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28 March 2024

Real-life Barbie girl is internet sensation

Yun Tang studies in Australia. (Pic credit: rocketnews24.com)

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Ever had that talk with your daughter about how Barbie dolls are not real? Well, get ready for a surprise.

This picture is not of a Barbie doll. Not the fake one anyhow.

A Chinese student studying in Australia is fast become an internet sensation because she looks exactly like a Barbie doll.

The girl identified by asiaone.com as Yun Tang, 19, studying Adelaide University, this Chinese Barbie has done nothing major in terms of altering her physical appearance to look like this.

Asiaone quotes a report on Rocketnews24, saying Tang as plenty of followers and admirers in China.

Makers of dolls are under increasing pressure to present ‘realistic’ dolls.

The emergence of someone who so closely resembles an iconic doll figure is going to raise the debate of the pressure it puts on young girls to look ‘Barbie-like’ again.