# @nextshark on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-04-25T19:34:38.000+00:00
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Kristi Yamaguchi’s doll was released on Wednesday as part of Barbie‘s Inspiring Women Series for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.⁠
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Mattel is honoring Yamaguchi’s achievement as the first Asian American woman to win an individual gold medal in ice skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.⁠
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“It looks like me for sure,” Yamaguchi told the Associated Press. “You know, the eyes and just the shape of the face. And then, of course, the hair, for sure. I mean, it has the bangs that are the ‘90s.”⁠
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barbie, news, kristiyamaguchi, figurestaking, olympics, mattel

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