Little girl’s plea to Mattel to bring "bald Barbie" to Australia
Jordyn Miller was diagnosed with cancer at the age of five and had to go through chemotherapy. When she lost her hair, Jordyn was sadly bullied at school because she looked “different”.
Now the brave, strong eight-year-old is petitioning Mattel to bring “bald Barbie” down under.
Last week the world saw the introduction of a new collection of dolls set to include a range of Barbies with different body shapes, heights and skin colours to reflect a more modern society.
There was an introduction to an “Ella” doll, this limited-edition bald Barbie was distributed to kids with cancer in the United States last year. But the brave young cancer survivor thinks it shouldn’t just stop there. Jordyn wants the doll to stick around and make her more widely available.
Her petition has more than 7,000 signatures and it details Jordyn’s feelings about feeling excluded and how there was no doll she could relate to as they all had long hair.
Jordyn has now been cancer-free for three years and strives to make a difference for all sick girls out there, who want to be able to relate to something and not made out to feel “isolated” and “different.”
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