Mattel Releasing New Barbie Dolls, Including Bindi Irwin And Amelia Earhart
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 09: Bindi Irwin arrives ahead of the 5th AACTA Awards Presented by Presto at The Star on December 9, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for AFI)
Mattel has released some new Barbie dolls to honor a group of women that includes conservationist Bindi Irwin, skateboarder Chloe Kim and pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart.
- Here’s the list of the women being honored as role models with their own dolls:
- Patty Jenkins, who broke the record for highest-grossing live-action film directed by a woman for Wonder Woman
- Chloe Kim, who became the youngest woman to win Olympic gold in snowboarding last month
- Bindi Irwin, Australian TV personality who took up her father Steve Irwin’s cause of animal conservation after his death
- Nicola Adams, British two-time gold medal-winning boxer
- Çağla Kubat, a Turkish wind surfer who started a wind surfing school for young people
- Hélène Darroze, a French chef who has two Michelin stars
- Hui Ruoqi, captain of the Chinese volleyball team who won gold in the 2016 Olympic Games
- Lorena Ochoa, Mexican professional golfer
- Martyna Wojciechowska, Polish journalist, author, director and TV personality who also conquered the Seven Summits
- Sara Gama, captain of the Italian soccer team
- Xiaotong Guan, Chinese actress and philanthropist
- Yuan Tan, Chinese prima ballerina at the San Francisco Ballet
- Vicky Martin Berrocal, Spanish fashion designer and entrepreneur
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican surrealist artist
- Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer
- Katherine Johnson, mathematics pioneer who worked for NASA and subject of the film ‘“Hidden Figures’“
Barbie is releasing 17 new dolls honoring "historical and modern-day role models from around the world" for International Women's Day. https://t.co/g2508m1xOx pic.twitter.com/yBrmkagTNz
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