In pursuit of an hourglass figure, some patients (and their plastic surgeons) are exploring a dramatic new frontier in body ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite toy industry naysayers, who carped that nobody would want to play with a doll that had breasts, Barbie—with her tiny waist and changeable yet always idealized looks—became a global ...

“Three years ago, Colombian surgeons started offering it as the ‘Barbie waist.’” While the vast majority of human bodies aren’t built like Barbie, “a lot of people would like to have ...