Woman named Barbie Oppenheimer accidentally becomes a living meme Warner Bros. Pictures \/ Universal PicturesJ. Robert Oppenheimer\u2019s third cousin happened to marry a woman named Barbara, resulting in a real-life Barbenheimer. Barbenheimer took the world by storm after it was discovered that Greta Gerwig\u2019s Barbie and Christopher Nolan\u2019s Oppenheimer would be released on the same day. As thousands flocked to the cinemas and bought tickets to see both as a double feature, Barbenheimer was coined as perhaps the most bizarre crossover to hit the internet yet. And now it turns out there is a real Barbenheimer. Well, a real Barbara Oppenheimer, married to the third cousin of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Barbara spoke with Slate about the odd coincidence, revealing what life has been like since accidentally becoming a living meme. \u201cI had college friends around the world texting me that weekend when [the movies] came out, with the whole schmear, you know\u2026 \u2018the bomb and the bombshell\u2019,\u201d Barbara said, admitting she thought it was a great marketing ploy. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty funny! It was a brilliant thing that they launched them together. It really brought people back into movie theaters.\u201d And she\u2019s a fan of both movies, approving of how Oppenheimer treated the portrayal of her husband\u2019s third cousin and \u201ctickled pink\u201d by Barbie\u2019s feminist take to the big screen. When it comes to her unique name, Barbara revealed she used to go by Barbie when she was a child but started using her full name after graduating and getting a fellowship at Mass General. Nonetheless, she has been enjoying her \u201cglorious summer of being Barbie again\u201d, saying, \u201cI\u2019m on vacation right now, and when I checked in at the hotel, I said, \u2018Barbie Oppenheimer! The guy said, \u2018Are you pulling my leg?\u2019\u201d She also still owns her own Barbie dolls, though they have since been passed on to be played with by her granddaughter. As Barbara said, \u201cWomen today stand on the shoulders of their mothers, who lived the Barbie life.\u201d Check out all the latest entertainment stories on our page here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Woman named Barbie Oppenheimer accidentally becomes a living meme Warner Bros. Pictures \/ Universal PicturesJ. Robert Oppenheimer\u2019s third cousin happened to marry a woman named Barbara, resulting in a real-life Barbenheimer. Barbenheimer took the world by storm after it was discovered that Greta Gerwig\u2019s Barbie and Christopher Nolan\u2019s Oppenheimer would be released on the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}