Does anyone remember this?
I think the ad is from the early 1990s. The copy helpfully points out that you can "take off her tummy, and there's her baby. Lift out the newborn with moveable arms and legs, and now she has a flat tummy."
I also clipped a New York Times column by Anna Quindlen about the dolls, in which she describes the baby removal process as "a cross between a C-section, a tummy tuck and an Easter egg hunt."
Then and now, I find the photo of the smiling doll -- flat on her back, with her torso opened up like a porthole -- revolting.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A New Meaning for Baby Doll
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This is FABULOUSLY terrible! I love that husband Charlie is sold separately.
oh! oh! And I love that it is for 3 and Over. Because babies might swallow the newborn by accident.
(I do hate EUROPES 1991 DOLL OF THE YEAR has no ' . Ew.)
Talk about a lousy anatomy lesson for the little ones. It gives the impression that girls have hinged abdomens and no guts... It really is revolting!
The little girl in this ad is me. Yes it was the early 90’s and I got to keep the doll, which I thought was really cool at the time. It’s a terrible doll though. 😂
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