Valeria Lukyanova

Lukyanova was born 1985, in Tiraspol, in what was then part of Moldavian SSR in the Soviet Union.{{Cite web |date=12 November 2012 |title=Living Barbie Doll Valeria Lukyanova Reveals Her Spiritual Side |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/12/barbie-doll-valeria-lukyanova_n_2116129.html |access-date=18 September 2013 |website=Huffington Post}} She is of Russian origin. Her mother, Irina, worked for the military sector and her father was a construction worker, who also was a part-time disc jockey.{{Cite web |title=Things to Know About The Private Life of Living Doll |url=http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/438037/20130222/5-things-know-secret-private-life-living.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130920191144/http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/438037/20130222/5-things-know-secret-private-life-living.htm |archive-date=20 September 2013 |website=International Business Times}} Lukyanova lived in Odesa, Ukraine from age 16 until 2014, when she moved to Moscow.{{Cite web |date=7 April 2014 |title=Valeria Lukyanova, the Human Barbie Doll |url=https://www.gq.com/women/photos/201404/valeria-lukyanova-human-barbie-doll}}

In 2007, Lukyanova won the worldwide beauty contest "Miss Diamond Crown of the World".{{Cite web |title=Одесская "Барби" Валерия Лукьянова: "Моя внешность — это упорный труд и хорошие гены" |url=https://fakty.ua/148485-valeriya-lukyanova-moya-vneshnost---eto-upornyj-trud-i-horoshie-geny |website=fakty.ua}}{{Cite web |title=Valeria Lukyanova – winning a beauty contest |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPH3FpzguWk |website=YouTube| date=10 May 2012 }} The beauty pageant was open to any woman, had about 300 contestants, and had no rule forbidding plastic surgery or body modification.{{Cite web |date=14 May 2007 |title=Бриллиантовая корона 2007 |url=http://rkm.kiev.ua/otdyh-i-razvlechenija/7389/}}{{Cite web |title=Бриллиантовая корона» – всеукраинский конкурс красоты |url=http://missinternet.kiev.ua/beautycontest/briliantovaya-korona-konkurs-krasoti.html}} She subsequently had multiple photo sessions and interviews published in Russian media, including erotic photos.{{Cite web |title=Валерия Лукьянова |url=http://fashiony.ru/page.php?id_n=12084 |access-date=19 September 2013 |archive-date=3 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403193024/http://fashiony.ru/page.php?id_n=12084 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Медицинский центр ПрофМедЛаб у метро 1905 года |url=https://profmedlab.ru/ |website=profmedlab.ru}}{{Cite web |title=Популярная Барби Валерия Лукьянова снялась обнаженной для западного глянца (Popular "Barbie" Valeria Lukyanova co-starred for western glossies), archive.org |url=http://gipoteza.net/glamour/events/9938-populyarnaya-barbi-valeriya-lukiyanova-snyalasi-obnagennoi-dlya-zapadnogo-glyanca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709184125/http://gipoteza.net/glamour/events/9938-populyarnaya-barbi-valeriya-lukiyanova-snyalasi-obnagennoi-dlya-zapadnogo-glyanca |archive-date=9 July 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Одесская Барби обнажилась |url=http://kp.ua/daily/020313/382466 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130920191139/http://kp.ua/daily/020313/382466 |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 September 2013 |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda }} Lukyanova developed a worldwide following for her Barbie doll-like appearance after she posted photos and videos of herself on the web.{{Cite web |title=Living Doll |url=http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/261/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521103046/http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/261/ |archive-date=21 May 2013 |access-date=21 May 2013 |publisher=V Magazine}} She gained notoriety after reports of her "almost inhuman beauty" surfaced online.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} The first notable coverage of her from outside Russia was on the Jezebel blog, followed by a photo session in V by Sebastian Faena. The media described her as being like a living Barbie doll.

There has been scepticism of Lukyanova. ABC News suggested that Lukyanova was a hoax aided by image editing software.{{Cite news |title=Living Doll |work=V Magazine |url=http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/261/living-doll |url-status=dead |access-date=8 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330201805/http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/261/living-doll |archive-date=30 March 2013}} Diane Levin regarded Lukyanova as an example of the negative effects of media objectification.{{Cite news |last=Conley |first=Mikaela |date=23 April 2012 |title=The Real-Life Ukrainian Barbie Doll |work=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/04/23/the-real-life-ukrainian-barbie-doll}} To counter the image editing accusations, Lukyanova posted videos on YouTube and appeared on Russia-1{{Cite web |title=Живая Барби – Валерия Лукъянова |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRJkOjocLo |website=YouTube}} and Channel One Russia{{Cite web |title=Выпуск от 16 марта |url=http://www.1tv.ru/sprojects_edition/si5867/fi22183 |publisher=Channel One Russia}} TV channels. Lukyanova admitted to having breast augmentation but no other plastic surgery,{{Cite web |date=26 April 2012 |title=Living Barbie Doll Valeria Lukyanova Responds To Media Criticism |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/living-barbie-doll-valeria-lukyanova-responds-media-criticism-photos-693301 |website=International Business Times}} and denies that she had ribs removed to make her waist smaller.{{Cite web |title=Valeria Lukyanova vs. yellow journalism |url=http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/style/will-the-real-life-barbie-please-stand-up-valeria-lukyanova-vs-yellow-journalism |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921065335/http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/style/will-the-real-life-barbie-please-stand-up-valeria-lukyanova-vs-yellow-journalism |archive-date=21 September 2013 |access-date=19 September 2013}}{{Cite web |title=Девушка-Барби Валерия Лукьянова пыталась покончить с собой |url=https://sobesednik.ru/skandaly/20121029-devushka-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-pytalas-pokonchit-s-soboi |website=sobesednik.ru}} Lukyanova blamed people unconnected to her for altering photos of her younger self in a malicious attempt to imply she had received body modifications.{{Cite news |last=Nemtsova |first=Anna |date=5 August 2013 |title=16 Questions for the Real-Life Barbie, Valeria Lukyanova |work=The Daily Beast |publisher=The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/05/16-questions-for-the-real-life-barbie-valeria-lukyanova.html}}

In 2013, Lukyanova was the subject of an episode of Vice's My Life Online documentary series entitled Space Barbie.{{Cite news |last=Mosbergen |first=Dominique |date=29 July 2013 |title=Real-Life Barbie Documentary: Valeria Lukyanova, 'Living Barbie,' Featured By Vice (Video) |work=Huffington Post |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/valeria-lukyanova-vice_n_3672260.html}}{{Cite web |title=Space Barbie |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/space-barbie-full-length/ |publisher=Vice}} In 2013 she participated in the documentary movie The Phase, which was released on YouTube in 7 languages.{{Cite web |title=Valeria Lukyanova in documentary "The Phase" on YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?o=U |website=YouTube}}

In 2015, Lukyanova participated in Dosso Dossi's fashion show as a model.{{Cite web |date=17 December 2015 |title=Dosso Dossi Fashion Show'da Candice Swanepoel yerine canlı Barbie Valeria Lukyanova |url=http://www.gazetemag.com/dosso-dossi-fashion-showda-candice-swanepoel-yerine-canli-barbie-valeria-lukyanova/}}{{Cite web |title=Валерия Лукьянова (Барби) в модном показе Dosso Dossi, видео |url=http://nfsbih.net/valeriya-lukyanova-barbi-v-modnom-pokaze-dosso-dossi-video/}}

Lukyanova is an instructor at the School of Out-of-Body Travel, described as "an international school in which our instructors show students how to leave their physical body and travel in their spiritual body." Her spiritual name is Amatue.

She is a composer, an opera singer, and has recorded two albums of new-age music, Sun in the Eyes and 2013 using the name Amatue.{{Cite web |date=26 April 2012 |title=Living Barbie Doll Valeria Lukyanova Responds to Media Criticism [Photos] |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/living-barbie-doll-valeria-lukyanova-responds-media-criticism-photos-693301 |website=International Business Times}} she wrote a book, Astral Travel Amatue, about her astral trips which she made available in 2012 as an RTF file to download for free from her website.

She had her debut starring role in a feature film in The Doll (2017), a horror movie directed and written by Susannah O’Brien. The film, which also includes Mindy Robinson and Ron Jeremy, revolves around Lukyanova's character, an escort made from doll parts created by a doctor to recruit others to kill, and the two men who requested her.{{Cite web |last=Sokol |first=Tony |date=10 November 2015 |title=Ukraine's Human Barbie To Play Evil Doll In Horror Movie |url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/the-doll/250456/ukraines-human-barbie-to-play-evil-doll-in-horror-movie |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711225844/http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/the-doll/250456/ukraines-human-barbie-to-play-evil-doll-in-horror-movie |archive-date=11 July 2016 |access-date=11 July 2016 |website=Den of Geek}}{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Danny |date=11 May 2016 |title=Human Barbie comes to life in trailer for brutal slasher movie - the creepiest thing you'll see today |work=Daily Mirror |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/human-barbie-comes-life-trailer-7950223 |url-status=live |access-date=11 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613151604/http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/human-barbie-comes-life-trailer-7950223 |archive-date=13 June 2016}} The movie presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.{{Cite web |date=November 2017 |title=The Doll Trailer: This Bloodthirsty Barbie Will Creep You Out |url=https://movieweb.com/the-doll-movie-trailer-2017-living-barbie-valeria-lukyanova/}}

She is of Russian origin. She has a bachelor's degree in architecture from Odesa State Academy of Constructions and Architecture.{{Cite news |last=Soldak |first=Katya |date=5 June 2012 |title=Deconstructing a Ukrainian Barbie |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/katyasoldak/2012/05/06/deconstructing-a-ukrainian-barbie/}}

She is married to Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Shkrabov, her childhood friend.{{Cite news |last=Nemtsova |first=Anna |date=5 August 2013 |title=16 Questions for the 'Real-Life Barbie,' Valeria Lukyanova |work=The Daily Beast |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/05/16-questions-for-the-real-life-barbie-valeria-lukyanova.html}}{{Cite web |title=Human Doll, Valeria Lukyanova, Reveals Married Life with Husband |url=http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/440311/20130228/valeria-lukyanova-husband-sex-private-life-news.htm |website=International Business Times |access-date=23 May 2013 |archive-date=21 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055530/http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/440311/20130228/valeria-lukyanova-husband-sex-private-life-news.htm |url-status=dead }} However, Lukyanova said that she does not want to have children or a "family lifestyle."

Lukyanova is a strict raw vegetarian, living on a liquid diet. She said that her weight was 45 kg (100 lb) in 2012. In 2014, she stated she was training herself to live off only light and air and converting to breatharianism, a cult with the central belief that food and possibly water are not necessary for survival.{{Cite news |title='Human Barbie' wants to 'subsist on air and light alone' |language=en-GB |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/human-barbie-says-she-wants-to-subsist-on-air-and-light-alone-9162326.html |access-date=10 June 2018}} However, she later stopped this experiment, stating: "I still would like to do breatharianism someday. But right now, I am far from it, and I do not know when I will do it".{{Cite web |title=Valeria Lukyanova said: I am always unhappy about myself. |url=http://www.moscvichka.ru/moscvichka/2014/09/15/odesskaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-ya-vsegda-soboj-nedovolna-12549.html |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115919/http://www.moscvichka.ru/moscvichka/2014/09/15/odesskaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-ya-vsegda-soboj-nedovolna-12549.html |url-status=dead }}

In 2014, because of the war in Donbas, Lukyanova moved from Odesa to Moscow.{{Cite web |title=Valeria Lukyanova | VK |url=https://vk.com/amatue |website=vk.com}}{{Cite web |date=8 June 2015 |title=Valeria Lukyanova Finds Being Called "Human Barbie" Degrading |url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/a39804/human-barbie-valeria-lukyanova-internets-most-fascinating/}}{{Cite web |title=Одесская Барби увеличивает армию своих фанатов |url=https://kp.ua/culture/511465-odesskaia-barby-uvelychyvaet-armyui-svoykh-fanatov |website=КП в Украине | КП в Україні | KP in Ukraine}}

In 2014, Lukyanova reported to police that she was punched and strangled by two men outside her home, after receiving anonymous threats for over the past two years. She was hospitalized and released a week later.{{Cite web |title=Human Barbie, Valeria Lukyanova, reportedly strangled outside of her home |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2014/11/06/Human-Barbie-Valeria-Lukyanova-reportedly-strangled-outside-of-her-home/5181415272917/}}

Lukyanova caused controversy when she expressed support of Russia during the war in Donbas. She wrote, after posing in the Crimea region: "Do not give up! fight! Our grandfathers fought with bare hands against the fascists! Do not disgrace the honour of the Great Warrior! Be aware that Russia is always with you!"{{Cite web |date=4 August 2014 |title=Британцы обвинили одесскую Барби в сепаратизме |url=https://prawwwda.com/news/4700-britantsy-obvinili-odesskuyu-barbi-v-separatizme |website=prawwwda.com}}{{Cite web |date=1 August 2014 |title=Украинская Барби не гнушается отдыхом в Крыму и поддерживает Путина |url=https://news.obozrevatel.com/show/news/24381-ukrainskaya-barbi-ne-gnushaetsya-otdyihom-v-kryimu-i-podderzhivaet-putina.htm |website=OBOZREVATEL NEWS}}

According to a 2014 article on GQ, she claimed that race-mixing caused "degeneration" and said that race-mixing was the reason why there are presumably less beautiful women today. About her own looks, she said, "I have white skin; I am a Nordic type - perhaps a little Eastern Baltic, but closer to Nordic."{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Tracy |title='Human Barbie' Valeria Lukyanova blames 'race-mixing' for plastic surgery popularity |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/human-barbie-race-mixing-prompts-plastic-surgery-rise-article-1.1748615 |website=nydailynews.com|date=7 April 2014 }}{{Cite web |date=7 April 2014 |title=Human Barbie Is A 'Racist Space Alien' Says GQ |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/08/valeria-lukyanova-human-barbie-gq_n_5105061.html |website=HuffPost UK}}{{Cite web |last=Gupta |first=Prachi |date=8 April 2014 |title=GQ: Human Barbie is a "racist space alien" |url=https://www.salon.com/2014/04/08/gq_human_barbie_is_a_racist_space_alien/ |website=Salon}} She also claimed that a girl born to a Russian mother and an Armenian father would need to go through plastic surgery to reduce the size of her nose.{{Cite web |last=Garcia |first=Megan |title=Valeria Lukyanova says kids bring out |url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/valeria-lukyanova-kids-unacceptable-human-barbies-controversial-comments-to-gq-magazine/36621.htm |website=www.christiantoday.com|date=7 April 2014 }}{{better source|date=November 2024}}

In 2022, she criticised the sanctions imposed on Russia as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian War and said that those sanctions would hurt models who couldn't compete in international organisations.{{Cite web |date=4 April 2022 |title=Одесская Барби Лукьянова посмеялась над санкциями, сбежав в россию, а потом в США: "Пострадали кошки" |url=https://sport.znaj.ua/ru/422837-odeska-barbi-luk-yanova-posmiyalasya-nad-sankciyami-vtikshi-v-rosiyu-a-potim-v-ssha-postrazhdali-kishki}}

Throughout her career, she has received various nicknames referring to her Barbie-like appearance. She has most commonly been referred to as "The Human Barbie".{{Cite web |last=Odhiambo |first=Helix |date=30 January 2020 |title=Mind-blowing Human Barbie before and after photos |url=https://www.legit.ng/1295869-the-human-barbie-valeria-lukyanova-photos.html |website=Legit.ng - Nigeria news.}}{{Cite news |last=Mychaskiw |first=Marianne |title=A Conversation with Human Barbie, Valeria Lukyanova |url=https://www.instyle.com/beauty/valeria-lukyanova-human-barbie-interview |website=InStyle}}

In Russian-speaking media, she's often been referred to as "The Russian Barbie,"{{Cite web |title=Русская барби до и после. Украинская барби, валерия лукьянова, показала себя без кукольного макияжа и фотошопа. Сходство внешних данных с матерью |url=https://uofa.ru/russkaya-barbi-do-i-posle-ukrainskaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-pokazala/ |website=uofa.ru}}{{Cite web |title="Русская Барби" Валерия Лукьянова предлагает приватные уроки по вебкамере |url=https://vladtime.ru/shou_biznes/661348 |website=ВладТайм - самые независимые новости}}{{Cite web |title=Валерия Лукьянова - русская кукла Барби |url=http://funpress.ru/neobychnoe/539-valeriya-lukyanova-russkaya-kukla-barbi.html |website=Строительный портал: новости, статьи, обзоры}}{{Cite web |title="Русская Барби" - Валерия Лукьянова, сразила наповал снимком с пляжа |url=https://znamenitka.ru/140354-russkaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-srazila-napoval-snimkom-s-plyazha.html |website=znamenitka.ru}} "The Ukrainian Barbie,"{{Cite web |title=Фото: Украинская "Барби" Валерия Лукьянова |url=http://russian.people.com.cn/31519/8102675.html |website=russian.people.com.cn}}{{Cite web |last=Дурова |first=Дарья |date=17 June 2021 |title=Украинская Барби после обвинений в фотошопе и пластике поделилась детскими фото |url=https://news.obozrevatel.com/show/people/ukrainskaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-pokazala-detskie-foto-posle-obvinenij-v-fotoshope.htm |website=OBOZREVATEL NEWS}}{{Cite web |last=Гришин |first=Игорь |date=11 January 2022 |title=Украинская "Барби" призналась, что видит духов |url=https://novyny.live/ru/shou-biznes/ukrainskaia-barbi-priznalas-chto-vidit-dukhov-33989.html |website=novyny.live}} and "The Odesa Barbie."{{Cite web |title=Одесская Барби резко сдала и постарела: фото 36-летней Валерии Лукьяновой до и после |url=https://www.rbc.ua/rus/styler/odesskaya-barbi-rezko-sdala-postarela-foto-1636879125.html |website=РБК-Украина}}{{Cite web |date=26 May 2021 |title="Одесская Барби" Валерия Лукьянова: как сейчас выглядит девушка, решившая стать куклой (фото) |url=https://telegraf.com.ua/zhizn/zhurnal/5647246-odesskaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-kak-seychas-vyiglyadit-devushka-reshivshaya-stat-kukloy-foto.html |website=Телеграф}}{{Cite web |title="Одесская барби" Валерия Лукьянова рассказала, что обладает сверхъестественными способностями |url=https://www.unian.net/lite/stars/odesskaya-barbi-valeriya-lukyanova-rasskazala-chto-obladaet-sverhestestvennymi-sposobnostyami-11667367.html |website=www.unian.net}}{{Cite web |date=18 November 2021 |title=Одесская Барби Валерия Лукьянова утверждает, что ее "завербовали массоны": "Сверхсила" |url=https://sport.znaj.ua/ru/408275-odeska-barbi-valeriya-luk-yanova-stverdzhuye-shcho-jiji-zaverbuvali-masoni-nadsila |website=znaj.ua}}

Lukyanova, has expressed anger at the nickname of "Human Barbie", as she feels that it's "a little degrading and insulting" but that she's used to it now as it's the image her fans "requested" so she has to "comply with it because it's become part of my aesthetic image, but I don't like it".{{Cite news |title=Valeria Lukyanova Says Her 'Human Barbie' Nickname Is 'Degrading' |language=en-US |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/s/valeria-lukyanova-says-her-human-043300456.html |access-date=10 June 2018}}

• 2009: Sun in the Eyes
• 2013: 2013

• "One Expectation" (2013) – by Alessandra Ambrosio ft. Amatue

• 2010: "Venus"{{Cite web |title=Amatue - Venus |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uwdVxUn-Rw |website=YouTube}}
• 2011: "Endless eternity"{{Cite web |title=Amatue - Бесконечная Вечность |url=https://vimeo.com/24531461 |via=vimeo.com}}

• Astral Travel Amatue (2012)

• The Phase (2013) – documentary movie
• The Doll (2017){{Cite news |date=5 November 2017 |title=See 'Human Barbie' Valeria Lukyanova as The Doll |language=en-US |work=Horror Entertainment Magazine |url=https://www.screamhorrormag.com/see-human-barbie-valeria-lukyanova-doll/ |access-date=5 November 2017}}

• Sarah Burge
• Venus Angelic

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