ABSTRACT;

Barbie is hitting 40 – and she’s having an identity crisis.

The doll with the bodacious bod is unable to decide if she’s a modern, cell-phone-toting, glass-ceiling-smashing corporate type or a tatooed slacker who hangs out with her poetry-writing, guitar-strumming buds.

Barbie can blame the children of America for all the confusion.

Toy industry experts say girls stop playing with their Barbies at a younger age nowadays, forcing Mattel to constatnl reinvent the world’s most-famous doll – which earns the company $2 billion a year.

From her original, 1959 black-and-white striped swimsuit and the world’s most familiar ponytail, Barbie moved stylishly with the times.