10 best celebrity Barbie dolls: Queen Camilla’s new likeness follows fantastic plastic tributes to Kate Middleton, Beyoncé and Zendaya – but whose lookalike is now worth over US$10,000?

Apr 8 , 2024

Mariah Carey, Queen Camilla and Naomi Osaka are among Style’s favourite Barbie likenesses. Photos: @nelsiecarrillo; @dnaroyals; @naomiosaka/Instagram

From British royals Kate Middleton and Queen Camilla to pop stars Mariah Carey and Shania Twain, limited edition celebrity Barbies are a collector’s dream – so which likeness has proved the most valuable?

For Zendaya, being Barbified ‘expanded the definition of beauty’ and showed her ‘how times have changed’, and Naomi Osaka and Tina Turner have also been immortalised

It’s been 65 years since Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler. Since then, Mattel has sold over a billion dolls, Barbie has had more than 250 professions, and thanks to Margot Robbie, she’s been given a new lease of life with the Barbie film.

Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie have helped to revive the Barbie brand in the past year. Photo: @barbiemillicentsr/Instagram

The original Barbie sold for just US$3 in 1959 according to Business Insider, but these days the most coveted iterations of the doll are the limited edition Barbies – many of whom have been modelled on celebrities. The latest famous person to get the Barbie treatment? None other than 76-year-old Queen Camilla.

The original 1959 Barbie doll, which sold for just US$3. Photo: @designmuseum/Instagram

So which other familiar faces have been blessed with the best Barbies – and whose likeness has proved to be most valuable? Read on to find out.

1. Queen Camilla

Queen Camilla was gifted a lookalike Barbie by the Women of the World Foundation. Photo: @dnaroyals/Instagram

For International Women’s Day this year, Queen Camilla was gifted a lookalike Barbie by the Women of the World Foundation. Complete with an Amanda Wakeley outfit and a pair of ultra-glam earrings, it was hand carried to London from LA by the global head of dolls at Mattel. “Brilliant, you’ve taken about 50 years off my life,” the queen quipped when she laid eyes on it.

2. Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey’s festive Barbie makeover. Photo: @vanityfairitalia; @nelsiecarrillo/Instagram

Just in time for Christmas last year, the queen of the festive season was made into a US$75 collectible doll, who can be seen clutching a microphone and wearing the red sparkly dress she wore in the original “All I Want For Christmas Is You” video.