Barbara Millicent Roberts aka Barbie didn't really start out as the Barbie we know in her various incarnations today. Originally she was drawn as a baby to fill a blank space in a German paper,the Bild-Zeitung in 1952 but the cartoonist's boss rejected the baby drawing so the cartoonist kept the baby's face and added a voluptuous woman's body and named her Lilli. She was an instant hit with the adult male population and was made into a doll sold in bars and tobacco shops for gag gifts and bachelor parties. In 1956 while vacationing in Switzerland Ruth Handler,Barbie's creator, noticed all the Lilli dolls and got the idea for the Barbie we all know today.
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