Star Chats About Her ‘Bella Donna’ Doll (Exclusive)

It’s Stevie Nicks season.

Some honor the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman year-round, but there’s no use arguing: When the first few leaves flutter to the ground and the itch for a Practical Magic rewatch sets in, it’s officially her time. This year, she’s celebrating with a very special announcement.

After the success of her first Barbie Signature doll, which sold out twice, the singer-songwriter, 77, and Mattel are releasing a second miniature Nicks. For the rock icon — who has had a long year, from evacuating her home during the L.A. wildfires to suffering a fracture and postponing several shows — it’s joyful news.

“I’m just thrilled. It’s the only good thing since I broke my shoulder,” Nicks tells PEOPLE. As she returns to the stage for her fall tour, the star adds, she is doing her very “best,” even though “a broken shoulder is way more than I ever could possibly imagine.”

The “Silver Springs” hitmaker lovingly refers to her first mini-me, which released back in 2023as both “Stevie Barbie” and “Rumours Barbie.” The tambourine-wielding doll wears a witchy, all-black look lifted from the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterwork.

The new Barbie is inspired by a version of Nicks that emerged four years after Rumourswhen, for the very first time, she went her own way. In 1981, the rocker released her first solo record Pretty Womanwhich is best known for its third single — and one of the most important tracks in the rock canon — “Edge of Seventeen.”

It’s one of the biggest moments in Nicks’ legendary career, and one she was “pretty adamant” about seeing in doll form after the success of her Rumours-inspired figure — one of the most popular Barbie Signature dolls of all time, according to Mattel.

“It’s almost like you almost kind of had to do that,” Nicks tells PEOPLE. “I mean, of course, they didn’t have to do that for me, but I explained, ‘It’s like they go hand in hand, and then they blend in and out of each other for the rest of my life.’ ”

“They’re a story of my whole musical life,” she says of the dolls. “If I have a legacy, if I have ‘What do I leave behind that is sacred?’ I think that it’d be Barbie. Rumours and Pretty Woman Barbie are a huge part of what I leave behind when I go on to the next planet.”

“I’d like to have every outfit that I’ve ever had made into a Barbie doll,” adds the hitmaker — but “these are the two best ones.”

Pretty Woman Barbie, as Nicks calls her, wears a silky frock with angel sleeves, slouchy white boots and a towering top hat, bridging the gap between the singer’s free-spirited ‘70s style and early-‘80s glamour.

“The first Barbie is all in her black. And then I purposely, in my life, when I did the Pretty Woman cover, I said, ‘No. I have to wear the exact opposite. I have to wear all-white.’ … and then I eventually, of course, went back to black,” Nicks recalls. But, she clarifies, both dolls are necessary to capture the full picture of her life: “They had to be standing there together.”

The duo of mini Nickses is “the ebony and ivory,” says the singer. Or, to quote her and Don Henley’s iconic Pretty Woman duet, the leather and lace.

“They both have their full-on different vibes,” the singer says. But they are both unequivocally Stevie.

During the era represented by her Rumours Barbie, Nicks remembers, “I had no idea that I’d ever make a solo record. But when I went to Pretty WomanI went, ‘Pretty Woman cannot be anything like Rumours. It has to be a completely different sound, with my two girl singers. It has to be Crosby, Stills & Nash. It has to be really rock and roll. It has to be Tom Petty.”

“And I did it,” she adds, a feat immortalized by both the record and the plastic likeness it inspired.

“‘Just like the white-winged dove, sings a song, sounds like she’s singing.’ It’s like that,” Nicks says. “That is who Pretty Woman Barbie is.”

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The dolls are a patchwork of Nicks’ past, she previously explained to PEOPLE, but they are also helping the icon usher in her next era. She keeps them by her side in the studio as she works on her forthcoming album. “I pretty much take them everywhere,” she says, “so I can have the memory of them everywhere that I go.”

The hitmaker (and longtime baby doll collector) even has plans to publish a book of photographs of the dolls sometime soon, she tells PEOPLE. Nicks believes the Barbies are “alive,” she says, “so it’s truly like they’re alive, amazing puppets that come to life for me.”

“I know it sounds like I’m a fanatic,” adds Nicks. “I’ve turned into a crazy lady, but I don’t care because it’s brought so much joy to me.”

She shares a similar joy with fans on tour as, over 40 years after their release, she continues to perform Pretty Woman tracks like “Edge of Seventeen,” “Outside the Rain” and, of course, the title track.

Teasing her tour setlist, which she’s already tweaked since returning to the stage post-injury, Nicks says, “There’s a lot of music. There’s my new music. There’s Fleetwood Mac music. There’s Pretty Woman music.” Plus, she hints, fans might just hear a track from her and Lindsey Buckingham’s newly rereleased, pre-Fleetwood Mac record, Buckingham Nicks.

“There’s a lot,” adds Nicks, “and I feel like it’s all fallen into place exactly the way that the spirits meant for it to fall into place.”