Mattel Introduces New Diabetes Barbie

Not The Bee ^ | July 09, 2025 | Cardinal Pritchard

[Red Badger]

This is Not The Bee, not to be confused with The Babylon Bee.

Not a joke. A real thing. From Mattel:

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today that Barbie® is debuting the first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes (T1D). This addition to the line enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie and encourages doll play that extends beyond a child's own lived experience, thereby fostering a greater sense of inclusion and empathy - all pillars of the Barbie brand's mission.

And Diabetes Barbie comes with all the goods she needs:

An absolute parody and I cannot believe the boys over at The Babylon Bee didn't think of this one first.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ghettohookerbarbie; methaddictbarbie; notthebee; transathletebarbie

[Olog-hai]

JFTR, that is not the doll; this is. I did not investigate the Pop Base account on X either.

[fidelis]

So is it “not a joke”, or is it a parody? Not clear from the post above.

[PGR88]

I still prefer "Single Mom Barbie."

[Lizavetta]

Fat diabetics are typically type 2.

Type 1s are juvenile diabetes and have nothing to do with one's weight.

[Red Badger]

https://corporate.mattel.com/news/barbie-introduces-first-ever-barbie-doll-with-type-1-diabetes-to-expand-representation-and-inspire-more-children

[z3n]

[Dr. Sivana]

They could make a Barbie that looks like Mary Tyler Moore playing Laura Petrie in Dick Van Dyke, and that would be realistic enough.

[DouglasKC]

Single Mom is spot on.

[FamiliarFace]

Looks more like type 2 diabetes Barbie.

[Red Badger]

The real one is skinny..............

[tumblindice]

Read somewhere that if a woman had Barbie’s proportions, she would be nine feet tall.

[Red Badger]

When I was a kid, diabetes was practically unknown in my schools.

Only one kid had it in that entire school of probably 500 students...............

[Starboard]

LOL. Too funny. Especially the “3+” rating.

[Secret Agent Man]

A type 1 diabetic is not an automatically obese person.

The type 1 diabetes folks I’ve known weren’t obese. Really if anything, the type 2 dibetes folks have a better chance at being overweight/obese because they wind up burning out their beta cells from their regular high refined carb/sugar diets.

[Secret Agent Man]

Is that “Mudshark Momma” from Mattel?

[Red Badger]

Yes, if the human race somehow offs itself and some future alien archaeologists come to research our planet and find Barbie Dolls, they will think we were a race of giants...............

[Flag_This]

"Looks more like type 2 diabetes Barbie."

Spot on. My son was diagnosed with type I when he was nine. He wasn't an once overweight. Type I is an autoimmune disease where the insulin-creating cells are destroyed by your own immune system. Type II is entirely different.

[RummyChick]

this morbidly obese woman has 9 kids and is 28 years old. She says she is pregnant with triplets.

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1942696987385815180

This video shows what she cooks for her kids for breakfast.

The EBT videos hack me off. I saw one with several carts of groceries and frozen pizza. By the time they get out of that store it will likely be almost unthawed.

[SamuraiScot]

I think the problem most Barbies have is anorexia nervosa--which is of course a physical ailment (skeletal skinny-ness) caused by a mental one (a desire to starve oneself). I want to see reeeelly skinny Barbie at the psychiatrist, on the couch, with a guide pamphlet in the box, telling how not to eat weird, and what to do about it if you do.

(And not how to try and change your sex, either. . .)