Barbie launches first doll with Type 1 diabetes, glucose monitor
UNITED STATES, JUL 8 – Mattel’s new Barbie, featuring a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump, aims to empower the 2 million Americans with type 1 diabetes and promote inclusivity, company says.
- Barbie is the brand's first doll with type 1 diabetes, launched at the Breakthrough T1D Children's Congress in Washington.
- Her blood glucose reading is 130 milligrams of sugar per deciliter of blood, which is in the normal range.
- This doll represents type 1 diabetes accurately, marking 65 years in Barbie's history.
- The launch represents a significant step in inclusivity and education about type 1 diabetes.
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Mattel Inc/AP, The Conversation, CC BYBarbie has done many things since she first appeared in 1959. She’s been an astronaut, a doctor, a president and even a palaeontologist. Now, in 2025, Barbie is something else: a woman with type 1 diabetes. Mattel’s latest Barbie was recently launched by Lila Moss, a British model who lives with type 1 diabetes. The doll comes with a visible insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor, devices many people …
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Mattel Introduces Its First Barbie With Type 1 Diabetes
Mattel has introduced its first Barbie representing a person with Type 1 diabetes, as part of wider efforts from the toy maker to increase inclusivity among its dolls. In an announcement Tuesday, Mattel said it had partnered with Breakthrough T1D — a Type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization formerly known as Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF — to ensure that the design of the doll “truly captures the community.” That inclu…
Mattel unveils first Barbie with type 1 diabetes
Mattel has launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes in a bid to foster a greater sense of inclusion and empathy among children, a company vice-president said Tuesday. The new Barbie has been designed in partnership with the global type 1 diabetes not-for-profit Breakthrough T1D. "Introducing a Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes marks an important step in our commitment to inclusivity and representation," said Krista Berger, senior vice …
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Mattel debuts the first Barbie doll with Type 1 diabetes
The doll continues Mattel's expansion of representation across its flagship brand. The Barbie Fashionistas line features more than 175 looks across various skin tones, body types and disabilities.
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In an odd attempt at inclusivity, Mattel Inc. introduced a new Barbie doll living with Type 1 diabetes. Mattel Inc. hopes to facilitate “doll play that extends beyond a child’s own lived experience.” The new doll is decked out with a glucose monitor and an insulin pump that’s attached to her waist. In pink, of course. Mattel releases new Barbie with diabetes. The Barbie doll, with type 1 diabetes, comes with an insulin pump, a glucose monitor o…
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