The persistent media attention surrounding the 24-year-old during team training has lead to the pretty blonde being dubbed 'Barbie' by teammates who have to survive on a ten-dollar a day allowance from the Brazilian football federation.

But after being called Mrs. Ronaldo, or Ronaldinha, after her husband of three years and Real Madrid star Ronaldo, Domingues takes the criticism which has even come from team coach Paulo Goncalves, with humour.

"I'd really love to have her (Barbie's) waist," she quips.

"Funnily when I was small I never played with dolls, I always pulled off their heads to run out and play football."

Goncalves told the daily Folha that they rarely saw Domingues, who is a member of the women's team of Spanish side Rayo Vallecano, play and that she had been called up at the insistence of the Brazilian federation to popularise the game.

But Domingues, who along with the women's squad attended the training session of the world champion men's team at the Granja Comary, in Teresopolis on Wednesday, hit back at criticism.

"On the pitch I can't be such a Barbie, otherwise they'd criticise me," she said.

And the mother of three-year-old Ronald admitted she would not be allowing her husband, who scored both goals in Brazil's World Cup victory last year, to watch her play.

"Imagine if I missed a goal? He wouldn't let me forget it for two years," quipped Domingues after watching her superstar husband in training for the 2006 World Cup qualifier against Colombia.