Ashley Graham Wanted Her Barbie to Have ‘Thick Thighs, Lower Belly Fat, Round Arms, Cellulite’

Ashley Graham is looking back at her life as a Barbie doll.

No, the supermodel isn’t in Greta Gerwig’s new “Barbie” movie, but Mattel made a doll in her likeness in 2016.“The first things that came to mind were thick thighs, lower belly fat, round arms [and] cellulite,” Graham recalls requesting of the toy company on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

“And I got to do everything except for the cellulite.

… Maybe it was too hard to figure out how to do that with the computer.”But Graham was very happy with the final product: “It wasn’t like, ‘Hi, Curvy Barbie.’ It was just Barbie.”Graham is reuniting with the storied brand by hosting HGTV’s “Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge.” The show features eight design duos creating different Barbie-themed rooms in an L.A.

area home.

The winning team have a donation made in…

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