The Ken doll was introduced in 1960 as Barbie’s boyfriend. Barbie was not a baby doll; instead she was a role model for teenage girls and a way for girls to imagine what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Facts about Barbie:
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Barbie's real name is Barbie Millicent Roberts
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Barbie has four sisters: Skipper, Stacie, Kelly and Krissy
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The first Barbie doll sold for $3 in 1959
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Barbie's first boyfriend, Ken, debuted in 1961
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The best-selling Barbie ever was in 1992, with hair from the top of her head to her toes
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Barbie has never been married, she just likes to model wedding gowns for her designer friends
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Barbie has never been pregnant, Midge was her best friend.
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Barbie has had 108 careers in her life, such as an astronaut, Olympic athlete, a paleontologist, politician, a rock star, a firefighter and a McDonald's employee. She was also a nurse in 1961, a Radio City Music Hall Rockette in 1993, an art teacher in 2002, a ballerina, and a US Army officer during Desert Storm in 1992
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Ninety percent of American girls ages 3 to 10 years old own as least one Barbie
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Barbie and Ken were together for 43 years
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Barbie has owned 50 pets
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Ken and Barbie broke up on Valentine's Day in 2004
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Barbie has owned more than 1 billion pairs of shoes and at least 100 sets of clothes for each year she's been in production.
Barbie has attended both Willows High School in Wisconsin and Manhattan International High School in New York City. She's had 38 pets, many of which were very exotic and included a panda bear, a lion cub, and a zebra as well as cats, dogs and horses. She has earned her driver's license, which she uses to drive a pink convertible as well as her pilot's license to operate airplanes. If Barbie were life sized human being, she would be 5'9" tall.
Barbie's been the only star of her own movies and workout videos such as "Dance! Workout with Barbie" (1991), "Barbie in the Nutcracker," (2001), "Barbie as Rapunzel," (2002) and "Barbie of Swan Lake," (2003), you can also see her as a guest star alongside Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 2 (1999) as Tour Guide Barbie.
