#i just love sharon rooney and im so happy she was a barbie that was just as barbie as all the other barbies :)

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barbie spoilers?? maybe?? but idk why one of the things i loved most about the movie that i’m not seeing anyone else talk about (because maybe it’s a hard thing to bring up, or “bad” to talk about, or whatever, but) is that sharon rooney features so prominently as one of the main Barbies in Barbieland. i know sharon rooney from her role as rae earl in “my mad fat diary” where it was the first time i was seeing myself and my struggles with binge eating disorder and depression and fatness being portrayed on tv, and while maybe it wasn’t a super mainstream show (idk how popular it was in the uk), it was a show that was seeing me. 

and now sharon rooney is playing a barbie in THE barbie movie, and she is not “plus size barbie” or “body neutrality barbie” or like any of mattel’s recent attempts to make barbie have a normal body despite the original doll’s unrealistic proportions. she’s just a barbie!!!! she’s as much of a barbie as any of the other barbies!!!! idk why that’s giving me such a thrill especially to see her in the movie and i can’t really articulate what it is (that a person without margot robbie’s body shape/size is perfectly, evenly on par with her in a movie of this caliber -- not the main character or star, obviously, but is equally considered as beautiful and perfect as stereotypical barbie and all the other barbies just by being herself) -- but i loved loved loved loved loved it and i’m so happy that it was just a *thing* without needing to be quantified. 

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie spoilers #barbie movie spoilers #sharon rooney #idk like #obvi there's something to be said about the whole cellulite thing like how it was brought up that women are expected to be thin but not too #but not too thin #but that this wasn't mentioned but like #idk #idk idk this isn't really coherent i just like #i just love sharon rooney and im so happy she was a barbie that was just as barbie as all the other barbies :) #i loved this movie so much and this was just one thing i've been excited for since they dropped the barbie ads #and like...she was barbie :) i want to cry about it i love it