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Raquelle: So how old is Barbie, anyway?
[cut to Confession Cam]
Nikki: That's a good question...I know she was a doctor, and you gotta go to school for at least eleven years for that... which would make her... [gasp] No way!
Teresa: How old is Barbie? Well, she ran for president. And you gotta be at least 35, so that means she's at least... wait, what am I adding?

"I am as old as me"
Giulia, Boris

Mao Mao: Pretty sure you're just a kid. In fact, aren't you all children?
Chicken: I'm thirty!

But I'm not sure exactly how old she's supposed to be. She looks like she's supposed to be a little girl (like she's much shorter than the personified Fame and Beauty, for example), but when she's going through all the discomfort of "Beauty", she wears makeup and "plucks" like someone who's at least a teenager. And she seems to be wearing makeup for most of the book, unless the full fuchsia lips and blushing cheeks are her natural color (like maybe the pink hair?). Maybe she's an adult with dwarfism. She never does anything particularly childlike.
Cassandra Gelvin on the titular character of Little Love, Dont Read This To My Kids

Anonymous Tumblr User: How old is Rory actually?
Rory: I've been told I've an aulnote  soul.
Aran: Ye don't have a soul.

Imogen: "200 and up"?
Chetney: I don't know, I stopped counting after 101. Because what's the point?
Critical Role: Campaign Three: "Thicker Grows the Meal and Plot"

BILLY BATSON is now about 14 years old. He was 12 when the strip started. Don't ever state his real ageā€”that would spoil a reader's conception of Billy as being his own age, or younger, or older, as he may prefer to believe. However, for our benefit, Billy has the reactions and characteristics of a boy of 14.
Shazam!: Fawcett Writing Rules (1942)

Age? I don't know!

Momo looked more than a little bizarre, and her appearance could easily shock the kind of people who hold cleanliness and neatness in high regard. She was so small and skinny that people couldn't tell, even when they tried their hardest, whether she was eight or already twelve.
Momo

Also how old is the rebel member [of the group of trolls]? He strikes me as if he might be a kid!
Jeremy Perron on The Real Ghostbusters episode "Troll Bridge"

There's some kids in school. It's unclear how old they are because of the stylised art. They could be anywhere between five and fourteen, for all I can tell.

Master Shake: I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this!
Meatwad: Well, which one? Is you 30 or 40?
Master Shake: I don't know! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?

Picard: How old are you?
Worf: I am... (Beat) ...old enough.


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