Memoirs: Playing with Barbie dolls 24 Articles

by Jenifer Rose

As a little girl, dolls and tea sets were the furthest thing from my mind. I much preferred to play with my cowboys and Indians, or be outside riding my horse or seeing what I could find walking in the woods or up the cre...read more

by Patti Morgan

I grew up in a house with two brothers who were ten and eleven years older then I was. As you can probably imagine, playing Barbie wasn't one of their favorite things to do with their younger sister. It didn't take me long...read more

by J. Wilson Hopkins

Barbie and I became acquainted on Christmas morning of 1968. I was a lonely six year old whose parents moved a lot due to work and making friends at school became more and more difficult. Finally, I just quit trying to...read more

by Patricia Coffman

Barbie and I go way back. In fact, we were both born in 1959. I idolized Barbie all through my childhood, hoping that someday I would be as beautiful as her. I wanted to have a tiny little waist like hers, that perfect upt...read more

by Gina De La Garza

When I was little I honest to god wanted to be a boy. I had a pair of Osh Kosh B'Gosh overalls that I never took off. I was often found screaming while my parents fought to take the smelly things off of me. I didn't unders...read more

by E. Rae Fallesen

When I look back at my Barbie splattered past I can only laugh at all the strange things my sister and I did with our dolls. I remember clearly all the joy of anticipating a new addition to our barbie family, the disappoin...read more

by Shawna Blake

There isn't a time in my life that I don't remember playing with Barbie's. Barbie dolls are the absolute perfect toy for young girls, and when we were kids, it was certainly no different. Although, back then, there weren't...read more

by Sheila-Ann Bender

Since my dad worked for an oil company when I was growing up, the west Texas oilfields caused us to move around a lot. It always took a while to make new friends, so my Barbie doll became my one consistent playmate in lif...read more

by Elyse Williams

My older sister and I would spend hours upon hours in our basement playing with Barbies. We each had our main Barbie, her siblings and cousins, and of course Ken. Barbie was very a very lucky doll because we each had a co...read more

by Erin Yorke

Barbies were without question my favorite dolls growing up, though I would never have called them dolls- those were for babies. Between ages 3 and 10, I got at least one every Christmas. My first Barbies were ones my mothe...read more

by Ellen Porter

Midge came first. Then Barbie. The Malibu dolls were so popular when I was a preteen, I had to have one of those. I got PJ. And my parents wanted me to have some cultural sensitivity, so my foursome of Barbie dolls was rou...read more

by Amy Obuch-Thiry

My first memory of my first Barbie is of pushing the button on her back to make her right eye wink at you. She had on bright blue eye shadow and I can remember a matching blue jumper for her. She was the only Barbie I had,...read more

by KW Jordan

I played with a large variety of toys as a small child, but my Barbie and Ken dolls were my favorite toys. Why, you might ask? Because the possibilities were absolutely endless and it usually wasn't very hard to get my old...read more

by Mary Bubbins

When I was growing up, I was an only child and had few friends in school. I was a shy child, we lived in the country and at the age of seven, my father left to go and explore his own desires. For the next few years, my mom...read more

by Paula Deseure

The first toy that I ever remember loving and playing with was a Barbie doll. I can't tell you how many dolls I owned at the peak of my Barbie loving, and the number of Barbie accessories is even more innumerable. There ...read more

by Kristi Buckel

Barbie dolls were the subject of much interest and angst when I was younger. I spent many a fond time entertaining myself in my bedroom with my three-tiered cardboard Barbie house; it even had an elevator. The odd twist ...read more

by life rodriguez

I remember my first Barbie Doll. The year must have been 1980. We purchased her from Alexanders Department Store. This Barbie had long blond hair but she was tan, which was perfect for me because I am Puerto Rican and tan....read more

by Ashlin Wemple

The friends that were always there for me growing up, were my Barbie's. Those perfectly shaped bodies with their silky hair, the kind that I knew I would never have. They would never judge me, never look down on me and of ...read more

by Faye Millan

Barbie, Skipper, Courtney, and friends- all of us have our childhood memories of adventures lived through our Barbie dolls. The dramas, the fashionable apparel, the three-story house, and the miniature accessories that acc...read more

by Judith Goldberg

I can remember spending endless hours next door with my friend, Sandra, playing with her Barbie dolls. I had a few, but nothing compared to her collection. She had so many accessories to choose from. I always thought th...read more