Zoolander Crashes Barbie's Instagram and Teaches Her How to Do the Blue Steel

Eat your heart out, Ken

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And the Blue Steel delights just keep on coming.

Following a Fiat appearance, a bespoke perfume ad campaign and a stunning promotional debut for Zoolander No. 2 on Valentino's catwalk, Derek Zoolander—played by Ben Stiller—has again popped up someplace unexpected but awesome. 

And he's even more plastic than usual.

For the last three days, @BarbieStyle—the official Barbie Instagram, which often depicts the doll as so ingratiatingly #Blessed that a sardonic short-lived parody of her exploded in popularity—has featured a new playmate: the perpetually duck-faced Zoolander.

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