These People Turned Themselves Into Real Life Barbie Dolls

Valeria Lukyanova has a doll-like look that's so unbelievably striking that she became the subject of a short Vice documentary and even nabbed a role in a horror flick called The Doll (you can guess which part she played). Though the Odessa-based model has been dubbed a human Barbie in the press, she doesn't think she bears much resemblance to the blonde collectable.

"I do not think that I look like a Barbie," she told Too Fab. "I think I just look like a classy girl."

Lukyanova spends about an hour and half on makeup every day, which she finds "motivating." Rumors have been swirling about Lukyanova's giant eyes, which look so impossibly big it'd be shocking if she didn't achieve them through surgery. Commenters claim she had her eyelids trimmed, but she denied those assertions in 2016.

Lukyanova instead attributes her beauty to a bizarrely racist ideology (and a liquid diet). She believes that classic beauty cannot be achieved without plastic surgery in the modern age because people are "race-mixing." In an eye opening GQ interview, she explained her point of view.

"For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad's nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it's all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there's degeneration, and it didn't used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this. I love the Nordic image myself. I have white skin; I am a Nordic type - perhaps a little Eastern Baltic, but closer to Nordic."

Okay.

Olga Oleynik, AKA Dominika, is another Odessa-based Barbie. In fact, she's often referred to as Valeria Lukyanova's twin (they are IRL besties who met online – what are the odds?).

Much like Lukyanova, Oleynik went to great lengths to look like a Barbie. She had a breast augmentation and regularly wears contact lenses to give her doll's eyes.

If you happen to see two real-life Barbie dolls strolling down the street together Toy Story-style, don't be alarmed. In 2012, the pair moved to America together, and our humble country has never been the same.

Angelica Kenova, a Russian model, claims her desire to be a living doll came from her sheltered upbringing.

"Growing up, my parents raised me like a princess and never let me go out, date boys or have the usual adult experiences. As a result, I am not fit for real life - I'm like a living doll," she said in an interview. "My mum and dad have been overprotective all my life. Some parents practically chuck their child out of the family home when they reach the age of 18, but not mine."

Kenova (aka "Russian Barbie") developed an obsession with Barbie around age six when her mother started buying her different Barbie dolls and dressing her up like a real-life doll. According to the model, her mother urged and inspired her to look just like the Barbie, and she would spend hours posing in the mirror striving to get the perfect look, which she's pretty much mastered. Eyes that devoid of emotion and body language that stiff doesn't just appear one day overnight – it's hard work.

Though Kenova looks like a real-life doll, she claims she hasn't gotten any plastic surgery to achieve her look. Instead, she got in shape the old fashioned way - a strict diet and intense workout regime.

Odessa, Ukraine, is a breeding ground for human Barbies. Alina Kovalevskaya is no exception. Just like her predecessors, the Odessa-based model denies that she's had plastic surgery to achieve her doll-like look. Instead, she grew out her hair until it was a meter long and naturally has a little nose, big eyes, and small, plump lips.

Barbie's proportions are impossible to achieve, and Kovalevskaya doesn't even try. Instead, she focuses on Barbie's facial features. She's also surprisingly normal. According to The Huffington Post, she studied psychology in college.

Not everyone who wants to be a real-life Barbie can rely on natural looks and extreme dieting (even if most of us don't believe the ones who say they do). Pixee Fox, a reality TV star, underwent 200 surgeries to look like a real-life Barbie doll. The North Carolina resident has spent roughly $668,700 on extreme surgeries, which included having six ribs removed and several breast augmentations. She flew to India to undergo a dangerous surgery that changed the color of her eyes, a procedure that's banned in Europe and America, and she flew to Korea to have another surgery that changed her jaw shape, which could have left her paralyzed.

If you recognize Pixee, that's because she appeared on the British reality show Plastic & Proud. She has a massive fanbase with nearly 500,000 followers on Instagram. Pixee currently shares a home with Justin Jedlica, a real-life Ken doll. Yup, plastic surgery-obsessed Barbie and Ken found each other. 

New York-bred Justin Jedlica spent a whopping $535,000 to look like a real-life Ken doll. He's had 340 cosmetic procedures and gone under the knife over 190 times.

Jedlica didn't always want to look like a Mattel toy. He became obsessed with his body back in the '90s when he started watching Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. He wanted to be like the wealthy people on the show.

“They’d all had plastic surgery and I wanted to have it too because that was what rich people did," he admitted to The Sun.

Jedlica had his first cosmetic surgery at age 18. He got a nose job, a brow life, chest, bicep and tricep implants and had his brow bone shaved. Jedlica sites over-the-top celebrities and Barbie dolls as his main inspiration.

“I think (dolls) played a part for sure when I was a kid I had more Barbies I think than Kens. I was really struck by celebrities like Michael Jackson, Joan Rivers, Dolly Parton," he said. "To me plastic surgery is very emblematic of wealth, I was brought up in a very low income family, we didn’t have a lot of money, so you had to work to survive.”

Justin got divorced in 2016 and vowed to live with Pixee Fox as a real-life Barbie and Ken couple.