Body by Mattel™?
It has been calculated that if a Barbie doll was a real woman, she’d be 7 feet tall with a 44 inch bust, 17 inch waist, and 40 inch hips. Disproportionate, she wouldn’t be able to walk properly (a “life-sized” model of the plastic glamour-girl turned she-monster collapsed in half, unable to support her upper half). Too thin, she wouldn’t have breasts or be able to menstruate, and she would be at risk for a heart attack and osteoporosis as early as in her twenties.
Despite her alarmingly unrealistic dimensions, women have continuously striven to adhere to the blonde, thin, busty standard of beauty that is Barbie.
51 year-old Cindy Jackson has adhered to this standard a bit much. That is to say, literally.
Boasting the title “The Human Barbie,” Jackson has dedicated her life to becoming the physical incarnation of the doll. With extensive work done to her breasts, knees, abdomen, thighs, nose, eyes, forehead, hairline, chin, lips, and skin, Jackson (not to be confused with the other surgery aficionado of the same appellation) has had over 47 cosmetic procedures. She has even earned a Guinness World Record for her achievement.
Even stranger, Jackson has a rival for the title. Sarah Barge, 47, of the UK, has had over 120 hours of surgery (and counting) on every visible body part except her feet in her own effort to become Barbie.
But at the end of a long day of defending her title and promoting her line of skin care products, Jackson returns to her “dream house” to the arms of her very own Ken. Husband Steve Erhardt has himself had over thirty surgeries and spent over a quarter of a million dollars molding himself into Barbie’s—err, Jackson’s—other half.