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'Normal Barbie' ad shows even dolls have flaws

The Lammily dolls ad deals with pressures of social media, diets and even twerking.

A NEW AD has been released for the Lammily doll which is a ‘normal Barbie‘ and it’s getting a lot of attention.

The ad sees the doll feeling pressure by social media, magazines, models with wings…looking a lot like Victoria Secret models and even twerking.

Creator of the doll Nickolay Lamm said: “I feel that in the doll world, the standards are funny.

So, if we can laugh at the standards in the doll world, maybe it will be easier to laugh at them in the real world.

The Lammily doll sees fat burning and cellulite removal ads everywhere she goes – until she heads to the beach where she decides she’s fine the way she is and sees the other dolls aren’t that perfect either:

Lammily / YouTube

The ad is being shared a lot online with even fashion magazines and entertainment channels jumping in:

The Lammily dolls come with stickers that give them ‘real’ attributes like spots, tattoos, cellulite and stretch marks.

Read: The new ‘Normal Barbie’ has spots, freckles, and tattoos>

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:27 AM

    The Jewish Council feel we are “oversimplifying” the issue?
    The worst genocide in modern times is oversimplified?
    israel is currently slaughtering men, women and children in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. They are stealing land all around them. It’s as simple as that. Then they play the victim, leaving the embassy while playing the “antisemitism” card.

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    Mute honey badger
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    Dec 16th 2024, 10:14 AM

    @James Groden: As a Putin fan, It’s not hard to see why you’d gloss over 500,000 killed by Putin, Assad, Hezbollah in Syria. Would you class this as a genocide? Or maybe Russia killing up to 2,000,000 Afghanis? Was that a genocide? Why hasn’t anyone called Yemen, with 400,000 dead, a genocide? Very strange, but it’s clear why Israel is being targeted.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 2:28 PM

    @honey badger: When anyone mentions any Yeman, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya you shout whataboutry and ignore what they say. Now you’re asking why they are not mentioned. Total hypocrite

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:19 AM

    Israel feel they have carte blanche to do what they like because of the strong Jewish lobby in the states and Uk and with ww2 and their own persecution. The victims have become the perpetrators. Sickening that they can get away anything they are doing. This is nothing to do with religion but Israel pull the “jew card” saying that anyone who disagrees is antisemetic. Bullcrap and something big needs to be done about this soon.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:44 AM

    @Ciaran: You and the rest are being played by Hamas. War is such a dirty cruel thing. All killing and plans to exterminate must end but getting int the minds of muslim Hamas caliphateists and fight to survive fearful Israelis is hard to see happening.

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    Mute Alan Kennedy
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    Dec 16th 2024, 11:47 AM

    @Basildon Joe: We’ll see how the latest CIA backed terrorists group get on in Syria!

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    Mute Ciaran
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    Dec 16th 2024, 2:56 PM

    @Basildon Joe: I’m not happy with the closure of the embassy , that’s Israel throwing toys out of pram. Israel have grabbed the land of Palestine for years. Look at a map from 1960 to now. This is well before the October 7th attacks. Israel are greedy land grabbers who are now grabbing some of Syria with the same with lebanon. But even saying hamas hade a terrorist act on Israel in October 7th, how many women and children have been killed by Israel since ? Bombing hospitals and schools and refugee camps. Is that justified? Stopping aid getting to hungry and sick civilians. Netanyahu has an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes. You really think he is innocent ? More fool you. Netanyahu needs to be terminated. Dirt of the earth

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    Mute hans vos
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    Dec 16th 2024, 4:49 PM

    @Ciaran: Israël surrendered Gaza completely in 2005. After a peace agreement with the Palestine authority.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 8:32 AM

    War is an experience outside the sphere of safe Irish politicians and public. Hamas is an experienced terror army that uses terror warfare strategies incomprehensible to Irish. While most male Hamas fighters are active elsewhere they pack their military offices with expendable sacrificial(martyr) women and female children as human shields. This tactic to protect the Hamas commanders is clearly working on the gullible safe western political mouths.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 8:59 AM

    @thomas molloy: still doesn’t change the fact 16+k kids were killed by Israel.

    Israel just secured future extremists.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:22 AM

    @Kieran Menon: That’s the plan. Hate begets Hate, Slaughter begets Slaughter. That’s what 7th October was about.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:39 AM

    @Kieran Menon: Hamas started the war on October last year. Yes Israël react over the top but fact is fact.
    Israël handed back Gaza in 2005. Removed all Israeli out of Gaza. A lot by force. There where no settlements in Gaza which was occupied only by Palestine. Still Hamas killed 1200 innocent civilian and took 200 hostage. Yes they started but the Irish government mention that every time only very briefly.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 1:37 PM

    @Kieran Menon: So you have noticed that Hamas commanders and control centers locate in schools and surround themselves with women and girls. Why are the government not calling this out ?

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    Dec 16th 2024, 2:13 PM

    @thomas molloy: You know damn well. Hamas was funded by Netanyahu to divide the Palestinians. You talk about Israel handing back Gaza. How do you think they got possession of it in the first place? Zionism is a toxic colonial venture born at the height of European colonial violence in the 19th century. It is a toxic offshoot of pan-German, racist, nationalism in Vienna in the 1890′s.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 6:03 PM

    @Kieran Menon: Civilian death counts in the Israel-Hamas war have been inflated and distorted to portray Israel as deliberately targeting innocent civilians, a new study found.
    The report from the UK-based Henry Jackson Society found that news outlets failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties and relied on manipulated statistics from the Hamas-run Health Ministry when reporting on the war.
    Gaza officials claim more than 44,700 people have been killed following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, but does not acknowledge that upwards of 17,000 were Hamas terrorists — a fact the media often omits, the study found, citing Israeli and US military and intelligence reports for its data.

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    Dec 16th 2024, 6:05 PM

    @Ulick: read the full report at HenryJacksonSociety.org

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:19 AM

    Is there any good news

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    Dec 16th 2024, 9:48 AM

    @Shanie: Dancing with the Stars is back soon!

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