Story highlights Changes are "the most dramatic we've ever made," Mattel official says

Company said Thursday Barbie will now come in original, tall, petite and curvy

(CNN) Girls and women don't come in one shape, and now, finally, Barbie won't either.

Now, in addition to the original Barbie -- impossibly slender and often parodied -- the doll will come in tall, petite and curvy varieties.

Mattel announced the new line Thursday on its website and in a Time magazine article featuring the cover headline, "Now can we stop talking about my body?"

"We have to let girls know it doesn't matter what shape you come in, that anything is possible," Tania Missad, director of consumer insights for the doll line, said in a video on the Barbie brand website.

According to Mattel, Barbie will now come in four body types and seven skin tones, with 22 eye colors and 24 hairstyles. In all, 33 dolls will roll out in stages, spokeswoman Michelle Chidoni said.

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