A Singaporean man is making international news for his weird obsession with Barbie dolls.
Jian Yang, the 33-year-old director of strategy at Omnicom Media Group in Singapore, has amassed a collection of of over 6,000 Barbies. He’s got 3,000 more non-Barbies too, for a total collection of 9,000 dolls.
WHOA.
“Incongruous is kind of me,” Yang told Reuters. “When you meet me outside of this, I’m not that kind of guy. I’m not what you expect from a guy that collects dolls.”
Yang bought his first Barbie at the age of 13 – the “Great Shape” model in a turquoise Spandex gym outfit and striped leg warmers.
“Before I knew anything about social norms, I was a boy that watched this on TV, liked it and wasn’t allowed to have one,” he said. “As I grew older, got my own allowance, that’s where I started getting the freedom to buy whatever I wanted.”
Yang estimates he’s spent SGD500,000 on his “crazy obsession.”
Besides Barbies, he owns Bratz Girls, Monster High and Jem and the Holograms lines.
