{"id":219356,"date":"2026-01-06T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219356\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:55:08","slug":"kylie-minogue-barbie-doll-slammed-by-fans-who-say-doll-looks-nothing-like-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219356\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Minogue Barbie doll slammed by fans, who say doll looks nothing like her"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FansFans said the Barbie doll of Kylie Minogue looked nothing like the singer. Photo \/ X<\/p>\n

The doll shows Minogue in the scene-stealing, figure-hugging ensemble from her 2023 Padam Padam music video.<\/p>\n

The doll is dressed head-to-toe in bright red, with thigh-high boots, a bodysuit, leather gloves and a dramatic cape.<\/p>\n

The doll\u2019s face looked ashen in images online, with red lipstick and eye detailing.<\/p>\n

Several fans said the figurine, which sells for more than $100, looked more like Britney Spears, Faith Hill or the American drag queen Katya.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo offence to the creators\/modellers but … they\u2019ve given her a somewhat belly pooch and thicker calves?\u201d one fan wrote.<\/p>\n

One Instagram user wrote the red outfit \u201cdoesn\u2019t wow me, and without any variation in tone or texture, the whole doll ends up feeling pretty flat and boring\ud83d\ude1e\u201c.<\/p>\n

Mattel acknowledged the Aussie icon\u2019s \u201cglittering\u201d career in a biography on its online store.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn so many ways she stands alone in the pop arena \u2013 a superstar artist whose constant reinventions and explorations keep her firmly rooted in the present whilst defining and celebrating much of our collective past.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KylieKylie Minogue poses with her Barbie doll figurine. Fans said the dolls lacked any resemblance to the Aussie singer. Photo \/ Mattel<\/p>\n

The Barbie Role Model series was launched in conjunction with the 2018 International Women\u2019s Day in response to mothers who felt their daughters did not have positive female role models to look up to.<\/p>\n

New Zealand entrepreneur Brianne West is listed as a former role model<\/a> for creating her zero-waste beauty company Ethique.<\/p>\n

Actors Helen Mirren and Viola Davis, and singer Shania Twain are listed as recent role models with their own custom dolls.<\/p>\n

Minogue hit the top of the UK charts last week<\/a> with her first ever No 1 Christmas single XMAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans said the Barbie doll of Kylie Minogue looked nothing like the singer. Photo \/ X The doll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3050,39805,36031,3595,5426,68189,156,9517,132252,1364,7568,22081,13840,663,27247,9381,111,139,16546,69,1523,132253,5659,2687,41401,49519,1299],"class_list":["post-219356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-absolutely","tag-barbie","tag-bears","tag-by","tag-created","tag-doll","tag-entertainment","tag-fans","tag-fuming","tag-her","tag-honour","tag-kylie","tag-like","tag-looks","tag-minogue","tag-musical","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nothing","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-resemblance","tag-say","tag-saying","tag-slammed","tag-superstar","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}