The Los Angeles Times – Samantha Masunaga
“For years, girls with diabetes and their parents have written to American Girl, asking the company to make diabetic accessories for their dolls. Two years ago, then-11-year-old Anja Busse of Antigo, Wis., created a Change.org petition calling on American Girl to create diabetic accessories and insulin pumps for dolls. The petition garnered 4,335 supporters. “I have two American Girl dolls, but there’s no diabetic supplies so they look just like me,” Busse says in a video posted in January 2014 on the petition website and on an accompanying Facebook page. “I want my doll to be just like me.” This wish will be realized on Jan. 1, when the company releases a diabetes care kit accessory for dolls. The kit, which includes a blood sugar monitor, insulin pump and lancet, will be available online and in the company’s 21 retail stores and will sell for $24, a spokeswoman said. American Girl is a subsidiary of El Segundo-based Mattel Inc.”(more)