Battle to be the real Barbie: How two Barbaras lay claim to inspiring the doll Margot Robbie plays
Alamy Stock PhotoBut the battle over who is the real Barbie, and who was her creator, exploded into the open in 1994.,” taking credit for naming the doll after her daughter — and almost entirely ignoring the role of Jack Ryan, whose name is on the Barbie patent.
Ryan, the brilliant former Raytheon missile designer for the Pentagon who designed Barbie from head to toe as Mattel’s vice president of design, was practically not mentioned.
Handler staked her claim to be Barbie’s sole creator in her memoir, and in 1999 was at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate 40 years of the doll.Barbara Handler Segal has called herself the original Barbie, and in 2002 provided the handprints for Barbie’s place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Also in the movie is Ryan Gosling, playing Ken, of Ken Doll fame. Handler said Ken — it was always Barbie and Ken in the play world — was based on her son.
“My father was dead and wasn’t around to dispute anything that Ruth had written in her book, and it was very frustrating to me and other members of the Ryan family. What she wrote was overwhelming and such a shock. It was all bulls–t.” But the storybook marriage ended in divorce. Ryan had been a swinger who threw orgies in his faux castle in Los Angeles.
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