{"id":43748,"date":"2012-01-14T05:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/two-moms-bound-together-by-cancer-one-has\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:45:29","slug":"two-moms-bound-together-by-cancer-one-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/two-moms-bound-together-by-cancer-one-has\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-43748 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/two-moms-bound-together-by-cancer-one-has\/attachment\/43749\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lxrx7knT4O1qescblo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Two moms, bound together by cancer (one has lymphoma; the other&rsquo;s daughter has leukemia) are asking\u2014quite nicely\u2014for Mattel to make a &ldquo;Beautiful and Bald Barbie&rdquo; to help young girls who suffer from hair loss due to cancer treatments, Alopecia or Trichotillomania. Will the doll giant bow to public demand? Eh, probably not, but let&rsquo;s spread the word with the hopes that they will!<br \/>\nRebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham started the Facebook group &ldquo;Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let&rsquo;s see if we can get it made,&rdquo; last month to petition Mattel to make a hairless doll for girls who are losing their own hair or are coping with someone they love losing their hair. (And no, it really doesn&rsquo;t work if you just cut the hair off a regular Barbie.) Sypin and Bingham say they would love to see a portion of proceeds go to childhood cancer research and treatment, and Sypin told CBS, &ldquo;We are not demanding; we are not asking people to boycott. That wasn&rsquo;t our goal at all. We&rsquo;re just trying to raise awareness.&rdquo;<br \/>\nIt sounds like a good idea, but so far, Mattel&rsquo;s been mum\u2014Sypin told MSNBC &ldquo;We got a generic letter that said they don&rsquo;t accept outside ideas and they&rsquo;re developing new ideas for 2012 but couldn&rsquo;t disclose that information right now.&rdquo; As Jezebel points out, &ldquo;It seems a bit strange that the company isn&rsquo;t jumping on the idea. Creating the doll would generate positive PR, especially if the company donates a portion of the proceeds to a cancer charity.&rdquo; If Mattel can bust out tattoo-covered Barbies and Kardashian Barbies on a whim, why not something that could actually prove helpful to girls? (via <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/01\/12\/should_mattel_make_a_bald_barbie.php\">Should Mattel Make A Bald Barbie?: Gothamist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two moms, bound together by cancer (one has lymphoma; the other&rsquo;s daughter has leukemia) are asking\u2014quite nicely\u2014for Mattel to make a &ldquo;Beautiful and Bald Barbie&rdquo; to help young girls who suffer from hair loss due to cancer treatments, Alopecia or Trichotillomania. Will the doll giant bow to public demand? Eh, probably not, but let&rsquo;s spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-43748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bnC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43750,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748\/revisions\/43750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}