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News: Bratz dolls go bald in support of children's illnesses

Children dealing with hair loss as a result of cancer treatment, or other illnesses such as alopecia, will now have a bald doll to look up to. MGA Entertainment Canada has announced it will release a line of hairless True Hope Bratz dolls, available at Toys"R"Us, Canada this summer.

MGA and Toys"R"Us will each donate $1 from the sale of each doll to Starlight Children's Foundation.

The move to create a bald doll came after a Facebook group petitioning for a bald Barbie to be made reached 150,000 supporters. The Facebook group Beautiful and Bald Barbie was created in December 2011 with the hope that a bald Barbie doll would help to reduce the shame and stigma felt by children and women dealing with hair loss.

"We realized there was a real need for this doll," says Diane Goveia-Gordon, president of MGA Entertainment Canada, who hopes the creation of these dolls will bring some degree of normalcy and acceptance to children who are affected by hair loss.

Mattel, the maker of Barbie, has also said they will create a hairless doll, and has plans to donate them to U.S. and Canadian children's hospitals and charities in 2013.

What do you think? Should more toys be made to recognize children's illnesses?

Posted by Melissa Greer onTuesday, May 15th, 2012 - 4:33pm

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Now THIS is a great story, admidst all the other celeb garbage every day. Thank you for making me good this a.m. I remember in the U.K. (and we're talking MANY years ago) - I won't let on HOW long!! I was a doll girl to be sure, used to fall out of bed because I had so many in there with me! I had this one, very black doll called Mandy - one of those big old pot ones they used to make! together with all my blonde, blue eyed ones. I'd never seen one at the time -can't remember who got it for me (I'm Caucasion by the way). Loved that doll so much - maybe that's why I'm so non-prejudiced in my adult life! I insisted when my younger sister was born that her name be Mandy....and it is. Diversity is what it's all about. I LOVE THIS IDEA - sick kids can now finally have a buddy.

Submitted by Pirjo on Sat, 2012-05-19 9:58am.