“Normal Barbie” For years, the ultra-slim measurements and proportions of the widely popular Barbie doll have introduced women to an unattainable ideal at a very young age. Hoping to demonstrate instead that “average is beautiful,” artist Nickolay Lamm recently designed a Normal Barbie (right), using the CDC measurements of the average 19-year-old American woman. Normal Barbie turns out to be shorter, curvier, and bustier than the doll sitting on store shelves around the world.