Feb. 13, 2004Rarely does a celebrity breakup come as a shocker. As soon as two stars begin dating, breakup rumors start to circulate. But Ken and Barbie were the exception. After all, he was a blond. She was a blonde. He was buff. She was busty. He never got angry. She couldn't flatten her feet. For 43 years, everything looked fine on the outside, but who ever really knows what is going on inside a relationship, right? Mattel officials didn't divulge many details of what went wrong when they announced in 2004 that the couple had called it quits. Mattel's Russell Arons told the Associated Press at the time that Ken and Barbie "feel it's time to spend some quality time — apart," and denied the split was linked to the arrival in stores of Cali Girl Barbie.
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