More models are available with flatter feet and US producer Mattel is making the dolls more down-to-earth, according to a study by Monash University near Melbourne, Australia. Barbie, born in 1959, ...

By the 2020s, only 40 percent of Barbie dolls were designed with permanently arched feet for wearing high heels ...

Barbie once could only stand on her tip toes, in tiny high heels. Her job? To look pretty. A new study finds there's a correlation between flatter-footed Barbies and more job choices.

Soon, we had designed a research project to study the feet of Barbie dolls on the market from her launch in 1959 to June 2024 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF CHARLI XCX'S "SPEED DRIVE") CHARLI XCX: (Singing) Ah-ah, Barbie, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind ... RASCOE: That movie scene got several researchers thinking.