I am Barbie

Jul 9, 2002

0h 29m

★ 0.0

I'm a Barbie, girl!

Overview

Cindy Jackson has fulfilled her dream. She has spent over 100,000 euros and had herself transformed. From an ugly, clumsy Central American farmer's daughter, as she herself says, into a living Barbie doll.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Intercon Production

I am Barbie Trailers

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Cast

Cindy Jackson

Cindy Jackson's Sister

Gloria Keepers

The "Living Barbie Doll"

Angela Vollrath

Miles "Ken"-dall

Tim Whitifield

Twenty-eight of my family members and relatives have been operated at least once by my brother who is a plastic surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Having grown up as a 'work-in-progress' where the premise, myself, was constantly questioned, as an adult I had to ask my family: could that premise be changed?

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6.7

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0.0

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6.7

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5.3

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