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Megan Garside

Barbie's pink paint shortage just got debunked... but there's a sublime twist

Barbie.

Remember when the Barbie movie caused a world shortage of pink paint? Yeah, well, it looks like that never actually happened, but rather the world simply didn't have enough pink paint to begin with. 

“There wasn’t enough pink paint [to begin with],” production designer Sarah Greenwood told Yahoo! Entertainment, acknowledging it was her off-the-cuff comment “The world ran out of pink,” made in an interview with Architectural Digest, that led us all to believe that the Barbie movie caused a worldwide shortage of pink. 

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