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If you didn’t give your Barbie a haircut, chew on her limbs, throw her around the room, and make her have sex with her besties growing up, you weren’t playing with her properly.

For years, people have questioned what role Ken really plays in Barbie’s life. But the truth is in plain sight: Ken’s not boyfriend material. At least, not for Barbie.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyIt’s Barbie Week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, celebrating the doll’s pop-culture history, our favorite Barbie memories, and a certain major movie. Read all of our coverage here!“She’s everything. He’s just Ken.” That’s the tagline for the wildly anticipated Barbie movie, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. The implication is clear: Come for Barbie, and stay for B...

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyIt’s Barbie Week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, celebrating the doll’s pop-culture history, our favorite Barbie memories, and a certain major movie. Read all of our coverage here!When we talk about America’s eras of indulgent overabundance, why do we never mention the 1990s? As a ’90s baby myself, I’m sick of it. Our minds jump to the poshness of the art deco Roaring ’20s or the Wall Street-y greed of t...

ITV pulled out all the stops for their annual summer party on Wednesday night, and stars turned up in their masses to celebrate the broadcaster.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/MattelIt’s Barbie Week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, celebrating the doll’s pop-culture history, our favorite Barbie memories, and a certain major movie. Read all of our coverage here!Despite years of fervent online chatter and a massive marketing campaign, we know very few plot details about Greta Gerwig’s inevitable summer blockbuster Barbie. However, in a Vogue cover story for the film’s star Margot Robbie, the di...

After what feels like an eternity of waiting, “Barbie” has arrived—and in a moving, hilarious, nearly perfect package to boot.

The creators of the 2010s web series “The Most Popular Girls in School” have a few specific references that they would love to see in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway / Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyIt’s Barbie Week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, celebrating the doll’s pop-culture history, our favorite Barbie memories, and a certain major movie. Read all of our coverage here!Barbie has starred in numerous films and television programs, and—on screen and off—she’s played countless roles, from doctor and dancer to flight attendant and computer engineer. Yet perhaps her ...

Todd Haynes’ “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story” is a riveting, challenging portrait of the late artist. That all the characters were played by Barbies was even more harrowing.