10 best celebrity Barbie dolls: Queen Camilla’s new likeness follows fantastic plastic tributes to Kate Middleton, Beyoncé and Zendaya – but whose lookalike is now worth over US$10,000?
The original Barbie sold for just US$3 in 1959 according to Business Insider, but these days the most coveted iterations of the doll are the limited edition Barbies – many of whom have been modelled on celebrities. The latest famous person to get the Barbie treatment? None other than 76-year-old Queen Camilla.
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So which other familiar faces have been blessed with the best Barbies – and whose likeness has proved to be most valuable? Read on to find out.
1. Queen Camilla
For International Women’s Day this year, Queen Camilla was gifted a lookalike Barbie by the Women of the World Foundation. Complete with an Amanda Wakeley outfit and a pair of ultra-glam earrings, it was hand carried to London from LA by the global head of dolls at Mattel. “Brilliant, you’ve taken about 50 years off my life,” the queen quipped when she laid eyes on it.
2. Mariah Carey
Just in time for Christmas last year, the queen of the festive season was made into a US$75 collectible doll, who can be seen clutching a microphone and wearing the red sparkly dress she wore in the original “All I Want For Christmas Is You” video.
“If I could go back and tell my little-girl self that one day I would have a Barbie made in my likeness, I would flip out!”, the songstress told People in November.
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3. Tina Turner
One of the dolls in Mattel’s Signature Music Series, the Tina Turner doll commemorates the Grammy-winning artist and one of her most iconic outfits. Turner died just 7 months after the doll was released.
4. Shania Twain
Released in early March, Shania Twain is one of the newest celebrity Barbies to grace shelves, and for our money she’s one of the best yet. The “That Don’t Impress Me Much” singer seems to agree …
5. Naomi Osaka
Giving little girls a role model has always been central to the Barbie ethos, so it was only a matter of time before some of the world’s most impressive female athletes were immortalised. Enter Naomi Osaka Barbie, released in 2021 and, at US$30, remains one of the more affordable and accessible Barbies that’s still available.
6. Prince William and Kate Middleton
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7. Karl Lagerfeld
8. Zendaya
“When I was little I couldn’t find a Barbie that looked like me, my … how times have changed,” she wrote on her Instagram at the time. “Thank you … for allowing me to be a part of your diversification and expansion of the definition of beauty.”
9. Beyoncé
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10. Heidi Klum
In 2009 Mattel released a Blonde Ambition collection, featuring none other than Victoria’s Secret model Heidi Klum. “I am so into Barbie. It has been a dream come true,” she told People at the time.
- From British royals Kate Middleton and Queen Camilla to pop stars Mariah Carey and Shania Twain, limited edition celebrity Barbies are a collector’s dream – so which likeness has proved the most valuable?
- For Zendaya, being Barbified ‘expanded the definition of beauty’ and showed her ‘how times have changed’, and Naomi Osaka and Tina Turner have also been immortalised