{"id":43542,"date":"2016-05-12T15:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=43542"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:43:24","slug":"mattel-misty-copeland-barbie-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/mattel-misty-copeland-barbie-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattel\u2019s New Misty Copeland Barbie Is En Pointe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Barbie<\/a><\/p>\n

Misty Copeland has been a trailblazer in the world of American ballet throughout her career. Last year she became the first black principal ballerina in the American Ballet Theatre\u2019s history, and she was also listed as one of the most influential people in the world on Time<\/em> magazine\u2019s annual list. Her dedication, passion, and skill have made her an icon for young ballerinas everywhere. Next month, Mattel is releasing a Misty Copeland Barbie<\/strong><\/a> as part of their \u201cYou Can Be Anything\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

Dressed in the Firebird costume from Copeland\u2019s iconic performance in Stravinsky\u2019s ballet, the doll has been in the works for two years. She is highly articulate, allowing you to pose her in any number of ballet moves. Copeland herself had a hand in helping to design the doll: she felt passionately that the doll should truly represent her body. <\/p>\n

Barbie has always been about making dreams come true for young girls, and Copeland speaks pragmatically about making this happen. \u201cIt\u2019s important to be passionate about what you do, but know that it doesn\u2019t come without hard work. Success doesn\u2019t come without sacrifice,\u201d she says in a promotional video<\/a> released on the Barbie YouTube channel. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful thing when you put all that work into what you\u2019re passionate about and you can sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Misty Copeland Barbie is 11-inches tall and comes in a window box for easy mint condition display. You can pre-order<\/a> it now, but be in quick because it\u2019s sure to sell fast!<\/p>\n

\u00bb Pre-Order Barbie Misty Copeland Doll<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Misty Copeland has been a trailblazer in the world of American ballet throughout her career. Last year she became the first black principal ballerina in the American Ballet Theatre\u2019s history, and she was also listed as one of the most influential people in the world on Time magazine\u2019s annual list. Her dedication, passion, and skill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":43549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158],"tags":[4193,4192,3900,3383,2433,4191],"yst_prominent_words":[10604,32761,26037,32759,32755,32754,32762,32760,11175,26200,32763,32757,32758,32756,30278,5955,13452,6101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43551,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542\/revisions\/43551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43542"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}