VINTAGE GROWING UP SKIPPER DOLL FROM 1975

I would!!!!!!!🗣️‼️

I just watched the new Barbie movie with my 5 year old daughter. She has almost as big of a Barbie collection as I did as a child. I’m 32 years old and we both LOVED the movie for very different reasons lol. I laughed, cried and reminisced so hard. She giggled and of course admired Barbie and said she wants to be the President of Barbie Land some day 🩷
I found this video because I just had to search for Growing Up Skipper after seeing her in the movie as a discontinued doll. I seriously love the diverse dolls. There really weren’t very many growing up in the 90’s. In fact, 98% of my Barbies were tall with blonde hair, blue eyes and a thin waist. As a little girl who was short & stout, with dark hair and eyes, I can say that having Barbie dolls that looked more like me would have helped a lot with my self-esteem at a young age. I’ve obviously grown and changed since then and I 100% love myself and all of my flaws regardless of whether anyone else does. Now that I’m a mama, I never want my child or any child for that matter to feel like what makes them different or how their bodies change as they grow makes them any less beautiful, because it doesn’t!
I was so excited when they came out with the “Curvy” Barbie, as they call them…I call them regular-sized? 😅
I love the dolls that show little girls and boys that everyone is different and that is perfectly fine!
My dad is in a wheelchair due to a motorcycle accident, so for Christmas he got my daughter the Ken doll with his wheelchair & ramp. She also has an amputee Barbie, many curvy Barbies, a short Barbie and a long haired ken. I would love to be able to find her a doll with vitiligo or a bald Barbie.
I’m ALL for a Puberty Skipper or Cellulite Barbie, pregnant Barbie, senior Barbie, maybe even one that has tattoos. I think that a little person or Down’s Syndrome doll would be so wonderful to see as well.
They should do this with Chelsea too, because we are all different in our very own, very beautiful ways. Whether we were born that way or we became this way.

Moral of this story, I would TOTALLY buy a Growing Up Skipper doll if I ever found one!
Also, be kind, don’t judge and love yourself! 🥰

Wow

I had that doll growing up and still have her. A big hit with the grown ups at Christmas lol.

I honestly don’t see anything wrong with her. Girls grow up and develop 🍈🍈s that’s just how our bodies are supposed to function

my grandmother bought her for me to take to school for show in tell . she was my favorite doll.

how does it work tho

I would buy this doll if I knew where to get one.😊

This what is wrong with society. we are brainwashed to think this is "taboo" or "weird". nothing wrong with woman's body. we should embrace them, not disgusted by them

I had one ! And my grandmother hated it!

No

I HAD this doll and I loved it. 😂

My mom had one that she passed down to me when I was little 😊

"We've had reports of dislocated shoulders since the toy's release, so kids, don't try this at home."
--Harry Gottlieb as Nate Shapiro in the first You Don't Know Jack game from 1995

I had that doll! 😂😂😂

I had her! Can’t remember what happened to her.

I had this doll in the 1970s! And still turned out with only moderately-debilitating body image issues 🤣

I’d love to see inside, it’s a clever design; spring loaded, with gears and rods and two little boobies to poke through the torso.

Pretty intricate for a toy from 1975, it’s held up vey well. Plastic degrades, even many 80s toys are fragile by now. Soft plastic does better, but it can still get messed up. This must have been tucked away in a basement box for 45 years or something.

I had her growing up. We used to swear that her faced changed too when she “grew up” 😂😂😂😂 I wish I still had her. 😢

A lot of women would by this doll because puberty happens to everyone and its less scary when you've been playing with a doll that also went through the same thing. I am too young to have had a growing up skipper as a kid, but if they had still made them my mother would have 100% bought one for me to have. If we can have a pregnancy barbie with removable baby, I don't see why we can't have a doll that goes through puberty a little.

I would definitely buy this doll, but not even for me, for my mom instead because she would always tell me about having one as a kid but once she and her sister went off to college my grandma got rid of all their dolls

Anyone else here is from the Barbie movie ?

Noncey

The Barbie Movie brought me here~ it was shown on the movie

I had one of those when I was a kid. Loved her! Wish I would have kept all my barbies!

I would have it😭 its so campy lmfao. Came here from the movie btw😂

I had that doll and I loved her!!!!’❤

I did have that skipper. I thought it was so cool

I had this Skipper!!!

My mom told me about this, because she had one as a child, and this is the video I came across... My thoughts exactly!

I not only WOULD buy this doll, I DID buy this doll. I was visiting my father in Los Angeles as I did every summer (typical 70s child of divorce) and I BEGGED him for this doll. He refused the high price tag - maybe $5?? but I found her second hand at a swap meet for less than $1. Wish I had kept her apparently she's worth a pretty penny now.

This is the one doll that I had for a minute in my own childhood that I would buy again if I ever saw one. This and the Barbie Country Camper to put her in, like I did back then.

I asked for one for Christmas

I had this doll😂 I don’t remember what happened to her. I would definitely buy her again.

I had her and it was so fun to twist her arm.

I got her back in the 70’s and I still have her!!

I had this doll and loved it!!

yes! i just bought one. I had her when i was a kid.

I have 2 that I saved from childhood! They were my favorites!❤

I love vintage 1960s and 70s dolls from my childhood that were created with ingenuity and are interactive! I would buy her!

I've never seen this doll, so cute! Thank you for sharing!! I hope more people would get into dolls again with the new Barbie movie trailers coming out, it looks like it would be a fun movie, it reminds me of Life in the Dreamhouse which I used to watch with my sister 💗

A Friend of mine who is older than I, actually own this "Growing Up Skipper Doll" and my Friend would crack up laughing 😂😂😁😁when she talked about her, "growing breasts by just twisting her arm"😁😁😂😂😂😂!!! Although I have had many Barbie Dolls growing up and I have saved some of them, I do not think my Late Dad and Late Grandfather would have let me own one🙃😐🙄😒. However, as an Adult, I would probably buy one just for fun and laughs😃😃😁😁!!! Thank you Christopher and Rachel for sharing this really comical Skipper Doll😁😁😃😃💖💖💖💖💖!!!

I’m laughing so hard…I bet the hoo-hah was like the pregnant dolls. I don’t think I’d list her first to buy!

Luv ❤️ 😍 I would buy her😊 Super Cool 😎

I had one, I like that she went from nothing to wow! I would buy one again.

Wonderfoul 😂

I think I had her!

Only a man could have imagined that.
My favorite Skippers are from Western (my first) to California (dream), you guessed it my last.

That is hysterical 😂🎉