Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi exclusively tells Us Weekly how her two daughters, Keara and Emma, found out that she was getting her own Barbie doll
Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is a figure skating icon and will now forever be immortalized with a replica Barbie doll, news that initially shocked her teenage daughters.
She added, “ like, ‘What? Like, you?’ Kind of a little bit in disbelief at first, and kind of like, ‘Why you? You're just our mom.’ But, I think maybe a small part of them was a little proud.” “It's an amazing replication of it and, like, so many of the details were so much fun to work with Barbie ,” Yamaguchi told Us. “Even … the shininess of the gold on the black down to the bouquet of flowers, which was modeled after the bouquet of flowers I did receive on the podium, . So, it was really incredible the details that really, really finds important.”
“It was the only time I wore that dress in competition so I think it was just almost a given for everyone,” she said, gushing it was “very cool” to see the final product for the first time. “The details were really looked after and even the little gold bow ... on the back of the ponytail, it's like almost the same material that mine was made of down to the brand of skates that I wore.
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