While curvy Barbie’s hips, thighs and calves are visibly larger than before, from the waist up she is less Jessica Rabbit than she is pear-shaped. Mattel refuses to discuss the actual ...

Barbie: Hi, Ken! You're looking unrealistically ... Narrator: First, we measured each of the dolls, their height, waist, and so on, and used some high-school algebra to figure out their life ...

It wasn't until 1997 that Barbie's impossibly tiny waist was made bigger as she was given more realistic body proportions. By 2015, you could buy Barbie dolls with curvy, tall and petite body types.

In 1997, Mattel decided to give Barbie a more realistic figure and made her waist bigger. Barbie starred in her first animated feature film in 2001's "Barbie in the Nutcracker." The following year ...

Narrator: Although Jensen is the average height of an American woman, she has a smaller-than-average waist. But still, it's not nearly as thin as Barbie's. If we scale Barbie to life-size ...