Barbie's New Look

Guest: Laura Choate, PhD, Professor of Counselor Education at Louisiana State University  This month Mattel plans to release its new line of Barbie dolls with tall, petite, and curvy body types. The toy company hopes the diverse body types – along with new skin tones and hair textures introduced last year – will more closely reflect the world girls live in today. Barbie sales have been dropping in recent years.