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Many people’s foundational Barbie memories are all about dolls. But when actress and model Hari Nef was a child, most of her time spent with Barbie was on the computer.

“It was Barbie’s Magic Hair Styler,” she says of her favorite memory about the iconic toy. “It was a computer game. It was mostly about her face and the glam. You could give her the right hairstyle and the right makeup for an occasion.”

“The idea that I could just change and transform the Barbie and create somebody from my fingertips, the magic of that, and I think also maybe the privacy of it, and something about Barbie and technology was really interesting to me at that

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