( actually no actor does ; a real woman with the conventional barbie proportions would be unable to lift her head or stand ) .
before you write off 2016 as a net loss for contemporary feminism , know this : amy schumer is in talks to play barbie in a live - action comedy .
and who better to recalibrate the image and message of barbie than schumer is openly adoring of her fabulous curves .
and were such proclamations about which female bodies earlier this year .
” it ’s a departure from the more reverential animated barbie movies of the past , but still meant to be a family flick , with a planned pg rating .
schumer obviously felt she needed to respond to the people criticising her body .
 
i sometimes feel a bit sorry for amy schumer .
because simply by being a woman in the public eye , existing , and having the audacity to do so without the perfect size - zero proportions demanded of the women on our screens , she has been forced to become a spokeswoman on society ’s body - image fixation .