The woman who brought us the pink-filled ecstasy of Barbie, who lit up our summer and recreated our childhood fantasies...comes from an anti-Barbie household. How is this possible? How did Greta Gerwig capture the pure joy and naivety of Barbies without ever owning one herself?
Gerwig revealed this tragic fact to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. “My mom wasn’t so into Barbie," she said. "Certain moms, they would be like, ‘I don’t know if this is a good example of womanhood,’ the body type and everything … she was less excited about that."
