All about Barbie: Meet the Yorkshire Barbies as the region gears up for the new film
Barbie - who has been transformed into a feminist icon - has become the unlikely role model for many women in Yorkshire, very much like Elle Woods was in Legally Blonde.
Carly Gulliver, a solicitor from Leeds said: “Barbie - one woman, different hats. Surgeon to ski to school teacher barbie.”
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Hide AdHer friend Jodie Hill, who founded Thrive Law, agrees as she shares a photo of herself with her mother and great grandmother all championing Barbie.
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Food instagrammer and chef Freda Shafi from Bradford loves Barbie and said it’s time however for “Barbia,” an Asian Barbie.
Barbie now represents a whole world of opportunity to a lot of women in the first live action film, in which she inspires women all over that they can achieve whatever they wish - overcoming any barriers.
Writer-director Greta Gerwig, co-writer Noah Baumbach and producer-star Margot Robbie of the new Barbie film have transformed Barbie into a feminist icon having written the film during the Pandemic tucked away from the Hollywood elite.
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Hide AdPersonal trainer Katy Padam, from Leeds, said: “I am fitness Barbie or Indian Barbie.
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Growing up with a love for Barbie in the 80’s I remember being in love with my dolls, never letting anyone touch them and always dreamt of being an Indian barbie when I grew up.”
Yorkshire Model Amber Manning said that Barbie was once a hinder to the representation of people but now the new Barbie is a stride forwards.
She said: “I think it gives representation to creativity, that can be used in a good and negative way too.”