Barbie goes bald: The most unique Barbie dolls

A humanitarian campaign to popularise a bald doll modelled in the shape of a Barbie, the universally popular toy manufactured by Mattel, has become a hit with children who have lost their hair to cancer or are living with relatives who are victims of the deadly and often disfiguring disease.
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Beautiful and Bald 'friend of Barbie' is made to help young girls who live with hair loss due to cancer treatments, Alopecia or Trichotillomania, says the Facebook page of the initiative.
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It now has the support of the Vatican which has appealed to the makers of Barbie to put these dolls on the shelves of toy shops but Mattel has refused. Let's have a look at other unique Barbie dolls...
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Mattel's 'Share a Smile Becky' doll sits in its wheelchair. The 11-1/2 inch doll was introduced into the Barbie line as Barbie's 'friend with a disability'.
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Mattel's Butterfly Art Barbie sits on Miami Beach.
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A German Chancellor Angela Merkel Barbie doll displayed during an event at a department store in Hamburg. Barbie has chosen to honour and recognise Chancellor Merkel as a very modern role model for girls around the world.
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A Barbie doll adorned with Tahiti pearls on display at jewellery firm Mikimoto & Co's store in Tokyo.
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A Barbie doll showing 'Dream of Jeannie' is pictured in Duesseldorf February 3, 2009.
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A Barbie doll wearing a white gold snake necklace encrusted with diamonds and emerald eyes by Boucheron on display at jewellery firm Mikimoto & Co's store in Tokyo.
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To celebrate the Handover of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, this 'Chinese Empress Barbie - Hong Kong 1997 Commemorative Edition' went on sale at a Hong Kong. The Brunette Barbie doll features an elaborate traditional costume, commemorative gold coin and certificate of authenticity for HK$539.90 in a limited edition of 5000.
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Hong Kong jewellery designer Michele Cheung displays a Barbie with a set of specially-designed jewellery worth HK$1.8 million (US$230,000) dollars at an exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Barbie doll.
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The Barbie doll No.1 from 1959 is pictured in Duesseldorf February 3, 2009.
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A toy Barbie Doll clothed in a genuine gold dress. The dress was created by Bernhard Meister, chief designer for German jeweller Christ, and includes 35 diamonds and white gold.
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A Barbie doll in accessories by designer Justin Smith is seen at an exhibition in the Galeries Lafayette department store in Berlin June 25, 2009.
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A Barbie Doll wears a limited edition dress designed by an Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace at the luxury label Versus shop in the centre of Bulgarian capital Sofia on December 13, 2004. The doll costs 280 levs (189 Dollars).
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A Barbie doll couple from the 60s with an office dress is pictured in Duesseldorf February 3, 2009.
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Barbie, shown in this 1998 Mattel Happy Holidays Barbie Doll design, is considered the world's most famous doll.
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A young girl admires a barbie doll bedecked with 4.43 carat diamonds at a supermarket in Bangkok December 6, 2002. The doll has a price tag of 410,000 baht ($9,500).
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Margarete Hyer shows off Mattel's newest Barbie doll 'WNBA Barbie', which wears the uniform of the Womens' National Basketball Association, at the American International Toy Fair in New York, February 10.
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A Barbie doll with a Dolce & Gabbana outfit stands on display at an exhibition of over 81 Barbie dolls with frocks designed by some of the top international designers, November 20, in an attempt to raise money for breast cancer prevention.
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News Anchor Barbie (L) and Computer Engineer Barbie are shown in front of a display of career-doll Barbies at the Toy Fair in New York February 12, 2010.
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