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Frustrated with the unrealistic beauty standards perpetuated by Barbie and her ilk, artist Nickolay Lamm set out to create a doll that has proportions more representative of the average woman. To do so, Lamm took data from the CDC about the “average” 19-year-old woman, who is about 5 foot 4, with a 33-inch waist, and created a doll that mirrored those proportions. Her name is Lammily, and her tagline is “Average is beautiful.” “I think a realistic sized doll is important because, when I look at current dolls on the market, I can’t help but notice how disproportionate they are,” said Lamm in an email to Salon. “By making a doll real I feel attention is taken away from the body and to what the doll actually does.” To really drive home his point, here’s a video Lamm made of Lammily being airbrushed into Barbie:

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