*Contains mile Barbie spoilers*
Ashley Graham has spoken out about her reaction to the cellulite joke that runs throughout the Barbie movie, after unsuccessfully pressing Marvel to include it in her Barbie doll.
In 2016, the 35-year-old model collaborated with the firm to create her own plus-size Barbie, which was fashioned in her image and had no thigh gap, as she had requested.
Showing off the gorgeous doll on The Today Show earlier this month to hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, the mum-of-three explained: ‘She’s got thick thighs, she’s got a round butt, she has lower belly fat…’
‘The one thing I did ask for was cellulite, but they couldn’t do cellulite,’ she added.
Ashley has expressed her ecstatic reaction to the fact that cellulite is a continuing motif in Barbie, after Margot Robbie’s titular doll panics about obtaining it after waking up with flat feet and ‘irrepressible thoughts of death’ one morning.
When it’s determined that Margot’s Barbie needs to travel to the real world from Barbieland to find out who is messing with her, her fellow Barbies give her a ‘Bon voyage to reality and good luck restoring the membrane that separates our world from theirs, so you don’t get cellulite!’ party.
Of course, by the conclusion of the film, Barbie is more than ready to accept her cellulite, as she should be.
Ashley mentioned that she met Margot before to the film’s premiere, which she was overjoyed about, especially after their talk.
‘I totally had a fangirl moment, walked straight up to the front, and I was like, “Hi, Margot Robbie. I am Ashley Graham. I just want to let you know there was a Barbie made in my likeness”,’ she told People.
Describing her doll to Margot, she added: ‘It has boobs. It has hips. It has an ass. It has round arms. It has lower belly fat, but the only thing it doesn’t have is cellulite, and I wish it did. Are you putting cellulite in the movie?’
Ashley recalled Margot chuckling before informing her that there was “an inside joke throughout the entire movie about cellulite” – but she wouldn’t go into further detail.
So Ashley ‘waited months’ for the film’s release to view it and uncover the commentary for herself.
‘Sure enough, I went and saw it and I was like, “Good,” because you have to talk about it – I have it, we have it, it is what it is. And Barbie never had it. Ever. So, I’m glad they talked about it and addressed it in their way.’
Ashley previously stated, “If I had have had a Barbie that looked like my body type growing up, I don’t think my mind would have been as traumatised.”
‘And I wouldn’t have looked at myself in the mirror and thought, “Why do I have this and she has that?”‘
Her remarks come after the forthcoming Barbie film won plaudits for its cast’s diversity, which was crucial to director Greta Gerwig and star actor and producer Margot Robbie.
In fact, Margot stated before accepting the part that she did not want to be the only one playing Barbie in the film.
She told Time: ‘If [Mattel] hadn’t made that change to have a multiplicity of Barbies, I don’t think I would have wanted to attempt to make a Barbie film.
‘I don’t think you should say, “This is the one version of what Barbie is, and that’s what women should aspire to be and look like and act like”.’
Barbie is out in cinemas now.
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