Inside the world of 'real life Barbie' Valeria Lukyanova

[Alan C.]

The voices in her head, internet trolls and an OBSESSION with perfection: Inside the world of 'real life Barbie' Valeria Lukyanova

 

She has courted international controversy by turning herself into a human doll using plastic surgery and thick layers of dramatic make-up, confessing she wishes to be considered 'the most perfect woman on the internet'.

With her pinched waist, skeletal arms, enormous coloured contact lenses and vacant expression, Ukraine's Valeria Lukyanova, 23, believes she has become a living, breathing Barbie, something she sees as the ultimate embodiment of perfection. But how well do we really know her?

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'I think she was probably protection herself,' said Will. 'She'd appeared on various talk shows in the past and they were mainly trying to do one on her, so there was a lot of back and forth. We finally secured coming over when we said we'd focus on her spiritual and astral theories.'

Valeria believes she is from another planet - possibly Venus, but she isn't quite sure - so isn't really human like the rest of us.

'She's not a fraud,' clarified Will. 'She genuinely believes she's from another planet. 100 per cent. She's not making any money from her life - not even from the seminars she gives - which is originally why I thought she was doing this.'

Valeria, who is supported by her construction-working husband who also acts as her manager, spends the film discussing theories about her pre-Earth space life, and how she has become an object of hatred within some internet communities.

'I come from a place where only love and joy exist,' she says. 'But I noticed the media is only interested in negativity: show someone in a bad light, show someone's mistakes.

'There are hate blogs and communities about me who post bad pictures about me and try and worsen my mood.

'Perhaps at some point I was an energy vampire, because I constantly received their negative reactions and enjoyed it. Specifically for them I created posts that would make them angry.

'But people who think badly of me just aren't happy in their own lives. When they are happy they will forget about me.'

Valeria, who says she has a 'small group of friends who accept me for who I am', also admits she has visited a psychiatrist about the voices in her head. But just the once. She is not in therapy.

She said: 'I asked myself if everything was alright with my head. I hear voices all the time and see different beings. One day I decided to visit a psychiatrist. I told him everything.

'He listened to me carefully and said it was very lucky it was him because with another doctor I definitely would have been taken to a special place.

But he said, "I've been studying esoterism for years and can see you are psychic".'

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'And she is paranoid about not looking perfect. I don't know exactly where it comes from, but I suspect really it's down to... she seems to have a quite a lot of issues about her physical self, and is incredibly fixated with her image.

[Wesley]

Valeria... admits she has visited a psychiatrist about the voices in her head. But just the once. She is not in therapy.She said: 'I asked myself if everything was alright with my head. I hear voices all the time and see different beings. One day I decided to visit a psychiatrist. I told him everything.'He listened to me carefully and said it was very lucky it was him because with another doctor I definitely would have been taken to a special place.But he said, "I've been studying esoterism for years and can see you are psychic".'

 

The whole thing was just sad, but this is the moment where I began to feel disgusted. What therapist would do this to someone whose mind is so broken?

[MysterionMuffles]

This is truly tragic. I can't imagine how physically unattractive she must have been as a child or worse an adolescent. Not to mention any abuse that must have crippled her self esteem. To some degree she's right, anyone who hates on her may have crappy lives they're trying to avoid, but for me I have absolute sympathy.

 

I looked at some pictures and thats scary. She looks more alien than human. I dunno. After looking at her I kinda mess subtle blemishes on the average woman. A smooth face is a great plus in attractiveness in hygine but Valeria's skin...looks too plastic. I mean I saw a before photo of her and she was actually quite pretty. The Barbie body I wont lie looks nice, but in total she is a butter face.

[Soren]

... I can't imagine how physically unattractive she must have been as a child or worse an adolescent....

Why do you think she was necessarily physically unattractive as a child?

I have seen plenty of shows where normal and good looking women chose to have doctors cut in them self.

Soren

[MysterionMuffles]

It would be a typical case of wanting vengeance but if thats the case, why do you suppose that would happen? How can one still have image issues if they were even average level of attractive?

[Soren]

It would be a typical case of wanting vengeance but if thats the case, why do you suppose that would happen? How can one still have image issues if they were even average level of attractive?

I have never heard about getting a boob job or cosmetic surgery as a form of vengeance, vengeance against who, them self?

Well I don't know but by fare the majority of women I meet seem to think they need to cover them self up in a ton of chemicals even the ones which are physically beautiful with out.

[Daniel Chambers]

Poor lady. It wouldn't surprise me if, as a kid, she was told by an adult family member (or several of them) that she was ugly, fat, unlovable, and similar garbage. Given that she has departed from reality internally and externally, I assume she underwent some very intense abuse that will take years of therapy, if not decades of treatment, to recover from. Hopefully her mind, her self-image, isn't too far gone. Very sad.

[Kawlinz]

It would be a typical case of wanting vengeance but if thats the case, why do you suppose that would happen? How can one still have image issues if they were even average level of attractive?

because image issues don't always initially come from what you think of your own self.

Edited August 9, 2013 by Kawlinz

[Wesley]

I would venture to guess that image issues almost never originate in the self. It is others demeaning or making fun of you for your looks. There may be no "attractive level" that turns off those feelings of shaming, especially if they were originated by a caregiver.

[Alan C.]

Human Barbie talks plastic surgery, plans for the future

 

"The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me,” she said. "I'd rather die from torture because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle."

[MysterionMuffles]

well that says everything doesn't it?

I have never heard about getting a boob job or cosmetic surgery as a form of vengeance, vengeance against who, them self?

Well I don't know but by fare the majority of women I meet seem to think they need to cover them self up in a ton of chemicals even the ones which are physically beautiful with out.

vengeance to the people who made them feel inferior