Barbie fans sent Mattel letters asking them to fix Barbie up, so they debuted Ken in 1961. Given the fact that his "job is beach," as Ryan Gosling so elegantly explained, Ken arrived on the scene ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Ken: Hiya, Barbie! Barbie: Hi, Ken! You're looking unrealistically thin today! Ken: Funny, I was going to say the same about you. Narrator: Barbie is one of ...
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.