How Greta Gerwig went from playing with hand-me-down Barbies to Hollywood’s hottest director

As a child she’d stare at the rows of Barbies in toy stores and think she’d never seen anything as beautiful.

The glossy hair, the perfect outfits, the tiny high heels – it was plastic perfection in a pretty pink package.

But as much as she begged her mother to buy her one, the answer was always no. Barbie was a terrible role model for girls, her mom told her, creating false ideas of beauty and body image.