Barbie, the billion-dollar movie inspired by the gazillion-dollar Mattel doll, got snubbed at the 2024 Oscars, particularly in the Best Actress and Best Director categories. Not all Barbie news is bad news, though.
This real-life Barbie, for example, is living her best life away from the awards show drama. But if there's something this Barbie, also known as Trucker Barbie or Romanian Barbie, has in common with Margot Robbie, who plays the iconic doll in the movie, it must be the way in which both are struggling to thrive in a male-dominated world.
Trucker Barbie is Georgeta by her real name, an experienced truck driver from Craciunelu de Sus, Alba, in Romania. She's been driving trucks for 12 years, 9 of which she spent in Spain, working for large companies. Today, she's back in her home country, running her own transport business.
For that to happen, she first had to buy a truck, a Volvo, which also allowed her to customize it the way she'd always wanted.
Not surprisingly, Barbie's truck is a technicolor dream, mostly in shades of pink and dripping in cute. Think rhinestones, hearts and bow stickers, and plush or fuzzy fabrics that would do the original Barbie proud. Georgeta, who recently became a viral star after her TikTok videos blew up, says she couldn't have done any of this before she owned the truck.
Photo: Instagram/georgeta.pisy
If you're wondering what the purpose of all this is, Georgeta has the answer ready. Because this is her home on the road and because she's proud to be a woman. In a recent media interview, she recalls trying to blend in with the guys when she started out, even buying men's clothes and cutting her hair short. She's come a long way from that to the realization that she must not forget to be a woman, only because she happens to work with men.
Looking at her today, it'd be hard to imagine her trying to blend in. Georgeta is proud in style and attitude, pneumatic and dressed in tight clothes, wearing pink from head to toe (even her hardhat is pink), and taking pride in her very girlish cabin. It's packed with stuffed toys and comforting items, a mobile home for herself and her two cats, Pisy and Norocel – the latter also partly dyed pink.
On social media, Georgeta documents her travels and the mundane aspects of her life as a truck driver with two cats and an almost unhealthy love of pink. She also posts the occasional glam shot, and we have to say, Barbie herself would approve of her choice of heels.
Whatever she does, regardless of whether the camera is rolling or not, this Barbie is always looking her best.
"A woman needs to remember she’s a woman regardless of her profession, she needs to be presentable at all times," she says. If that means decking herself and her surroundings in pink, then so be it. You do you, girl.
Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends. Full profile
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