Skipper isn’t the only Barbie sister — they have a whole extended family

polygon.com:

From the infamous Earring Magic Ken and Ken’s Best Friend Allan to Video Girl Barbie and the ever-pregnant Midge, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie is chock-full of cameos from the most distant corners of the Barbie canon. There’s even an appearance from the notorious Growing Up Skipper — Barbie’s little sister, whose boobs grew if you turned her arm.

But while a version of Skipper made her live-action theatrical debut in Barbie (and the Mattel corporate suits mention another Skipper, who they say escaped into the real world and then nearly drowned a child in a surfing accident), the rest of Barbie’s family is nowhere to be seen.

Float into our DreamHouse: Barbie World is Polygon’s dive into everything Barbie, from her legacy as an iconic toy to her presence in games and movies.

That’s right: Barbie has a family, and it’s pretty big. And in Barbie’s current incarnation in the movies and TV shows (which extends to a lot of toy counterparts), her family plays a huge role in her life.

Ever since 2018, Barbie’s animated adventures have been a little more grounded in reality than the solely fairy-tale-based stories of the early 2000s. (Though she does still get to befriend mermaids and swap places with princesses.) In her recent stories, she’s just a regular girl from Malibu, albeit with big dreams and an astonishing amount of free time to put those dreams into action, when she isn’t getting pulled into wacky adventures. The 2018 Netflix show Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures kicked off this era. More importantly, it dives into the lives of Barbie’s family, who had previously just been side characters in Barbie’s story.

Since her early days, Barbie has always had family members, including several discontinued younger siblings and