[Note: If you're expecting to learn anything, this isn't that kind of post. Sure, if you're not well-versed in Barbie, you'll learn a little something. But overall, this is more of an entertainment post. That being said...]
The thought I had was about a 80s-/90s-style drama, like Dynasty...
Fun Fact: I (indirectly) got my name from the bad-ass main character Alexis Carrington-Colby (far right).
...about a mother and daughter.
As we know, Barbie Millicent Roberts was "born" in the late 1950s. If you look at her then and now, you'll notice she's changed quite a bit.
I like to think of the older, more stern Barbie as actually being Barbie's mother, Margaret Millicent "Millie" Roberts. Millie's the queen-bee, wealthy socialite responsible for the family's image. She met her husband, George (the first Ken), when she was in her late teens and together they built the Roberts Family Empire.
Millie was much more agreeable in her youth. But she became an iron lady as she grew older.
By her late-20s, Millie Roberts was a fashion icon and a mother. Though she had features from both her parents, Barbra "Barbie" Roberts shined as brightly as her mother.
However, as the young heiress grew older and her relationship with her mother became strained. Barbie wasn't satisfied with her mother's fashion-oriented lifestyle; she used her weather and family name to achieve different goals...
Among several other careers before the job market crash...
Disappointed, Millie tries to talk Barbie into returning to the fashion world claiming "women don't belong in careers like law and medicine". Her efforts fail, though, and Barbie and her mother stop speaking to each other. Barbie meets Ken, and they have an on-and-off relationship.
I could go on, but where's the fun in that? Let your imagination run wild for a moment about your favorite childhood doll/action figure.
(Barbie goes all "Amanda Bynes" in the later seasons of this imaginary television series.)
LOL! Don't worry. She eventually gets her act together.
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