Barbies are a toy that I and most girls (I’m assuming) grow out of at an early age. For me, once I discovered I could pick out my own clothes (not just Barbie’s), I ditched the doll and starting finding my own style identity. One 24 year old girl in the UK has not quite hit the growing-out-of-Barbie stage yet. She has been collecting Barbies since she was three and has now transformed herself into her very own ‘human Barbie’.
[Via: DailyMail]
Charlotte Hothman, a 24 year old promotions girl has spent around $20,000 dollars on cosmetic enhancements to make herself look like Barbie. She had a nose job, collagen in her lips and dyed her hair blonde to transform herself into a human Barbie. She told The Sun: “I told the clinic I would love to look like Barbie. It was really painful. My face was bruised afterwards and it took weeks for the swelling to go down. But when I took the bandages off it was well worth it. Then I dyed my hair blonde. It’s completely changed by appearance and I think it looks pretty good. Some people think it’s a little weird, but I think it’s great.” Check out the gallery to see her before Barbie photos!
Charlotte has an entire room in her Manchester home that is dedicated to her Barbie collection. She admits that her obsession with Barbie has been a roadblock in her love-life but she is sure she will find a man that loves “her and her Barbies”.
What do you think of the ‘Human Barbie’? Did you idealize Barbie as a child?




rose / 948 posts
sigh
sunflower / 291 posts
Wow, Barbie’s nose looks terrible in real life.
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If she wants to look like Barbie, she has a long way to go.
When I was a kid, I had all the blond, blue-eyed Barbies. I honestly thought I was going to grow up to be this statuesque, blond, blue-eyed girl. lol! Little did I know I would grow up to be this short, dark-eyed, black haired Asian woman.
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She looks nothing like Barbie and she was prettier before.
rose / 802 posts
What’s so sad about this is that she looks nothing at all like Barbie – and was gorgeous before. This woman is delusional – and could probably benefit from some serious therapy.
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i think she is quite cute but her concept is a bit.. wrong.
hydrangea / 89 posts
Whoa that nose!
….Anyway it’s basically it’s a woman who just dyed her hair blonde, threw on some pink clothes and makeup. I’m failing to see the huge transformation.
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That’s pretty creepy…
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she looks nothing like Barbie she’s not plastic enough
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aren’t barbies supposed to be pretty?
hydrangea / 76 posts
nice try…
daisy / 599 posts
She looks more like Lisa Kudrow.
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@MissAshley - LOVE HER!
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she doesn’t look like a Barbie I know a bunch of college girls that look like that in my campus. I think it took a roadblock on her love life because every room is filled with barbies or she openly admits she is obsessed with barbies after every convo
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she’s just blonde and in a pink dress. Walk down the street and you’ll see plenty of girls looking like her, I don’t see the shock. She looks normal to me.
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She doesn’t look a thinggggg like Barbie.
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wow everyone can calm the fuck down. She looks like a human, obviously. Just because she wants to look like an unattainable ideal doesn’t mean you need to bash what features she does have.
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LOL.
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She doesn’t look any prettier after the surgeries. And I don’t mean that in a negative way, just sayin’.
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She looks good with her own color of hair and her curls. I think, she has done stupid things because have too much money.
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I think she looks fine. Not necessarily better or worst than before, just different. I fail to see the issue with getting a nose job and dying her hair blonde as barbie as inspiration. As long as she isn’t planning anymore extreme surgery, it’s not that big of a deal, IMO.
She doesn’t look like Barbie because to actually look like Barbie would make her look really fucking weird and would involve extreme surgery beyond a nose job, a dye job, and a pretty pink dress.
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I think that is a sort of extreme case of being a fan of something and I wonder why she wasn’t happy the way she was…I mean just because I like the peanuts I do no want to LOOK like Charlie Brown either…but I’ve seen worse cases. She still looks human and pretty, luckily.
daisy / 505 posts
I don’t think she looks that bad. Just like any other dyed-blonde woman trying to look like a teenager
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she looks pretty normal to me!
hydrangea / 88 posts
Nope, not quite there yet. She still has to somehow enlarge her head to be half the size of her abdomen.
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I always seem play the devil’s advocate. I like her nose after the nose job better than before (at least that picture of her before…there were lots of things wrong there, though). And its not like thousands upon thousands of other women dye their hair blonde. So…she looks pretty normal….just a girl who got a nose job…and I think her after pictures are much prettier than her before picture. Once again..that could be because of how bad the before picture is. Oh well…whatever she wants to do with her life.
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If this is what she wants to do, it’s fine with me. She doesn’t seem like a bad person, just a little bizarre and likely has some self image issues. She looks pretty cute! I’m glad to see that her Barbie self isn’t tanned orange, that’s where most people go wrong.
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She doesn’t really look like Barbie though. Blonde hair and a pink dress is her idea of Barbie I guess. Lets just hope she doesn’t go for more drastic measures of obtaining Barbie’s looks :/
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I think this girl should try to get a refund. She’s fugly!
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She looks like the average woman…her cosmetic work is subtle, but it is a lot of money to be spending on fixing yourself when you looked perfectly fine before! Nothing wrong for liking Barbie and collecting the dolls and even dressing like her…but idolizing a doll and going under the knife to look like one only means one thing to me: mental issues that requires some therapy.
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looks fine to me nothing seems changed like that other woman who looks ridicoulas like an older version of an insane older barbie.now thats outrageously wrong.this girl looks ok and is very much pretty herself.nothing over the top i think.
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She just look likes she needs to be a redhead, like Lindsey Lohan, the blonde hair doesn’t suit her features… meh.
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She was prettier before. She’s still pretty, although she is a whack job.
daisy / 555 posts
she doesn’t look like Barbie to me
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Oh man, she’s gonna need more plastic surgery because Barbie’s nose doesn’t look like that anymore.
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This is bullshit.
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If she’s truly happy with herself, then whatevs.
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Yeah. I really thought my hair could possibly turn naturally blonde one day… that my chest would explode into C cups. LOL No. I’m a little asian woman
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She doesn’t look like Barbie… pretty, but not Barbie
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She looks awful. Someone should have explained that if Barbie were a real life person, she’d be doubled over from her too-small waist trying to support her double Ds, her ankles would snap in half from the position they’re in & her arches would fall & her feet would kill her by the time she was in her early to middle 30s. Wonder if she would want to look Barbie so badly then? LOL.
Regardless of the fact she’s not looking exactly like a Mattel Barbie..it’s still very sad to see her self-esteem is based on a fucking plastic doll. I can’t believe their are people on here saying 1. she looks good & 2. that there’s “nothing wrong” with the fact shes done this.
There’s plenty wrong. She’s some how got a warped version of how a woman should look. Which is why Mattel, coincidentally has been under fire before in the past: the way they make idealistic “women” look for little girls to play with. The whole big boobs, small waist, high heels etc. & whether Mattel realizes it or not, it damages little girls self-esteem & creates body image issues. All at a tender age where that crap shouldn’t even be happening yet. I don’t think the reason why she’s having issues finding a man is due to the fact she collects Barbie dolls…but rather the fact she’s trying to make herself into one! Can you say crazy? Can you say way too low self-esteem? No guy wants to deal with that – No guy wants to fuck wannabe cold hard plastic.
Real men want real women.
sunflower / 480 posts
She’s not even that photogenic. I’ve seen prettier girls in high school whom I would have claimed they were “Barbies”.
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she looks NORMAL, which should be a good thing.
peony / 2 posts
@Digital_Angel21@xanga - She spent over $20, 000 in surgery. That’s more than just a nose job and dyed hair.
peony / 2 posts
@syringesofglitter_x@xanga - Please, get over yourself. I agree that her self esteem is warped and based off of something unattainable, but even if you don’t hate her for it, you sure as hell try hard to make it seem that way. Just because she is trying to be pretty for the wrong reasons, doesn’t mean she isn’t pretty. And it doesn’t mean we should be condescending and hateful to another human being for it.
The fact that you are SO angry and SO hurtful towards her delves deeply into your own self esteem.
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@sherryberry Wow..out of all the people on Xanga that have disagreed with my personal opinion on these blogs; you are by far the most immature & bitchy. I do believe that most of my so called “anger” was directed towards Mattel for creating such a sad & unhealthy body image towards young girls with Barbies. Also, I did say she looks awful – she does, in fact you admit she has a warped body image perception. I don’t “hate” her..I don’t even know her LOL, but does that mean I can’t be disgusted by what she’s doing to herself? She would probably be a very pretty young girl if she weren’t trying to destroy herself. Just because you mixed up my disgust & horror at this for being hatred isn’t on me – that’s on
you.
Grow up & get over yourself.
p.s. I actually have really high self-esteem lol, which is why I don’t try to look like a fictional plastic character. I think trying to look like one, speaks volumes on theirs. Also, someone who can’t understand where another is coming from & tells them to “get over themselves” also speaks volumes…
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@sherryberry - well, whatever she got done, she still looks fine and not necessarily like someone who has had plastic surgery if you never saw her before picture. I’m not a proponent of plastic surgery at all, but once the person gets it done, why hate? It’s not extreme enough to cause an alarm about her sanity.