Barbara Handler

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no ken no um because fuck ken so one the real barbara handler who is doing fine i does not love people bringing up barbie to her i think she's dead oh she's been dead since

2002 oh not barbara oh Oh, okay, I thought you were talking about Ruth Handler, and I was like, she's been doing it a long fucking time.

The real Barbara Handler, and Barbie at the end of the movie gives herself the last name Handler, which again, like, it's weird, because there's a real Ruth Handler, there's a real Barbara Handler who does not like being compared to the doll that bears her name.

And the real life Ken... handler was gay and died of aids

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Because the assimilationist story is really quite interesting.

Barbara Handler didn't talk to her mother for quite some time.

They had a real falling out.

She was freaked out about being Barbie.

You know, if Barbie the doll is a screen on which people project stuff, imagine what life would have been like for Barbara Handler.

So she was not a happy camper.

And Barbara also, because I go into this quite a bit, their relationship in my book, because Barbara also came out and said, I was an absolute brat.

And I think if all of a sudden Barbie goes, "Oh, I didn't really enjoy my, you know, time at the gynecologist's office," where she ends up, spoiler alert, in the last film, "I'm gonna go back to Barbie Land and become a plastic doll," it just feels like no matter what, a Barbie 2 would just unwind everything the movie stood for.

Yeah, Margot Robbie, as the real-life Barbara Handler, would have to live a normal life in all its kind of imperfection.

But also, to make the movie sustainable for Mattel to sell dolls, which is actually what their core business is-

Mm

Open-ended endings.

People follow the narrative.

I think there's also people follow Tom Holland and Ze- Zendaya's real-life relationship between quotes.

They're very dark, too.