Last week West Virginia state lawmaker Jeff Eldridge proposed a bill to legally ban Barbie (and other dolls that promote beauty) from the sales shelves across the state as he believes the busty blonde sends young children the damaging message that looks are everything. Well, the controversial Kardashian sisters had quite a message for him in return when we caught up with them at Barbie’s 50th Birthday Party in her Malibu Dream House on Monday.
“He can suck an egg, seriously. He’s probably butt-ugly and always wanted a girlfriend that looked like Barbie but could never get one. People like that really annoy me,” Khloe Kardashian said, with her sis Kourtney adding that it was “so ridiculous.”
“She’s been around 50 years and girls love her. Its fun, it’s a doll — get over it people,” Kourtney added.
Even self-proclaimed feminist, He’s Just Not That Into You starlet Ginnifer Goodwin, finds the whole proposal to ban Barbie baffling.
“Barbie’s very empowering and my inner feminist is really very proud of our Barbie culture,” Goodwin said. “She does have a rather tiny, unrealistic waist but she’s a doll and you know the thing about Barbie that I’ve always found very inspiring is she was fashionable and could have a fella if she wanted and sometimes she did, sometimes she didn’t and any career of her choosing. So if she was affluent it was due to her successes and especially for a doll that premiered in the 1950’s that’s pretty admirable that’s pretty incredible.”
And playing with the little plastic person hasn’t hurt VS Angel Heidi Klum either.
“I think that’s crazy, Barbie is so much fun. I’m not into plastic surgery and all of these things. I’m like super natural person. I do wear make-up yes and I love high heels and outfits, but I’m a jeans T-shirt normal girl and I used to love playing with Barbies,” Klum said. “But that didn’t change me all of sudden. I didn’t become a plastic person or start acting like a fake person.”
So could Mattel getting ready to come out with a mini-me of Heidi Klum?
“You guys just have to hold onto your horses a little while longer and then maybe then you’ll know and see,” the Project Runway starlet said with a smile. “But if she could talk she would say ‘you’re out’.”
What we also found quite amusing is that reality star Lauren Conrad really had no idea what an L.C. Barbie would do if it was ever made.
“Tough question, oh gosh – what would my Barbie do?” she asked her friend Lauren “Lo” Bosworth, who quickly suggested that maybe she should like, design clothes – after all, Conrad does have her own clothing line. But as it turns out, L.C said now that The Hills is over she actually hopes to work behind-the-cameras in production and is already working on her second book.
On the note of production, the Jonathon Adler-designed Dream House which hosted Barbie’s coming-of-age bash really did bring to the life her theatrical and mystical existence. The Malibu mansion (which is soon going to be transported to a suite at the Palms Resort & Casino in Sin City) was complete with a cupboard full of 50 pairs of Christian Louboutin hot-pink high heels, a chandelier made of Barbie’s hair, a gigantic Andy Warhol portrait of Barbie, a feather-topped pouf chair and a mirror framed entirely with dolls. There was even a Volkswagen Pink New Beetle convertible in the garage in which the likes of Aubrey O’Day, Heidi Klum and Ginnifer Goodwin were spotted fooling around inside.
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