I've told people I HAD this doll, but I was always met with skeptical looks. Surely this thing didn't exist.
I was reading Tanya Michaels' blog raising the rumor once more.
Then I remembered. My mom brought over a ton of boxes from her attic, which my husband promptly put in ours. I wondered if that Barbie were still in there. So when we went up there to get the Christmas decorations, I found my barbie box.
I remember lovingly placing my beautiful barbies in the box, hoping some day I'd have a little girl of my own to enjoy them. Let me tell you - these things are UGLY. Their hair looked fried and matted. Their skin took some weird orange hue and I'd apparantly given quite a few wayward makeovers.
No child would want to play with these things. Scary. Not on the Samaclaws level, but still a little frightening.
Then I saw her - the fabled grow with me barbie (whether that's her real name or not, I don't know).
Check her out (please pardon the ugly bob I'd given her). As well as the strange facial tattoo). Also, these are her original clothes:
Now here's "older" barbie after I twisted her arm:
Hmmm, are these pics are really doing this barbie justice? I'm not sure I want to be posting naked barbie pics on the blog. Although the 8 year-old did ask some very pointed questions after sneaking up behind my while I snapped this pic:
Hence the blurriness.
Of course posting naked barbie pics doesn't really seem to bother Gena. Maybe I should go for it.
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Gena would just get jealous at the ability to inflate her breasts at will. Though you might take the opposite view. ;-)
Okay, when I was 12 (okay, 14), I put up my Barbie collection, which topped out at 34 dolls, including 5 versions of Ken. And I have never heard of this grow-with-me Barbie.
Cool.
I wanna see how her breast grow and go back. I wish mine could go back. Oh, by the way. i heard a rumor that Jenny Bent is your agent too... that true? Cause I just signed with her(huge smile right now and it's not just the abundance of margaritas I had with our dinner out:)
Yes, Kels - I think an A cup would be amazing!
Teri - you twist her arm to make the breasts grow. I may just have to bring this thing to National this year.
Awesome on signing with Jenny - congrats!
My older sister and I started collecting Barbies about 10 years ago, but we had to stop because we were running out of display room. I think we have about 30, and some of theme are the beautiful Bob Mackie Barbies.
My fav? The Star Trek Barbie and Ken.
Kelli - you MUST post a pic of those Star Trek barbies.
Jill, you will have to bring her to National, or no one's going to believe you!
Yours still has all her hair? LOL! I fancied myself a cosmotologist. I too had one of those grow boobies Barbies. :-) She ended up bald with ink markings (make-up) on her face that bled and spread, making her look like Goth Barbie. :-)
Tanya
I will Colleen. And, I have to admit, that when we were in high school, there was this girl some were CONVINCED had a boob job over summer. They'd twist their arm when she wasn't looking, but comes to find out - she thought it was funny. Although we never did know if she had some enhancement.
Tanya - thank goodness there's another person who can confirm there WAS this barbie.
Goth Barbie - I should make one for Gena!!!
I'm wondering if the company that created the grow barbie thought they were helping children learn about development. I will say...at full size, this barbie's breasts are rather modest - not Barbie's cup size at all!
LMAO!! That is so funny, Jill!
I guess I missed the boobie growing Barbie when I was a kid. I too had packed up my Barbies when I was little. I even dated the box as to when I had last played with them. I'm odd. Anyway, on one of the last trips to my parent's house I got the boxes out and opened them. I was as deflated as you. Here I thought I had the world's best treasure of Barbies and it was just junk. I must have had some imagination when I was little. Maybe that imagination was just preparation for me growing up to be a writer...
Thanks for sharing your story.
LOL }:) I'd never heard of grow-with-me Barbie either. That's hilarious.
I only had one Barbie as a child, and it was one of her friends: Kelly. She had red hair, and I washed it once. It frizzed out so badly that she looked like the Bride of Frankenstein. I tried to enjoy her, but I was never much into dolls. I was much more the book and camera type.
When I go home, I'll get the digital camera and take some pics of our Barbie collection, including some of my favorite poses. Heh-heh.
Technically, she was "Growing Up Skipper." Why I remember this arcane bit of Barbie lore, I don't know.
Check her out here: http://www.dollreference.com/skipper_doll2.html
Excellent work, Charity!
I lood forward to reading more about Greenwich breast augmentation - the more the better..Byebye, Sage Greenwich breast augmentation
Normally I delete all spam to my blog, but the one above was just too funny!
Ahhh! I had this doll. It was called "Growing up Skipper" And I too get the same comments of skepticism that such a thing existed! Excellent. A good thing they didn't make a Grow with me Ken!
Thank you...I usually get the same crazy look and no one believes me...so today I searched for barbie whose breast grew and found you....I will be pointing my friends in your direction....
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