She's Fifty!

Reporting from Shanghai and Los Angeles -- Barbie turns 50 this month, and to shake off a midlife crisis she's getting tattooed and opening the doors to her first megastore in China.

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“During the 1950s and before, there was this dominant prevailing idea that women should be homemakers and mothers,” said Miriam Forman-Brunell, author of “Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood.” “Barbie challenged the postwar ideal about motherhood and sent the message that it was also OK to be a working woman.”