#Barbie honors nurse Amy O’Sullivan, who treated NYC’s 1st COVID patient

She has a helluva toy story to tell.

Brooklyn ER nurse Amy O’Sullivan thought her colleagues at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center were playing a prank on her this summer when she was told she got a call from someone saying they were with the Mattel toy company.

“Call Barbie,” — stat — the secretary for hospital CEO Ramon Rodriguez told her, referring to Mattel.

The company wanted to know if she was OK having her likeness turned into a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll.

O’Sullivan, 58, doesn’t exactly look like clean-cut Barbie — she rides a Harley and sports about 30 tattoos — so she was skeptical.

The more she heard, the more she was convinced.

Mattel wanted to celebrate six female frontline workers from around the world with handmade dolls that would look just like them.

O’Sullivan treated the first known COVID-19 patient in Brooklyn, an 82-year-old woman — and then survived her own battle with the virus, which included being intubated.

“What an honor!” she told The Post.

“That [Mattel] would actually reach out to me and say, ‘Hey, we would like you to be a role model for little girls and represent nurses around the world to show girls that they can do anything and be anything.’”

O’Sullivan, a nearly 20-year veteran of the hospital, huddled with a 12-person creative team at Mattel who got right to work capturing her rad look for the doll, which features her tats and signature flamingo printed scarf.

“We were communicating every day, 10 times, 15 times a day, Zoom, over the phone,” she recalled. “They said this was going to be a one-of-a-kind doll, with your hair and your glasses and your socks and your shoes.”

Said an ecstatic O’Sullivan: “The design theme captured everything. It’s surreal — like looking in the mirror. Who in their lifetime can ever say they are a Barbie?”

O’Sullivan’s first brush with celebrity came last year, when she was featured on the cover of Time magazine on Oct. 12, 2020.

“It was still a bit overwhelming with the crisis burning and it was tough because it was reminding me of what we were all still going through,” she said.

But she doesn’t want her family — daughters Ocean, 14, Kali, 12, Summer, 6 and partner Tiffany Latz, 46, also a nurse at Wyckoff — putting her on a pedestal, literally.

The Barbie will stay in her bedroom, she said, “on a high shelf out of reach from our three dogs and three cats.”

As a girl, she never even played with Barbies.

“I had Ken dolls,” she said. “They were more fun, they were just cooler and they dressed different.”

In addition to the six first-responder dolls, each given to the women they honor, Mattel has rolled out a line of generic female doctors, nurses and paramedics to be sold at Target during the month of August.

It will donate $5 from each sale to the First Responders Children’s Foundation.

The campaign has O’Sullivan feeling hopeful.

“When I was younger I always felt like an outsider — nobody ever looked like me, talked like me, walked like me. I had no role model at all when I was growing up,” she said.

“So if I can be some little girl’s role model that feels like this, I would love that. That would be super cool.”