AS A child she’d stare at the rows of Barbies in toy stores and think she’d never seen anything as beautiful.
The glossy hair, the perfect outfits, the tiny high heels – it was plastic perfection in a pretty pink package.
But as much as she begged her mother to buy her one, the answer was always no. Barbie was a terrible role model for girls, her mom told her, creating false ideas of beauty and body image.
But her mother must be smiling wryly at the irony now.
Her daughter, Greta Gerwig, is the record-breaking toast of Tinseltown – and it’s all thanks to the movie
