Luakam Anambe wanted her newborn granddaughter to have a doll – something she had never owned as a child working in slave-like conditions in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

Research has found that playing with skinny dolls makes girls aged 5-9 want a thinner body or “ideal size”

A more realistic doll and a digital entrepreneur are sending out a new, more wholesome message for pre-teen girls, writes Caroline Delaney