Family & Friends

• Barbie's family tree may look like a giant Sequoia, but the Barbie Dream House always has room for friends and family, including:
• Sisters.
• Barbie® has three sisters: Skipper, Stacie, Chelsea.
• Friends.

Barbie has seven siblings. Skipper was introduced in 1964, twins Todd and Tutti were around from 1965 to 1971, Stacie hit shelves in 1990, Kelly was sold from 1994 to 2010 and Chelsea was introduced in 2011 as a replacement for Kelly.

Age and gender The only doll whose age is definitively known is Chelsea, who turns six during Happy Birthday Chelsea. Skipper appears to be between 14 and 16 years old, while Stacie falls somewhere in between her two sisters.

Barbie officially debuted on March 9, 1959, at the American International Toy Fair in New York City as a creation of Mattel, Inc.'s Ruth Handler. Handler got her inspiration from the German Lilli doll in 1956, and development of the Barbie doll began soon after. Barbie was first sold in 1958.

'Kelly Roberts is the younger sister of Barbie, Skipper And Stacie and the older sister of Krissy. Kelly was introduced in 1995 and retired in 2010. She was replaced by Chelsea in 2011. Kelly is now featured in the "Barbie: I Can Be" toy line and the "Skipper Babysitters Inc" toy line.

And so you probably already know the basic plot: Barbie (Margot Robbie), the most popular of all the Barbies in Barbieland, begins experiencing an existential crisis. She must travel to the human world in order to understand herself and discover her true purpose.

Barbie was named after Ruth Handler's daughter, Barbara, and Ken after her son, Kenneth. She is from (fictional) Willows, Wisconsin, where she attended high school. Barbie's official birthday is March 9, 1959, the day she was unveiled to the toy industry during New York Toy Fair.

Barbie's creation was inspired by the mid-Century German fashion doll, Bild Lilli. Handler observed European children's penchant for the adult-like figurine, and decided to create her own 'woman' doll for American children.

Barbie has three younger sisters: Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea. Mattel describes Barbie as strong, confident and always willing to help her siblings.

The first Teresa doll was released in 1988 as a Latina teenager known to be something of a "tech genius." Yes, you read that right. All the way back in the '80s, someone at Mattel actually decided to make a Latina doll who was smart, driven, and a loyal best friend to Barbie.

As she grew in popularity, Barbie became more than just a children's toy: She emerged from her plastic wrappings to become a powerful symbol of womanhood for the girls who played with her, just as Handler intended.

Ruth discloses that Barbie was named after her daughter Barbara, emphasizing the mother-daughter dynamic permeating the plot. And she also pokes fun at her own faults, briefly quipping about her bouts with tax evasion, which ultimately led to her resignation from the company in 1974.

Biography. Krissy was introduced to the Barbie toyline as Barbie's baby sister in 1999 before being discontinued in 2001. Within the Barbie Parodies, Krissy is the fourth and currently the last child of Ken Roberts and Barbie Roberts.

Margot Robbie, also an executive producer, leads the musical comedy as Stereotypical Barbie, who experiences a full on existential crisis and embarks on a journey of self discovery. Along for the ride is her beau Ken, played by Ryan Gosling.

Enter Greta Gerwig and the Barbie movie. This is a film that explicitly acknowledges the un-coolness of Barbie when Robbie's Barbie is belittled by a middle-schooler in the school cafeteria, and pokes fun at the Barbies for their delusional belief that they've “fixed” gender inequality in the real world.

It's not just the organic nostalgia and universality around “Barbie” that contributed to its rocketing success - it was a savvy marketing campaign. From the get-go, it was clear it would be the summer of pink as several brands collaborated with “Barbie” and ads flooded social media.