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By Nina Golgowski. If Barbie here a real woman she'd be forced to walk on all fours and would be physically incapable of lifting her over-sized head - perhaps a far Boddy from what the designers of Mattel envisioned. A disturbing chart that converts the doll's body scale into a real-life human being's reveals the outrageous proportions that transforms her into something out of a Sci-Fi movie.

Starting from the top down, Barbie's head would be two inches larger than the average American woman's while resting on a neck twice as long and six inches thinner. From these measurements she'd be entirely incapable of lifting her head.

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Mutant: The above picture shows how if Barbie's physical measurements were given to a real woman she'd only have room for half a liver and a few inches of intestine in her body, but room for a bigger brain. Her inch waist would also be four inches thinner than her head, leaving room for only half a liver and a few inches of intestine. Like her fragile 3. Then, as far as holding up her entire body - despite so much of it missing - it'd be an entirely impossible feat requiring her to walk Media and Unrealistic Body Image all fours.

That method of mobility is further supported, strictly theoretically, by her children's size three feet.

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The graphs released by Rehabs. What are the odds? Among the above chart's findings, it tells how the odds of finding a single woman with the same tall and thin neck as Barbie is one out of 4. One of a kind: Mattel previously defended Barbie's slim figure because of the bulk her clothes' seams, snaps and zippers add. In addition to comparing Barbie's body proportions to the average American woman's, it also compares them to the average anorexic woman.

Further stressing Barbie's one-of-a-kind body, while considering the sizes of both average American women and anorexic women, Rehabs.]