My favorite doll is Frankie. See, I had an traffic accident as a child, and I have a some giant scars on my body. I was very young at the time of this accident and the adults around me weren't well equipped to help a young one with body image issues. All my childhood I felt ugly and quite literally like a "monster" because of my scars.
Fast forward to my late teen/early adulthood years, I saw MH dolls in a toy store. I was instantly captivated by them. They weren't your regular Barbie doll, they were edgy, unique and different!! Couldn't really put my finger on it, why were they so mesmerizing to me, I couldn't tell.
Years later, well into adulthood, I remembered about MH and started collecting. And I asked myself, what is it about these dolls that I enjoy so much? I don't really know much about fashion, my own style is way too casual. But I enjoy looking at these dolls so much! And my favorite was Frankie.
Then it came to me (tbh it was obvious :D but it took a while for me to understand why). MH dolls aren't like Barbie or Bratz or any other doll line. They're "flawed", they have prosthetic limbs, different colored eyes, different body shapes, and scars!! They are "freakish monsters" but they are so confident in themselves, they're unique in the best way possible. My G3 Frankie has a prosthetic leg & many stitches on their body and I find them beautiful. This realization changed how I look at my own body.
I wish I had a Frankie instead of a Barbie when I was a little girl, because what I needed to see wasn't a perfect spotless body, but a different one. Maybe then I could look at them and realize I could still be loved with a body full of scars.