sassy, sexy, and confident. the jews acted to click. she was sitting with lily should hit the jackpot of the toy industry the magic of lots different tiers. i see it. ruth handler was clearly progressive for her time. she
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saw this doll in the shop window and thought i'd put, that's what i want to make on the doctor. so she said to us who implemented her business idea and brought adult to market because that's tough. she said, every little girl needs adults project herself into her dreams for the future to come effects and then time and so bobby was res handler borrowed the name from his own door to barbara. she worked fees received with designers and fashion professionals on the new model whose me from a stock bodies would not be as simple. so bobby was to have a lice, a job in dreams, funds for the the good side of the month, which is what i think it was very progressive for the time. if you really look at the context in which the stall came to market and i hadn't thought to after all, it was the 1st adult dall hook before that little girl's only ever played with baby dolls. and that was somehow preparing them for
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a mother role. the football guys in for the more trouble to tune. barbie was the 1st all that had its own life did its own thing and could be whatever the child wanted. the board hobby was launched as a test and was presented at the toy fe usa on march 9th. she was an instant his sold out so immediately because of the 1st year of the 300000 bobbies was sold to handle is good of getting the message across. and within a few years, mattel's become a well established to make up the, the international toy say in noon that this is where decisions have made them the toys of the future. with
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a numerous sales potential. children's toys that never go out of fashion, thoughts, they always have to be reinvented. battelle has had one of the largest stands he, if he is the bobby jesus is now infinity. the stance got involved in the starlight fairy barbie. a hair do from barbie, of swan lake top barbie, mermaid hobbies, and then a couple of normal classic therapies. so they were good at moving with the times. and of course the so understood the diversity movements use only visited steve. i'm standing in front of our fashion east of line, which is the most diverse style line in the world. we are big believers in the expression. if you can see it, you can be at. we celebrate the fact that barbie's had over 250 careers. she can do anything. that means you can do anything as a, as a child when you grow up. so, really proud of who way the brand is representing such positive role models for
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girls. mattel's has done a lot to bring bobby's ideals to the world. the company's skillfully combined business marketing and the founders course of feed melanie home. every year, the company owners, women, without standing careers, not be as an empowerment and box it up to bobby. the ear of old white means dominance. and to decades ago, she has succeeded nearly every industry the south bobbies this year. i'm a gun to the science, bobbies. she's the celebrity jane. good m this, the model here long before she's a scientist to spend 10 life researching how similar age. so to us. awesome. how well we related from how the apes live. she's a role model for you and you can play the reset, you not review. she's really changed how we do a lot of the other role model,
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of course. and it's really very important. what dental is the extra notice of him to him. i'll say women who explore space out of chrome, samantha christopher actually is the role model here. and she herself, is an astronaut. she's now come on to the mass just so cool to work as a go i to can dream of being in space. i'm doing research that even though the question or who can be an astronaut, still throws up the biggest gender gap today. my goal is to 56 years old. when they drew as dental, they dro man and not women. and i think this toy can change that light ballast and not come. there's one thing you can't accuse bobby else. despite the beauty in the 1950s, she's never been that use siri or typical house wife. right from the start. bobby has been a working moment. national surgeon, no job is beyond the fact that she's always freshly coiffed and super slim in
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vehicle of to as i to have money. because as pooka siever, because on the one hand you have this progressiveness even of the careers, the 1st adult dogs, the but on the other. this beauty ideal that barbie and bodies which is completely unrealistic and can also have negative effects on little girls. i think it was her blonde hair that did it for me. me. as a child, i wanted to be blonde for a very, very long time. and i beg to my mother to let me die, my hair, blonde. even though i was going, i don't know, 6 or 7 years old, and i think that had something to do with barbie's to tune the she was the absolute ideal for me. the naturally blog, the beauty idealism, 19 fifties bloomed, meant angelic, virtuous and sexy. the typical marilyn monroe snap nose
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and cinched waste. the perfect cloak been mentioned when they'll say yes, i want to be like my bobby. i don't think most parents pick up on it and say, oh, that's a problem. and we have to think about it. talk about what it means instead on a totally down played on that as well as it helps the 1st no. the 1st boundaries and the 1st ideas of what a body should look like. it was a not for those will meet bobby using the tool and the searching is sick because he's living her life to the front of the that was the origin as to bobby dole was off to rule the caricature. and that's why bobby had these loan exaggerated legs, and that looked fine. but actually i always thought of as a dress makers don't understand the loan legs look good for creating a cliff. it's very important that you can play with a toy and back in 59 when the 1st of all became on to the market. it was
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fashionable to way high pumps. so that's why bobby stands on her tip toes of think, sage before steve. yeah, how much remind these of it in this case was a bit know we have the 1st tough of the sixty's for can you can see that the dresses are most the cost of of the name kind of the microsoft like off can either sniffing yeah, it is sick i lie, no, was totally in the pony tail. the puffy has dialed on. these are the typical looks that people had at the time. that's how i talked to the how much wind haga todd, the ever changing bobbie world. logical and economic. who can sit between adults and is not only an x the shouldn't suit the collective. she's also a to doctor because bobby is now valuable as
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a collector's item. this is a bubble cut from the early sixty's verse, figuring out very common that the little thing goes missing. perhaps because it's separate and also got quotes and the head of clothing or children not to chew on it the colon. we have to wait until it boils between the 2 of us, quotes, toys of the to be used to them on. and i think it's really nice to give these aging toys on a new lease on life most on clean bill repairs come in. so regularly that i actually have something to do every day, the collect to the always bringing the fines to the fast. i also get small possible send to me to make it worthwhile to spend on
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the full on furnace escalade. so i stopped by just coming out the had was then as close i have to take another look here. okay, this is one with the pods and there are some with a policy and some without surprise, the head is always waved. and so actually the system of the one to find you have to make sure to keep that direction is tend to push pull by behind the reception for britain's top community model, whose professional name is tweaking the yes, at the very beginning, we only have to dolan fashion a follow the latest fashions closely, and the 1st to liberty told was tweaky. that was the very 1st one and she was very
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slim and she had her own special wardrobe. the, the celebrity bobby was born. those based on real life model. it's at old role models to go we noticed that in 2021, women made up only 15.5 percent of workers in the stem sector in germany, which is a real shame. and that's why we at barbie, have made it our mission to show young girls in particular more female role models in this area from african countries, even as a child, i couldn't get enough of my grandfather see firing stories like we've not done that when i grew up, i wanted to be on the wall to being a pirate wasn't an option. so my office myself was plan b. i didn't realize at the time, let's explore as pirates and st. louis, what actually ways man move on
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the yeah, the, the 5 when it cost this is our $1.00 of a kind barbie which we give to special women as a sign that it's so important to be a role model, especially for young girls on have fun with your little many me, of course theme is to give young girls great role models, which in 24 we're acting up with nice being involved in the dream that project quite a while. now, in the beginning i was reluctant because i thought my town plastic toys marine research no way. then the objectification of women physically and security. that's a no go to say i speak to other women who would take the against women being defined by abilities. and they say dream gap is a good project,
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go for it. so to sum up, you could say there were big problems and small problems. and one of the world's biggest problems as the so many goals grow up without access, not just toys, but also to dream for an offer. the 3 you in science, fashion, sport, so politics, bobby knows what she wants is about being daring enough to do anything. this thing a further informative exciting champion is a bobby ambassador today. i had an accident in 2018 since then. i've been a paraplegic. it was the way i dealt with the accidents during that. even if you've had rotten luck, you don't have to sit at home and get depressed. you can still enjoy life stuff. that's why i got to bobby's a female role model of what i always say. what we comp senior becomes aspire to toys and parenting a. so influential and it's important to include diversity from the very beginning.
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the bobby's world expands as social changes become apparent. the keywords today, diversity and inclusion. in 2023 bobby wants to go with down syndrome. so right, so, so the ball b, i was like what the rounds say lie, bill was to the drivers go to is pretty. so they say is profit, allow me a talk paper like what the children have to say about diversity the to sorry, i think it's actually quite good to them so that other goals he played with bobby,
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none. but there are other people who don't like them and look a bit different. but this is not a bad thing or just as i run the slow loves position. so i think it was good that more of being made now just because that's not my is if you leave someone out, someone who called them names are just because the different doom of the toda fanatic on. so things are not in every person can be the same as the depression. okay. and it would be, we're just, everybody was the same class. the that's the problem is that's been the, it's the, the body put, the problem is weren't even though we now have these bobby dulls and wheelchairs with skin disorders and proceeds. they use um it will take a long time to catch on because it will be
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a very long time before the same number of fees. those are in house health decided lets me some. yeah my, i think what fascinated me most about her was that i could dress her whatever way i wanted the stick once she had this really, really long dress and i'll pick them up, but it was removable when i dressed her in a short skirt. i think i'm on and in general, what fascinated me so much about the whole barbie universe was simply that i could do anything i wanted to succeed. i could to shape it as i pleased to you. i could travel with her so to speak, to wherever i wanted. and i think that's what i like the modem. i can find that she and i could sort of choose it ourselves, tables. ok, turn the way that the best for the july ever. you decided to take as can bring 5. be no, no you force me to take you campaign. the only decision i have actively made for
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this for the july to get star spangled hammer. uh huh. can we go home early like now? i get up, skipper. sometimes you gotta do stuff, you don't like in order to make people think you're a ne sister. i don't care about looking nice. yeah, i got that from your out. the times them. and i'm mickey. and a lot of you guys have been asking us how we make a body set, so we're going to show you today so that we may demo it says, yeah, sam and mickey bobby love us from australia, says 2010, the 2 foot civilians through z as to the directors of short stopped motion phillips, satirical and pointed. bobby, is always the boss personally, i guess growing up from me. she was every thing she would be hitting me have play. yeah. in imagination, whenever i wanted to do whatever i wanted to be,
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i could be that 3 body. i could make her be a wonderful house maker. i could make a be up. i'll wake up heroin and fight cry. it was so limitless. what you could do with her, what you could imagine with that she could feel entire days, weeks was play and you'd navigate for it because there was, there was always some different scenario. you could imagine you could build some other well, but you could, you could, you know, enter into it to the concept is clear that children create their own adult who become the directors of their individual fantasies. play up the dream force here at the f one and try to focus on it was only supposed to be addressed up to upsize of him and then the whole thing develop. so you could do role plays when you took the adult with you everywhere. and you can act out stories with her and you could create these worlds
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with equipment and excessive raises. well, that was also something special. so most desirable. so bobby, is always up to date. but what is the changes in society don't quite suit to back to the 19 sixty's. a new movement for women's liberation is launched. and once again, protesters take to this me to support their demands for total freedom, economically, politically, socially, feminism and bobby being independent whose grace, the what was always told about my body, my choice. in 6, he was perfect. why change it? correct? yes. that's what a stick of waste. absolutely not. be sure, if we think should stay as it was, the question was the body trademark
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is she was fully in step with the times. the 1960s to seventies the eighty's communities, good bell bottoms over the account. states that have boarding the shipments remain constant extra, extra, extra smoke the criticism got loud. suddenly bobby was b, a p to me is actually on the phone to see what could be done. bobby needs it. community. they'll say, oh scott, the certainly bobby, for, for those files. of course the upside is there. was there any develop the don't? and that was such a big success. so then they produced all the cactus to, to keep all the company. lots of fun to floss is a friend of skip of get a 100 in here. this is skipping here. it's bobby's system. the p g m p j and kristi, for example, all also friends was what i get just on hired. these are so those of their role is because bobby doesn't have children being a funding and cuisine and she has the,
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the girlfriend on the cousins or siblings see kind of quincy colored francy came on to the moccasin. 1967, mattel's 1st black though she was mattel's response to the civil rights movement. the struggle against re system was increasingly visible on the streets, equal rights through the social shift didn't go unnoticed. mattel's fancy was a black version of occasion, front seat made with the same mold, the originally black head of the use a hey, awesome, oxidized them 10, great many consider the 1st was not front. so yes, hold rather tall, named black bobbie, which came out in 1990 diversity for business
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3 can be it's all one dimensional thing of course metabolism business. so how can we sell even more those ones at the same time i create representation for all the bipolar children in the country line, who wouldn't tell identifying with a white the student if it's young, couldn't the today, black representation in the body will is much broad black bodies, physical traits have also changed, distinguishing them from white bobbies, the quality variations, we're going to choose 10 bobbies, appearance and cultural characteristics, became more visible in los angeles than you probably. so types of adults are designed and produced by hand using 3 d
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technology. everything is still made of plastic, but 90 percent of it is recycled plastic. as mattel's repeatedly emphasizes, the pro has long found the place in bobby's hey stall collection. we just do it here this way, this, this is. this is how we've done it for so long, and it's like how we create like can create each one is just these machines are so amazing the, it's the end of the development of bobby variations. the mental relies on today the very 1st bobby remains present. the original barbie is an important part of our history and it's still a continuing part of the line. but today there are over a 175 different types of barbies. so we're going to continue to evolve. we're going to continue to make sure that we're reflecting the world,
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the kids around them. religion had never d, bobby's theme bidding 2018. it was time mattel's launch the 1st bobby with the head scuff visa fits. how is that created to you before that? fine osh, it's from my julia, all right, that i can see the slides over the years. bar the a as the com was address, of course is as being is symbol of the icon. you tag version for media. so does all of that to, including, i don't know what i really like about the wireless fun tyneesa adam closer project to job a combination of his job and bobby tonight, julian wants to expands about the gene of this with muslim designs. and she posts a creation. so instagram,
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what's the approximate quote on my tongue from before? that is a way to job for the nice is project is controversial. aim is clear to counter pritchett us and to empower most of those who way hit scott's. yeah. different kind of guy, right? because all the around the world the yo is just the mice. me. how you to be easy. 5, be done with this. exactly. let me know that i was thinking of noah's by his fist in what these people watched a job. and one day i'm going to jump 48 social media. but before yes, i saw an error on the screen on my adult us. you know,
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what about the houses? saw it as a software inspiration i came across, but the want to know when i was familiar with the small social media prior, be the new york go by, you know, put the impression that things like that. so now when i go to find me to bobby the influence, so what's in my bag? never leave the house without this. wow. vantage data data? oh, i was wondering where that went. got to protect your skin. com. this will match my shoes. height. as of social media, the looking to do for you on social media, she acts like a real influenza or an extension comes across as a real person, even though you know it's adult. and i think it works very well because many people still have this connection to her from their childhood. so, and also this,
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you know, set out, you know, is the most likely i, so you've probably heard me say this before, but i really try to do my best to live a sustainable lifestyle. and one of the best ways to do this is by helping out animals and other little creatures that might be struggling to live their best lives because of the disappearing habitat which brings me to 2 days project. do you know what this is? it's of the hotel. i feel bad if you didn't know that i didn't know and i seen them all around my neighborhood a be a hotel is a home for solitary bees like mason b. so it's a safe place for them to lay their eggs and store their pollen. i've done enough that the most monitors from jefferson off. on the other hand, i think that i think you also have to be a bit careful because i think it has a different effect on children who still perceive everything very differently. you know, how do i mean when i see it now? i see i can understand it and reflect on it for but back then as an absolute barbie fan, if i've seen barbie on tick tock or bar b as a blogger on youtube, a few,
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i think i might have lost touch with it a bit. it had to some fission, a slice them to send him with how much of her is the toy bosses? his no. what's the dos equal of us? depends what? 3 a life. what's reality here? i just know if the vanity tips for the abbey was never pregnant, never married, but can, was, was hopeful most from his thoughts about the teutonic relationship. so there was never any tool could fix special. couple sexy a sexual view somehow. and somehow i just wasn't into him from of that sounds brash but i only had eyes for barbie. i thought for me, i just thought you was so cool. and for me it was like, yeah, he exists. but i'm not that into him. i thought she was cool and i wanted all the dolls and variations for them for you. um they said some i am on the one hand i see that you can is actually just, well, it's another part of bobby's nice. one from 10 is like the house,
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like because and then this can to without candidates somehow not complete worse than the barbie's, the same as teenage fashion model. dog diamond. tell them that this was to be a special night then it happened. she met ken and somehow she knew that she and can would be going get it and that's can really sweet, really boring. literally sporting that's 6 pack them or $10.00, said the little boys could save themselves and yet i just saw a place that my niece and my nephew, my nephew. so interesting already, because now i got to play with them all over again in that way again. i mean i'm constantly playing with them now. yeah. so might as well the harvey. what did you do?
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oh god, i scared me of mary waiting and likely to is uh, an announcement we thought we'd never made the 2004 can and bobby's relationship is in trouble. and then barbie are going to go their separate ways to bobby fan communities is in a state of shock that on this bobby ever need a man love as being the home by the by the i think the concern given that we live in a patriarchal society was at the moment, can started playing a major role. i'm wondering if he'd take all the power unobservable, the energy so to speak. and then she'd just be the pretty trophy wife thought to side to the boy and of course, but that wouldn't work one because it contradicts the whole bobby idea media i have it. perfect marketing could
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a twist of fate. not that 3 united barbie kind of been a part for about 7 years. ken has been working so hard to win barbie back with grand gestures all over the city all over the globe. and today on valentine's day barbie said yes. we were made for each other. let's go for it and they are back together again. and if i can, oh, i thought i heard your voice do do yes. see, i was just in the bath, bright lathering the curves of my body. you've got and you know what i was thinking, no police that told me i was thinking that i would much prefer if you were there with me in the bathroom naked lathering the curves of my body to disclose the thank you see more or less explicit. never said of directly he still got interesting. okay. thanks barbie. i've got something to work with now. hey, can you teach me how to do the cool lighting change?
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of course we just it's not. no, i'm busy. ringback sam and mickey a k bobby in can don't minutes the woods the to, to make us have known each other since high school. publish this 1st video in 2010 . today they have a 440000 subscribers on youtube. i think that is entirely an attitude towards life because she's not in the object as much as she has such as this through real feeling because of of how long she's been around. yeah. so marketing, and she's still a projection of whatever we believe her to be, that i can be as drawn. and as i was because my responsibilities ended when you became a massive failure on past row, she can represent a they
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a projection of what they could be as an adult. um, as we get older, we experience the world, we become a little bit more cynical. there may be more negative projections towards bobby, because we put our own bias in room prejudices, entered attitudes of what a person should be and should represent onto the stove. but at the end of the day, she the love of questing according to mattel's commitment to diversity is paying off. they say sales within new diverse models are catching up to the classics. this cannot be verified. to super celebrities like senior queen, the teacher of delighted in any case is great that girls will get to see these bar because i wish i had these barbies growing up, you know? because i'm sure i would have one in various different kinds of our views and then they could have all had a conversation in my story. tell them where they got a lot better because we kind of had
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a lot more stories to tell. class size model ashley graham is also a positive poppy family. patel is doing the most to cultural exit bodies shame. imaged actually graham is perhaps the most internationally successful prophesized model. so why not as a bobby to as we've been. yeah. and the guns cluster shall, bobby, hey, we see a very drastic bobby plastic, so i'll be 40 measurements on this and um, on the thin legs. i might, i'd like to show the size here over the following reasons. the museum solution and a copy is now developed to create a visa one to then via my jo, decent. and if we compare this guy with this one here, we can see that that is really but not much more female as we've got is. so it's really questionable whether this can pos as a could be model who is working each car,
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please. it shouldn't be the edge by the says, well, i think she's good because she's just to do because some people onto skinny is others. and she's still not here, she's just a bit wider. it's less to high time as a he demonstrates yes. well everyone looks beautiful and everyone has their own opinion of how they look. and i'll be, well, i don't want to look like a bobby saying about doesn't to santa is all some i'm, i'm view, i'm the interesting thing is fixing this on the one hand, bob. we have a much wider pelvis than the classic bobby. but there's no difference in terms of cost science. so for example, it's very rare that a woman with this body shape would not have a significant lead. not just on the cold bread. you can just maples, tom, good. if she's meant to represent overweight girls, for example, meeting adult,
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she's still up. usually queen humans still and on the attainable ideals of many, i'm going to advise policy, the safina i do or not. it's probably a still an integral part of so many children's play with this today. god come and read this body of this or you can see from this, not all these continued to successfully as a result of her moving with the times because she's always the stuff ahead. the noise picks up on top of collisions obviously. so i think that's very, very important and that children can learn from p zip is under the special women who have achieved something. well, we'll have professions and traditionally men's fields. i think it's very, very important to show this through play, no certainty to children, but also to adult but to men. and so women, phone, things just come come speech. this one seems to show
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