Everyone's Favorite Normal Barbie Now Comes With . . . a Period?

The Period Party add-on pack, complete with an educational pamphlet and an array of colorful pads and panty liners, is sold in addition to a pack of stretch mark, cellulite, and acne stickers that you can place on the doll.

"If a doll has pads, how can [menstruation] be taboo?" said Nickolay Lamm, Lammily's designer. "Periods are such an integral part of a woman's life, just a healthy part of it. It shouldn't have to be swept under the rug."

Lamm originally created Lammily after a Kickstarter campaign to make a realistic doll and collaborated with his mother to design the vibrant Period Party pads.

"I just don't think that something as core to a woman's life and healthy as menstruation should be seen as embarrassing in any way, shape, or form," said Lamm. "If it weren't for menstruation, I wouldn't even be alive right now! So why not celebrate it, why not make it as accepted as any other bodily function?"

The pads come in an array of different colors and patterns to help make them fun and engaging to kids.

Instead of hoping that his doll replaces the need for a sensitive conversation between kids and their parents, Lamm encourages parents to use Lammily as a way to get the dialogue started.

"I've read horror stories of kids thinking that they were dying during their first period," Lamm said. "Parents are also wary of approaching this subject. So I feel Lammily's Period Party can introduce kids to menstruation in a very fun and disarming way and give parents a very useful tool."

In addition to cheerful liners and pads, the kit also includes doll-sized underwear, a calendar, and dot stickers to keep track of Lammily's menstrual cycle.