Pete and Julia appeared in a Barbie-inspired photo shoot for Paper magazine in 2019.
In an profile about Pete for the magazine, photographer Tommy Dorfman said she "threw out a Ken Doll concept" to the comedian, but he "challenged me to go darker, something that leaned into his struggle with depression, which he has been admirably public about."
Tommy said the concept came to her when Pete said he slept in a car-shaped bed growing up.
According to Tommy, Julia was "the perfect outer-borough Barbie to Pete's Ken."