Midge The Pregnant Barbie Controversy Explained

In Greta Gerwig’s smash-hit movie Barbie, Barbieland is populated by all sorts of Barbies and Kens, and even actual discontinued Mattel dolls, like Midge the pregnant Barbie. A pop culture phenomenon the moment it hit theatres, Barbie is currently the highest-grossing movie of 2023, and represents the first film directed by a woman that surpassed the $1 billion mark. The story centers on Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie), who suffers an existential crisis that results in her traveling to the Real World to fix it. Her boyfriend Ken (Ryan Gosling) invites himself along, and he soon discovers patriarchy, which subsequently shakes up Barbieland in a disastrous way.