After following in Barbie's footsteps as a teen fashion model, Tonya Ruiz rejected the doll when she became a mother. But that changed when she became a grandmother.
“My obsession began when I got my Barbie on my third birthday,” she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “And I opened that polyvinyl goddess and she changed my life.”
“Especially for a 16, 17-year-old girl, there was a very ugly side to the beauty business,” Ruiz says. “When I weighed 118 pounds, they told me I was fat and I needed to lose weight.” Looking back, Ruiz says she realized it was a dramatic thing for an 18-year-old to think, much less do. And thankfully, it never came to that. After returning home, a friend invited her to a concert.
Instead of Barbie, she encouraged her two daughters to play with American Girl and Cabbage Patch dolls. three new body types for Barbie: tall, petite, and curvy. Eventually, Ruiz had a Barbie doll to match every person in her family. Instagram account, Ruiz decided to create a “1:6 scale miniature parallel universe of my life.” She has eight dioramas ranging from bedrooms and bathrooms to kitchens. Sometimes she even goes “twinning” by wearing the exact same outfit as her Grandma Barbie lookalike.
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