“Space Barbie.” The Real live Barbie Valeria Lukyanova has taken the internet and Youtube by storm for being able to transform herself into the American famous toy. She is unapologetically all girl and not just another pretty face. “I like everything beautiful, feminine and refined, and it just do happens that is what dolls are based on,” says Lukyanova.
The controversy
Known around the world, the Ukranian model went from Youtube to Jezzebel and V magazine spreads. The human Barbie’s smallish features and fixed stare helped photographers to transform “the look.” What took everyone by surprise is the doll-like appearance actually looks as if she is the plastic prototype.
The extreme image made people wonder what a real-life person must be like on the inside, especially in an age when individuality and a person’s quirks are what make the person. Some feminists abhor the Barbie doll and the “cookie-cutter” image and what it represents.
Did she or didn’t she
The rumor mill has run mad with stories about rib removal, breast augmentation, and plastic surgeries, but the doll-faced girl swears it’s all makeup, and some studies may touch the pictures just a bit to add to her image of doll-like.
Spiritual one-tank trip
Space Barbie. The “Human Barbie Doll” has another side, her spiritual side using the Barbie look to draw attention to the enlightenment of being.
“I am a lecturer on the subject of out-of-body experience. I am a beautiful, inspiring young woman talking about spirituality and you can see what people choose to focus on. People hear and see what they want to. I have a vast amount of work to do on myself. When people think they’ve reached perfection that is when the degradation begins.”
Her homemade spiritual advice videos on YouTube add a few makeup tips, and it’s easy to look beyond her alien-like appearance. She has an enormous following, for just the number of “haters” in her closet she has just as many supporters.
Is it live or is it Memorex
The Human Barbie even does a séance in her documentary to prove her remote skills, with her real-life friends she refers to as “soulmates.” At one point the group resorts to a bird whistling technique that Lukyanoya says aligns you with your spiritual DNA.
Has the “plasticity” gone to her head
She’s been to a psychiatrist she claims to check on the “voices” in her head and visions of other planets. “He said I was very lucky, anyone else would have taken me to the “special place.”
The Human Barbie has a sister Olga, “I never thought my sister would be called a Barbie. She’s always had this doll-like look, but a doll is associated with an unintelligent person, and my sister is very intelligent and interesting to talk to.”