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There’s
nothing like a mother’s love for her daughter. After finding out her older
daughter, Sophia, was struggling with accepting her body image
and kinky hair at the age of 3; Miami resident & mom of 2 girls Angelica
Sweeting decided she was going to help her daughter.
In
a car ride one day she over heard her daughter saying she wanted to look like Barbie
and have hair like Elsa from the animation Frozen. According
to Today.com – “She wanted to
look like Barbie and she wanted hair like Elsa, long blond hair and white skin“.
“I was really, really sad that my daughter would think that at such a young
age…I knew I had to do something about it.“
After
the incident Angelica and her husband started practicing daily affirmations
with their daughter to help her accept her skin, hair and facial features, and
tried getting a doll that was a good representation of this to her daughter;
but when she realized there weren’t any, she decided to take matters into her
own hands.
After
much preparation and testing, she created the Angelica Doll –
an 18-inch doll that features facial detailing and washable kinky hair just
like Sophia’s and her other daughter, Sydney’s hair, under her Naturally
Perfect Dolls company. According to Angelica – “We created the
Angelica doll to help my daughter with self love, so she would always see a
positive reflection of herself in the toys that she plays with.” “The
Angelica doll has facial features that are true to women of color. She is here
to expand our spectrum of beauty and to give little girls more, so they’re able
to see that beauty comes in different shades.“
In
creating the doll, Angelica and her husband took the ideas and final word of
their daughters into play so the doll would be the closest thing to a true
representation of them and other little girls with kinky hair. She started a Kickstarter campaign to raise
enough money to produce and ship the dolls to help as many girls as possible
and they have since doubled their initial target
Angelica is set to produce more
dolls as engineers, entrepreneurs and journalists as opposed to the fashion
girls and princess dolls out there, after seeing the dolls great impact on her
daughter. According to Today.com – “As a mom it makes me feel
proud,” Sweeting says. “I love knowing my daughter loves herself and she’s
proud of who she is and what she looks like“.
Angelica is set to produce more
dolls as engineers, entrepreneurs and journalists as opposed to the fashion
girls and princess dolls out there, after seeing the dolls great impact on her
daughter. According to Today.com – “As a mom it makes me feel
proud,” Sweeting says. “I love knowing my daughter loves herself and she’s
proud of who she is and what she looks like“.
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