NEW YORK • One doll is bald. Another has a prosthetic limb. And another doll's curly dark hair is swept away from her face to show she has vitiligo, a condition that causes patches of skin to lose melanin.
They are among several new Barbie dolls that toymaker Mattel is hailing as its "most diverse doll line" that features "more skin tones, hair types and body shapes than ever before".
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