You Will Soon Be Able To Buy A Mattel Hijab Barbie In Stores And Twitter Is Obsessed
The American toy manufacturing company Mattel has just announced a hijab barbie and the internet is LOVING it.
The barbie is modelled on American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, she’s dressed in fencing gear and a hijab and will be available for purchase from 2018.
The announcement was made yesterday
We are so excited to honor @IbtihajMuhammad with a one-of-a-kind #Barbie doll! Ibtihaj continues to inspire women and girls everywhere to break boundaries. #Shero #YouCanBeAnything #GlamourWOTY pic.twitter.com/oV0e6ClgL6
— Barbie (@Barbie) November 13, 2017
And Twitter users are loving the news
Will be in stores in 2018
And people are already hoping to pre-purchase
This is AMAZING! Where can I pre-oder?? She’s beautiful!
— archived (@braidsnglasses) November 14, 2017
So cool!! ????Love it!????????
— Jane Northsider (@janeb7) November 13, 2017
In honour of Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad – a member of the American fencing team and the first woman to wear a hijab competing for the US
There’s a hijab-wearing Barbie based on Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad, and OMG it’s perfect https://t.co/bXkxEOiNod pic.twitter.com/cA5rohFkE6
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) November 13, 2017
