Ann Ryan, daughter of Mattel VP Jack Ryan, says her late father — not Ruth Handler — created Barbie. Ryan was once married to Zsa Zsa Gabor and also designed missiles for Raytheon.
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Ann Ryan, left, claims her father, a Mattel designer, created Barbie and named the doll after her mother Barbara, right. Meanwhile, Ann, who has shared parts of her claims and history as the daughter of Barbie's creator on her podcast,"Dream House: The Real Story of Jack Ryan," says she knows the battle has only just begun to"get justice for my dad."
He traded in rockets for trinkets and began working as the vice president of research and design for Mattel in the ‘50s, when he designed some of the company’s most popular toys, including Hot Wheels and the Chatty Cathy talking doll. Ann, at 4 years old, became the voice of Chatty Cathy. "I was going crazy because I wanted different clothes for it, and they didn't sell the clothes separate," Barbara said."You had to buy a different doll every time you wanted a different outfit. My mother thought, Why is this daughter of mine so crazed about this doll? She bought a couple of them. And when we got back, I never saw them again. They were torn apart and researched, and they got the idea of the separate clothes, and the rest is history.
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