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Second Graders React to Lammily and Other Fashion Dolls_ by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 19, 2014 12:49 PM UTC Second Graders React to Lammily and Other Fashion Dolls by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 19, 2014 12:49 PM UTC The dolls kids are used to playing with are often nipped and tucked to have impossibly big eyes and a ridiculously small waist. 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) ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] How would children respond to a realistically [00:04] proportioned fashion doll. To find out, I went to St. [00:08] Edmund's Academy, an independent school in [00:12] Pittsburgh. There Assistant Head of School, Susan [00:16] Miller, asked children a series of questions. To see [00:20] what they think of Lammily in comparison to other [00:24] dolls. She's so pretty. I like her. I like her. I like [00:32] her. I like her a lot. Hmm. I like [00:40] her. So cool, it's cool. She looks like my sister. She [00:44] looks like my sister. From the side [00:48] she really looks like her. She kinda looks like my aunt [00:52] Katie. She's not like other dolls. [00:58] She, like, isn't, like, very thin. I think she's really pretty. [01:01] The hair looks like real hair. It feels as soft as [01:06] mine. Feels soft. The hair [01:11] feels so soft. Her hair is softer than I thought. Her hair [01:11] is definitely like hair. She's not like other dolls [ MUSIC ] [01:12] That I play with. She's [01:16] really unique cause I don't have other dolls [01:21] like this. It looks [01:27] real. It looks more like a real live person. She's like a [01:30] real person. She looks more like a person. Her belly [01:31] button looks realistic. She looks like she's just [01:35] a regular girl going to school. [01:39] Any activities you think she [01:45] would do? About [01:52] every activity I do. I still in gymnastics and dance. I [01:55] make her run. I make her do gymnastics, too. Like a [01:58] gymnastics pose. Gymnastics. You can like, pretend [02:03] she's running. And she could [02:08] ride some of my toy horses, but this one can't really go [02:10] her so legs apart. What would you say [02:15] the career would be of the Lamalee doll? Swimmer. A [02:16] swimmer. Being a teacher. T shirt. T [02:21] shirt. Surfing. Like a computer job. A [02:25] pilot. What do you think the other doll would be? A [02:30] surfer. A fashion star. LIke a model. A makeup artist. [02:35] A swimming teacher. A cook. Looks like she would [02:40] do any job. Which one do you think most [02:45] seems like you? This one. This one. This one. This one. [02:47] This, this [02:56] one. Cuz if she was real she would be able to. Stand [03:00] more. What do the other one's feet look like? Like [03:05] she has heel, invisible heels on. These don't really [03:09] have like the kinda heel things. This [03:14] have their toes stuck together, and they have like. The [03:18] high heeled form of the tippy toe, these ones can like, [03:22] they have separate toes. The toes like, they're not like [03:26] a bunch of bumps. Cuz me, arms. [03:31] Are not that like, skinny, all the way. Are they the [03:41] same? Oh, what is different? She [03:45] is wider than this one. She is a [03:50] little bit wider. She is wider. More humanlike [03:54] and wider. It's a little bit. Bladder. Her belly's so in. [03:58] Like And this one is like nice and like the [04:06] perfect size. It's not thin like that. [04:10] She's not so skinny. This one's like all [04:15] fashiony and then like, and I think, then she thinks [04:18] they're bet, she. He's better than everyone else. [04:19] [ LAUGH ] I used to have, like, as [04:26] much makeup as she does. She doesn't have a lot of [04:30] makeup like most of my dolls. But she's smiling. She [04:34] has a smile on the, her face. [04:42] And. [ MUSIC ] She looks like she would help somebody [04:45] if they get hurt. If I were to [04:49] say to you, you're gonna get one of these dolls as a [04:50] present ., which one would you like to receive as a [04:50] present? I have many of these and [04:56] I would like this one. This one, cuz I already have [05:00] her. I already have this one. So, I would like get this [05:02] one. You wouldn't like- Little Emily doll. [ MUSIC ] This [05:03] one. [ MUSIC ] Little Emily doll. This [05:09] one. Probably [05:17] once the boy dolls get out, I'll probably play with them [05:19] a lot. 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