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Will the real Beth Ditto please stand up?

April 27th, 2009

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In 1998, the Body Shop ran the Ruby campaign, featuring a size 22ish Barbie au naturale, reclining on a chaise. It was the campaign that woke up my little size acceptance brain, just the audacity of the Mattel icon looking, well, a lot like me (disclaimer: unlike Ruby, I do have nipples) and then the outrage that the campaign had to be pulled because it was upsetting too many people.

I can’t help but think of Ruby when looking at a Beth Ditto doll created by plus-size UK retailer Evans to promote their new Ditto-designed line which drops this July.

Uh, they know Beth Ditto is a fat girl, right? And they’re trying to sell clothing to fat girls? I had almost allowed myself to believe that we’ve come so far since 1997 when Ruby was pulled out of the mall for supposedly frightening children on their way to Build-A-Bear, but then Beth Ditto’s supposed dolly doppelganger has all of her thigh dimples lipo’d away. So close and yet, so far.

Posted by Weetabix

Filed under: Advertising, Beth Ditto, Celebrities, Fashion

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14 Responses to Will the real Beth Ditto please stand up?

  1. April, on April 27th, 2009 at 5:23 pm Said:

    Wow. That doll has no thighs. So close yet so far, indeed.

  2. raine, on April 27th, 2009 at 5:41 pm Said:

    Uh, where’s the rest of her?

  3. Godless Heathen, on April 27th, 2009 at 6:12 pm Said:

    Where are her belly rolls? I love her belly rolls, she’s so glam and yet we’ve got the same tummy! Boo at Evans, boo I say!

  4. plonit almonit, on April 27th, 2009 at 9:17 pm Said:

    Wow, indeed. I spent a lot of time as a kid staring at Barbie and learning to hate my body. I ought to be happy that at least the doll represents a larger woman, but still, the article’s line that “Ditto’s curves have been translated into pint-sized proportions” is totally bogus. Way pissed off.

  5. Meems, on April 27th, 2009 at 9:22 pm Said:

    raine, I had the same reaction…

  6. Addish, on April 27th, 2009 at 10:28 pm Said:

    I don’t think it’s to to bad. It does look like her a good bit….it’s just thinner looking actually….which is pretty stupid. I want one though just because it’s Beth.

  7. Fat Angie, on April 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm Said:

    I hate to be the devil’s advocate (no I don’t, I relish in it, lol), but could the smaller proportions when compared to Ditto be because of the “fashion doll” medium? ie. it’s difficult to pose a barbie whose thighs touch?

    I’m not saying it’s ok or good, but merely that it may be a limitation of the medium.

  8. B.G.Sanford, on April 28th, 2009 at 1:51 pm Said:

    I just happened to run across this site while blogging. I’d like to take just a moment to promote my new book, “Beth:Love Along The Way…by B.G.Sanford,” and just released by Eloquent Books. It’s a wonderful story of a woman who over comes all odds, and 2 bad divorces, to find love…………….Along The Way.
    It’s a most entertaining read, and can be bought on line or have your local book store order it.
    All my best,
    B.G.Sanford
    http://www.eloquentbooks.com/BethLoveAlongTheWay.html

  9. lisa-marie, on April 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm Said:

    The Beth Ditto doll is capital A adorable, but the fat Barbie was quite disturbing. Maybe it’s because the fat Barbie doll was naked and really quite hideous and the Beth doll is dressed in a cute hot pink minidress. I dunno. I’d get one of the Beth dolls, though. Can’t wait to see the clothing line!

  10. Susan, on April 29th, 2009 at 6:41 am Said:

    Maybe it’s because the fat Barbie doll was naked and really quite hideous

    All dolls are hideous when naked. It’s the joints [shudder].

  11. Bethany, on April 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pm Said:

    I thought the fat Barbie was hot, not hideous. Just throwing it out there.

  12. wildefae, on May 1st, 2009 at 9:46 am Said:

    I too thought the fat Barbie was gorgeous. I think the Beth doll was gorgeous too – and to be fair in recent photos it looks like she’s lost a bunch of weight, although that could be that she’s into trapeze dresses lately, not as much skin-tight stuff – but it doesn’t quite portray her accurately.

    I do think it might be hard to do so realistically. Remember, the Body Shop doll was an illustration, not a real doll: plastic doesn’t fold that way, and if you attempted to there’d be no way it could move the same way; it’d be an immobile fatty, not a rockstar. It is a bigger doll than most other dolls. It has thighs. It’s got big shoulders and a round face. Its arms are substantially bigger.

    I wish it were more Ditto-esque as well but I’ll take what I’m given (…I’ll ask for seconds, but I won’t refuse what I get, you know?). Beth being in the spotlight is in my humble opinion a good thing, even if things aren’t magically perfect because of it. Baby steps, guys.

  13. withoutscene, on May 11th, 2009 at 2:09 pm Said:

    It’s clear that they forgot to consult the TONS of pictures, widely available through the internet, of Beth Ditto in her undies.

    Also, I think the idea that they could not somehow properly engineer a “functioning” fat doll is ludicrous. We have space toilets. We have nano-robots. I’m pretty sure a fat Ditto doll is not beyond the scientific imagination.

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