There was a time when it seemed it was Ken’s destiny to live and die a life of blonde fragility with Barbie by his side. Back in 2004, just days before Valentine’s Day, Mattel shared the sad ...

An instant hit, Barbie, along with her boyfriend Ken who was introduced in 1961, has had to “evolve with the changing times” to remain relevant. This included adding a new line that included ...

It’s a critical moment of pain and learning for the protagonist who later welcomes Ken’s reality TV counterparts — Barbie, Allan and Skipper — to the boat at the end of the episode to ...

With filmmaker Greta Gerwig's Barbie breaking box-office records—and devoting much of its story to Ken's existential crisis—we wondered if there's any more to Barbie's perennial plus-one.