Barbie's age has fluctuated; early on, Mattel described her as 19 years old, but she is often shown as an older character in adult careers. The first episode of Life in the Dreamhouse even jokes that she is over 43 years old. As of 2021, Barbie has three younger sisters:
The prime demographic for Barbie dolls are girls aged between 3 and 12 years old, according to market research across the years.
Age and gender
The only doll whose age is definitively known is Chelsea, who turns six during Happy Birthday Chelsea. Skipper appears to be between 14 and 16 years old, while Stacie falls somewhere in between her two sisters.
In the animated series "Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse," Barbie is portrayed as a young adult, typically in her twenties. However, her specific age is not explicitly mentioned in the show.
She is 6 years old. Chelsea is blond haired and blue eyed like her big sister Barbie. Her hair is usually tied into 2 pigtails and she wears a blue & white shirt and a pink skirt. Chelsea loves animal and anything cheery and colorful.
Teen Skipper's packaging revealed that she is now "16 years old". If she was nine when she was introduced (and she was), when Barbie was billed as the "Famous Teen-Age Fashion Doll", then Barbie could not realistically be considered a teenager any longer.
This dollhouse wasn't the typical pink, plastic dream house made by Mattel, but a more traditional looking house that was "Barbie-sized." Among the rooms was a nursery for a Barbie baby, which posed a problem: Barbie is technically not married and, technically, she can never have a baby.
Calculating Barbie's age from her manufacturing debut, the first Barbie doll is now over 64 years old. Considering that Barbie was created as a 19-year-old doll, she could technically be up to 83 years old. However, in the past, Mattel has reportedly said that Barbie is frozen in time at age 19.
She comes from a large family.
Barbie has seven siblings. Skipper was introduced in 1964, twins Todd and Tutti were around from 1965 to 1971, Stacie hit shelves in 1990, Kelly was sold from 1994 to 2010 and Chelsea was introduced in 2011 as a replacement for Kelly.
Chelsea is Barbie's 7 year old little sister. Chelsea is a small child sized doll with blue eyes and blonde hair, like her sister Barbie. In animation, she usually has pigtails.
Children usually begin to play with dolls at around 18-24 months old, when they start to engage in pretend play. As experts would tell you, there is no age limit for dolls. It may seem unusual in this day and age, but several 12-year-olds still play with dolls.
Children love playing with dolls. Dolls are their first playmates, and thus this friendship tends to go on for a while, especially for girls. There is no specific age to stop playing with, or loving, dolls. It honestly matters on the child's perspective of dolls and how much they are attached to dolls.
Kenneth Sean "Ken" Carson is a fashion doll introduced by American toy company Mattel in 1961 as the counterpart of Barbie, who was introduced two years earlier.
In 1963, Mattel released its third doll in the Barbie line: Barbie's best friend, Midge.
In the nineties and the early part of the first millennial decade, Barbie had a toddler sister named Kelly. She looked like the doll on the left, only blonde and blue-eyed. Fast-forward to the current year, and Kelly is gone. She's morphed into a little girl named Chelsea (right).
Barbie and Ken felt it was “time to spend some quality time apart” with Arons hinting that Ken's reluctance to put a ring on it may have played a part in their breakup. Still, the two swore the breakup was amicable and they would remain friends.
As experts would tell you, there is no age limit for dolls. It may seem unusual in this day and age, but several 12-year-olds still play with dolls. And in a world where the internet is widespread, this may be a good thing.
Barbie, formally known as “Barbara Millicent Roberts,” was born in 1959, which would technically make her 63 years old — except for the small fact that she was born as a 19-year-old. Yep, that's right: The first ever Barbie was officially 19 years old, which would make her age closer to 82-83 years old.
The iconic doll that has inspired little girls and boys across the globe for decades has officially turned 60 years old.
That she didn't go on to become a mother was revolutionary. Barbie offered an exciting alternative to the 1950s model stay-at-home mom.
The original Midge, waistline skinny as can be, was first introduced in the early 1960s. In 2002 she was pregnant, the subject of controversy, and was pulled from store shelves after parents complained the doll, packaged alone without family members, sent the wrong message.
The Chelsea doll is Barbie's younger sister and was launched in 2011. At age seven, she's meant to be the youngest sister of the Barbie family and was designed specifically for younger children. The Chelsea doll line also includes a doll in a wheelchair.
Kelly/Chelsea Roberts (1995–2010 as Kelly, 2011–present as Chelsea): Barbie's youngest sister, approximately 6 years old, then later 7 years old. Chelsea loves the color pink and has blonde hair and blue eyes like her older sister Barbie.
If you're a parent to a girl beneath the age of 13, odds are good that you're familiar with Barbie's family, consisting of eldest child Barbara "Barbie" Millicent Roberts and her younger sisters Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea.
Kevin is a discontinued character. He was Skipper's boyfriend kevin was a somewhat successful character in the mid 90s with several dolls released from the pizza party line to the pets one. He was also known to have the large comic book cartoon eyes as the skipper doll had during these years.