The new Barbie Fashionista line features some of Barbie’s most diverse dolls yet.

The new line features a doll with the skin condition vitiligo, a doll without hair, a male doll with long hair and a doll with a prosthetic limb, the Washington Post reports.

“For 2020, Barbie is continuing the journey to represent global diversity and inclusivity in the fashion doll aisle by showcasing a multi-dimensional view of beauty and fashion,” a Mattel spokesperson told CBS.

Mattel worked with a 12-year-old disability activist, Jordan Reeves, who uses a prosthetic arm, to construct some of the new figures, reports CNN.

In a tweet that included a small commercial announcing the line, Barbie said that the new dolls would include more diversity in hair colors and skin tones, portraying the message that Barbie is no longer just a blonde doll with blue eyes, with the hashtag #WeAreBarbie.

The 176 dolls in the Fashionistas line represent eight different body types with 35 different skin tones and 94 hairstyles, according to CBS.

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And, according to CBS, the diverse dolls are selling well. The top selling doll of 2019 was a curvy black doll. Out of the top 10 sellers, seven were part of Mattel’s diversity line.

In recent years, Mattel has been greatly diversifying Barbie. In 2016, they added curvy and petite body types to their line, according to the Associated Press.

In 2017, Mattel released its first Barbie wearing a hijab, modeled after Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, CNN reported.

And in 2018, the company released dolls modeled after iconic female heroes like Amelia Earhart and Frida Kahlo for International Women’s Day, reports The Associated Press.

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