'This is my world': Top Barbie fan sees herself in movie

As the proud owner of 12,000 Barbies, Tatiana was more excited than most to watch the film

Published: August 28, 2023 16:00 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor and with inputs from Reuters

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Moscow: As the proud owner of 12,000 Barbie dolls, Russian collector Tatiana Tuzova was more excited than most to watch the Hollywood movie based on her idol. Image Credit: Reuters

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Like the character played by Margot Robbie in the film, Tuzova inhabits both a fantasy realm of beautiful dolls and a real world where things are far less perfect. Of the two, she prefers the first, depicted in the move as Barbie Land. Image Credit: Reuters

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"To some extent, this is my world as well. And I even recognized myself in the film character a little bit, because I also feel sad when I come back to grey reality," she told Reuters. Image Credit: Reuters

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Tuzova has supplied 300 of her dolls to go on show at an unofficial premiere of the film in Moscow on Sept. 9. She said she had hoped to see it for the first time on the big screen. Image Credit: Reuters

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The first Barbie dolls, produced in 1959, from Russian celebrity and Barbie doll collector Tatiana Tuzova's collection. Image Credit: Reuters

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Her obsession with Barbie began in childhood. "I think Barbie is a role model. Her slogan is 'You can be anything'. I looked at her and understood that I could be anything as well," she said in an interview in her apartment, dressed all in pink with an enormous bow in her hair. Image Credit: Reuters

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Behind her, an entire wall was filled with hundreds of Barbies, from Army and Air Force to Party Time and Pretty Flower - all in their original boxes to preserve their value. Image Credit: Reuters

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Tuzova said her father died when she was six months old and she had "nothing" as a child. Image Credit: Reuters

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"And I decided that I would have everything. And everything will be pink." She said she liked the fact that the Barbie heroine of the film remained true to herself even when she crossed into the real world. Image Credit: Reuters

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A view shows details of a dress of Russian celebrity and Barbie doll collector Tatiana Tuzova. Image Credit: Reuters

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"She remained herself: she didn't put on weight, didn't dye her hair brunette. She just adapted, let's say, to the real world - as, in general, I did." Image Credit: Reuters

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