--- title: Little Girls React to Normal Barbie, Lammily Doll description: "She looks like a regular girl going to school." canonical: https://time.com/3593985/realistic-barbie-alternative-lamm/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-19T12:49:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:42.903Z og:title: Watch Little Girls React to a Realistic Looking Barbie Alternative og:description: "She looks like a regular girl going to school." og:url: https://time.com/3593985/realistic-barbie-alternative-lamm/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528ff08793835ef2/69876977a988ca69976aacf8/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-4-00-39-am.png?branch=production&width=575&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 575 og:image:height: 323 og:image:alt: Screen shot 2014-11-19 at 4.00.39 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Little Girls React to a Realistic Looking Barbie Alternative twitter:description: "She looks like a regular girl going to school." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528ff08793835ef2/69876977a988ca69976aacf8/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-4-00-39-am.png?branch=production&width=575&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Little Kids React to a Realistic-Looking Barbie Alternative > Sponsored content. 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So when Nickolay Lamm presented a Pennsylvania class of second graders with his Barbie alternative, his newly created [Lammily doll](https://www.lammily.com/) which has the measurements of an average 19-year-old woman (according to CDC data) rather than an [anatomically impossible mutant](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308658/How-Barbies-body-size-look-real-life-Walking-fours-missing-half-liver-inches-intestine.html), he didn’t know how they were going to react. Most of the kids thought the doll, available for purchase Wednesday, looked kind of familiar. “She looks like my sister!” one girl exclaimed, smiling. “She kind of looks like my aunt Katie,” said another. “She looks like a regular girl going to school.” “She looks like she would help someone if they were hurt.” “She’s not like other dolls… she looks real.” That reality check didn’t prove to be a bad thing. When presented with a blonde and busty Barbie, the children said that they’d rather have the one who, if real, “would be able to stand.” A very apt observations, [considering previous research](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308658/How-Barbies-body-size-look-real-life-Walking-fours-missing-half-liver-inches-intestine.html) showing Barbie wouldn’t be able to lift her head fully if she were an actual human. Of course unrealistic looking dolls are still very popular whether it’s Barbie or the [Monster High](http://www.monsterhigh.com/en-us/shop/productdetail?id=37984976&ProductName=Monster-High-Freaky-Fusion-Dracubecca-Doll&Category=newarrivals&SubCategory=newarrivals&SeoName=fan-fave) collection with their mini-skirts and platform-heeled thigh-high boots. I[n 2012, researchers asked 60 girls, ages six to nine, ](http://www.medicaldaily.com/psychologists-reveal-why-even-6-year-old-girls-want-be-sexy-241398)to choose one of two paper dolls: one dressed in a tight “sexy” outfit and the other wearing a “fashionable” but loose and covered up outfit. Sixty-eight percent of the girls wanted to look like the sexy doll and 72% thought she would be “more popular” than the conservative looking paper doll. That study had a limited sample size, and paper dolls are no match for 3D toys, but the results are an indication of how difficult it is to change cultural trends. But perhaps after a decade during which dolls have gotten ever more racy, perhaps [parents and kids are ready](http://www.babble.com/mom/10-dolls-that-are-too-sexy-for-our-little-girls-photos/) for an appealing alternative to the bug-eyed, wasp-waisted creatures that now populate the girls aisle. At least that’s what Lamm is betting on. [Read more about the Lammily doll — and her strange accessory packs — here.](http://wp.me/p5HMd-f4Xe) _Read next:_ [_Mattel Apologizes for Making Barbie Look Incompetent in Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer_](http://time.com/3595106/mattel-apologizes-for-making-barbie-look-incompetent-in-barbie-i-can-be-a-computer-engineer/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3593985/realistic-barbie-alternative-lamm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3593985/realistic-barbie-alternative-lamm/"},"headline":"Watch Little Kids React to a Realistic-Looking Barbie Alternative","datePublished":"2014-11-19T12:49:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:42.903Z","description":"\"She looks like a regular girl going to school.\"","url":"https://time.com/3593985/realistic-barbie-alternative-lamm/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","Body Image","kids","Barbie","Toys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528ff08793835ef2/69876977a988ca69976aacf8/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-4-00-39-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528ff08793835ef2/69876977a988ca69976aacf8/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-4-00-39-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen shot 2014-11-19 at 4.00.39 AM","caption":"","creditText":"Lammily","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3593985/realistic-barbie-alternative-lamm/","name":"Watch Little Kids React to a Realistic-Looking Barbie Alternative"}}]}] ```