This year, the iconic American doll Barbie and her male counterpart Ken are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. Never the types to miss an iconic event, SMITH Six-Word Memoirists distill what it meant, and still means, to grow up with Barbie, for better and for worse. Click on each writer's name for more of his or her stories. Ragdoll living in a Barbie world. —EternalRose I've become my own Barbie doll. —Katy Reinsel Barbie doesn't look fifty like me! —HerminiaB