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As for Valeria Lukyanova a. She claims her features are free of plastic surgery, except for her breasts. As for her big Barbie eyes, Valeria wears enlarging contact lenses. However, she doesn't quite appreciate being labeled the Human Barbie.

Actually, the space image, along with the images of the Atlant girl and the warrior-Amazon are the closest ones to me. To fit the last one, I build my muscles in the gym every day. But people persistently compare me with Barbie, even though I'm too muscle-bound for a doll," Valeria said.

Those are the heroes who are pretty much cooler than scrawny and waif-like Barbie," she added with a smile. Valeria has found a great supporter in her masculine partner: "He tells me that I have appearance of an elven princess or a mystical fairy, and he considers my image beyond time and epoch.

Women stare, too. But here's the thing—other women's looks are largely approving. Valeria's waist is basically a sock of skin around her spinal cord. She said we were going to see "five-dimensional movies" that play in a kind of indoor roller-coaster imitator.

Seats list and rumble in time with the action, and whenever possible a water mist spritzes you from below the screen. Valeria and Olga take a long time thoughtfully browsing through the movies, most of which they have seen, and pick three. We bump and shake our way through a heavy-metal-scored dinosaur attack, a supernatural haunted house, and a sci-fi flight sequence that includes a detour into a giant worm's stomach water-spritz time.

Afterward, Valeria takes a shine to a particular wall of the theater lobby—it goes well with her outfit—so Olga, the Beta Barbie, photographs her against it. The ticket taker watches them from her booth, transfixed.

We walk through the mall, maneuvering around clusters of children out with their parents. I begin to wonder whether a nuclear family—the ostensible endgame of the Odessa bride—is in the cards for Valeria and Olga.

I carefully broach the subject. The topic has clearly shaken something loose in Valeria. In her view, expressed in a staccato rant, parenting is the pinnacle of selfishness. They just try to shape her according to some weird script—whatever they couldn't do in life, like becoming a writer or a doctor.

Or some woman who's almost 30 and thinks no one needs her, she says, 'Oh, I'll have a kid. He will love me and become my reason to live. So they can get you a glass of water when you're on your deathbed?

Snake charmers: Valeria left displays impressive serpent-handling skills with one of her acolytes, Olga Dominika Oleynik. It's Valentine's day in Odessa, and half the city walks around with flowers and red balloons.

Strip clubs and marriage agencies are hawking discounts. A steak house called SteakHouse, a prime foreigner pickup spot, fills with the standard Ukrainian combos of beautiful women and old men.

Valeria says she is too busy to meet me today. On her Valentine's Day schedule: a salon called Angel of a Genius, to freshen up those fractal nail patterns from the twenty-first dimension, which will take about three hours, then the gym for a couple of hours of hydrotherapy i. Tonight she is guesting on a Turkish talk show in Istanbul. Dmitry is coming too, on his own dime. Using the salon's bizarre name, I decide to find it and ambush Barbie there.

I walk into what turns out to be an ordinary white-walled space and find Valeria seated between a morose fifty-something lady and a chestnut-haired teen, both getting traditional French nails in our own three dimensions. Valeria is only about 60 percent Barbie today; it even takes me a second to pick her out among the clientele. She is dressed in a gray cashmere sweater and a pair of snug jeans, her makeup pale and minimal. Her eyes seem smaller.

A pink-faced Ukrainian master is seated opposite her, deftly working a nail file. Valeria's frail hand atop hers looks like E. If she is surprised or unhappy to see me, she doesn't let on. I ask her about the Turkish TV show: Is this part of a larger plan for international expansion?

Why waste myself on this? Earlier in the year, the duo visited the States to gauge the level of showbiz interest; the visit itself was reported by everyone from V Magazine to Gawker, and Valeria enjoyed a nice feud with America's own "Human Ken," Justin Jedlica, but none of it generated any Hollywood offers. The first one had long been announced on her website, then moved, then canceled. She's also working on a New Age opera, because why not. Through a combination of plastic surgery, makeup, and self-starvation, she achieved the look in uncanny fashion.

She really did look like a Barbie doll. And not just in some general way: you know, insanely small waist, large bust, long blonde hair. She looked just like a Barbie doll: all those things, plus plastic-looking skin and a vacant stare. It was easy to assume that Lukyanova was just another young woman in a world of global popular culture who'd internalized oppressive beauty ideals. Lukyanova sat down recently for an interview with GQ magazine.

I knew that she and fellow human Barbie Alina Kovalevskaya used to be friends, but currently hate each other, and in researching other living dolls for this series, I reached out to both Valeria and Alina in hopes that maybe someone would respond.

No dice on Alina—after a little back and forth, she expressed that she wasn't interested after I told her that we weren't offering payment for the interview. I didn't expect to hear back from Valeria since she is a pretty big deal in the human Barbie realm, but within minutes of sending out my initial inquiry, she responded.

Since Russian is her first language, she agreed to do the interview over email, and I sent over my list of questions. If it weren't for the language barrier, we could probably get a rapport going on the existance of aliens they're real, FYI , and the top 10 best spells out there. My childhood was very cheerful. I attended interesting clubs, and I had many hobbies. For example, I did hand-to-hand fighting in aikido, as well as target shooting.

I went on hikes, and went in for tourism. I've always been fond of astronomy. My childhood was very rich. There wasn't really a moment, even when I was assigned this image.

I play the role that I like this image, but really, I'm indifferent to it. I actually like very different images—my favorites are from the world of fantasy like elves, warriors, and Amazons. I'm constantly in the process of transformation. My inner world is changing, and the exterior changes to go along with it. Now, I am a body fitness model, a real Amazon warrior, and I like it. This is my ideal look, but there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done on my figure.

I've DJed a few times now! I like doing this work because music is what inspires me.