In a touching interview, Cox describes buying a Barbie as an adult after she wasn't allowed to play with dolls as a child.
to the list of influential people that has received a Barbie doll dedicated in their honor.
Working with Mattel’s creative team, she didn’t hold back in sharing the vision she had for it, expressing to them “We had a conversation about highlights and lowlights because I'm blonde most of the time now, but I'm a Black girl, so I need a dark root. And we had a whole conversation about how they can't do that, but they could do dark low lights."That being said, the doll is still dripping in glamour, authentic to Laverne’s aesthetic who is no stranger to the red carpet.
Cox expressed her sorrow in not being able to have dolls of her own during childhood, saying "I begged my mother for a Barbie doll and she said no because I was assigned male at birth. When I was in my 30s, I was in therapy and telling my therapist that I was denied the opportunity to play with Barbie dolls. And my therapist said, 'It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and what you should do for your inner child is go out and buy yourself a Barbie doll.
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