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**deathholydeath**

Not a fan of the huge honkers, but I wouldn't let that stop me if given a chance.
As noted before, I find the doll face oddly alluring.

**Chowderhead**

deathholydeath wrote:Not a fan of the huge honkers, but I wouldn't let that stop me if given a chance.
As noted before, I find the doll face oddly alluring.

The face looks way to artificial to be anything but creepy, IMHO.

**infinite_array**

Agree with Chowder. Nice body, but the face is waaay too creepy. And I'd bet her personality is as woo... plastic as the actual toy.

Of course, this is why mankind invented the brown paper bag.

Overall:

**Melissia**

Hey, plastic is malleable.

**Chowderhead**

Melissia wrote:Hey, plastic is malleable.

So if I bust out the hairdryer and greenstuffing tools I can make Milla Jovovitch?

Sweet!

**deathholydeath**

I like creepy.

**Sgt_Scruffy**

The more makeup she has on, the weirder it gets. I'm not totally unattracted to her present form sans makeup. It's when she intentionally goes for the doll look that things get weird.

**SlaveToDorkness**

Melissia wrote:
Alexzandvar wrote:I would hit it like a speeding train. I love big chests.
They're fake, so be careful or they might pop.

If theres no chance I'll ever touch them to be able to tell the difference, they're ALL real.

**CT GAMER**

I wonder if she has met "living Ken Doll"?

He is also rather spooky...

**SlaveToDorkness**

See, now that's just SAD.

**Sgt_Scruffy**

He just looks sad. Same general "uncanny valley" effect.

**Commisar Von Humps**

I really don't get it. These women are stunning and spectacular in every physical aspect, yet they feel like they need more? I do not condemn them for it, but i just think its a little strange, life goes on though.

**Lone Cat**

Amaya wrote:http://www.forbes.com/sites/katyasoldak/2012/05/06/deconstructing-a-ukrainian-barbie/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/real-life-barbie-stirs-debate-over-cosmetic-surgery-155921833.html

A Ukrainian woman who turned herself into a real-life Barbie has been all over the Internet recently: a twenty-something blond from the Ukrainian city Odessa morphed into a living Barbie with the help of plastic surgery, eyelash extensions and colored contact lenses. She’s posing in pictures as the iconic plastic Barbie doll made by Mattel.

Her doll-like images appear weirdly convincing, although after taking a closer look at her it turns out she is not such a Barbie doll after all: she’s just a regular Eastern European chick, who used some amateur PR tools available in our digital age and magically got her moment of fame, involuntarily fooling Western media, hungry for anything sensational and not bothering to do their research, especially if the subject comes from a foreign country.

It’s interesting to see how taking something as shallow as the Ukrainian Barbie story out of context creates a sensation. A few weird-looking pictures of a 5 ft. 7 inch tall girl with wide empty-looking eyes, a tiny, heavily lipsticked mouth, and fake bust — accompanied by a couple of comments calling her a real-life size doll — became a sensational story that wound up on major media websites, such as ABC news and Business Insider.

The matter has been discussed in all seriousness. “Plastic surgery should not been used to transform oneself into a favorite celebrity or, in this case, a plastic toy,” the President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons said. “If society expects women to look like that, it is harder for almost any woman to totally resist it, ” said the author of the book “So Sexy So soon: The Next Sexualized Childhood and How Parents Can Protect Their Kids” in an interview on abcnews.com.

Not everyone has looked for depth. Most questioned whether her images had been Photoshop’d, and if they haven’t, what exactly was altered by surgeries. Slim waist? She’s taken a couple of ribs out. Narrow, doll-like chin? Surgically reduced jaw. Breast implants? Well, this is something that Barbie herself doesn’t deny in her videos in which she goes over each detail of her appearance. According to her, getting breast implants is a procedure of the same sort as visiting a dentist. Real-life Barbie explains that slim waist is genetically inherited by women in her family, however, she admits that some creative make up helps to enhance her natural beauty.

According to the Barbie’s social networks profiles, her name is Valeria Lukyanova, she’s in her early twenties, a graduate from Odessa State Academy of Constructions and Architecture. The girl seems to be somewhat confused about her course in life. Barbie-like appearance is only one slice of her rich personality. She blogs, writes songs, is interested in New Age spirituality and is into out-of-body experiences. With the help of her little i-Phone camera, Lukyanova records incoherent video messages and posts them on YouTube. The young lady likes talking about her own beauty and uniqueness, and openly addresses questions of her possible plastic surgeries.

She likes to give advice: her statements are full of wisdom about life, finding the right way to live, not expecting manna falling from heaven, and anti-alcohol philosophies. In her videos she appears, though, as if under the influence of something, with her head leaning towards one shoulder, as if her neck is incapable of staying vertical, her eyes looking above the camera as she’s elucidates.

In her short travel videos she looks pretty much like a provincial tourist from Eastern Europe, wrapped tightly in a spandex dress, wobbling in her stilettos, trying to walk over some ancient ruins among other tourists dressed in shapeless jeans and white sneakers.

Not long ago Traveler’s digest magazine put Russia and Ukraine among the top five countries with the most beautiful women, naming Kyiv home to the world’s most beautiful ladies. Sure, Barbie Lukyanova is a true representative of her land. But with no real interesting story behind that Barbie phenomena the most interesting thing becomes how western media has blown it completely out of proportion and created sensation where none existed.

Someone linked this story on Facebook earlier and this woman actually really looks like a bloody doll. Naturally this has sparked up the debate about obsession with plastic surgery and whether or not Barbie dolls have a negative influence on girls.

Edit:

The following is indeed a real person.

Spoiler:

She is a 'MUST' thing in Pattaya!!

i've heard that there's another british or american girl having herself a big surgery to become a living Barbie.
and she has a benghal kitty meow

**Piston Honda**

CT GAMER wrote:I wonder if she has met "living Ken Doll"?

He is also rather spooky...

So he had his penis removed?

**Amaya**

The living Ken Doll is several orders of magnitude weirder than Heidi Montag and the Ukrainian barbie. He's had fething fake muscles implanted and they look idiotic. You can't simply insert plastic and make it look like real muscle, you'd actually have to insert some sort of tissue similar to muscle than actually contracts based on movement.

If someone actually wanted to look like Ken they should just get facial work depending on their original and use some steroids if they're too lazy to weight for natural gains from weightlifting.

**azazel the cat**

Melissia wrote:She needs more meat on her bones too.

That waist looks so thin... like she'd just snap in half in the middle of a brisk jog.

YMMV I gueses.

Her middle looks great. I'm all in favour of skinny, athletic women.

infinite_array wrote:Agree with Chowder. Nice body, but the face is waaay too creepy. And I'd bet her personality is as woo... plastic as the actual toy.

No, I'd bet her personality is completely broken and full of disorders and baggage. But wooden... no.

**dogma**

azazel the cat wrote:
Her middle looks great. I'm all in favour of skinny, athletic women.

Skinny generally means the woman is not athletic in much the same way it does for men. For example, this is Hannah Teter:

Hanah Teter is a professional snowboarder, and she's 5'5 145 lbs.

**CT GAMER**

Piston Honda wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:I wonder if she has met "living Ken Doll"?

He is also rather spooky...

So he had his penis removed?

Not sure, but he claims to have had $300,000+ of procedures done, so maybe...

**Dreadwinter**

Since we are talking about her breasts.

We are all aware that Barbie has no nipples, right? Just think about that.

**azazel the cat**

dogma wrote:
azazel the cat wrote:
Her middle looks great. I'm all in favour of skinny, athletic women.

Skinny generally means the woman is not athletic in much the same way it does for men. For example, this is Hannah Teter:

Hanah Teter is a professional snowboarder, and she's 5'5 145 lbs.

And my s/o is 5'7 and 110 lbs, and quite fit.

I think you'll find that different sports will be more appropriate for various body types. My s/o, for example, plays volleyball; competitively once upon a time. That sport is much more conducive to being skinny (think of a body type like Keira Knightly or Milla Jovovich) than would, say, professional fighting, which focuses on shoulder girth, like Gina Carano (much wider but still pretty hot).

EDIT: and the whole "skinny =/= athletic" rhetoric is just something broader girls say to try and put down the skinnier ones.

**Lone Cat**

dogma wrote:Heidi Montag, take 2.

1. a 'before ' look still looks better for me =^.^=
2. She should wear the SAME lingerie in the right picture too! this is a girly discussion so i'll discuss this with a group of Kylie fans elsewhere
3. She looks better with a curled hair meow.

**dogma**

azazel the cat wrote:
I think you'll find that different sports will be more appropriate for various body types. My s/o, for example, plays volleyball; competitively once upon a time. That sport is much more conducive to being skinny (think of a body type like Keira Knightly or Milla Jovovich) than would, say, professional fighting, which focuses on shoulder girth, like Gina Carano (much wider but still pretty hot).

I'm aware that different sports create different body types, I worked as a trainer for a number of years. But at the elite level you won't find many skinny volleyball players, certainly not below the waist. All those short, rapid cutting movements, plus the emphasis on squatting motions, has a way of developing the lower body such that its usually quite muscular. The Keira Knightly body type is closer to a distance runner or cyclist (Or someone whose physique significantly impacts their career.) than a volleyball player.

For example, Misty May-Treanor is ~150 lbs (the short one):

azazel the cat wrote:
and the whole "skinny =/= athletic" rhetoric is just something broader girls say to try and put down the skinnier ones.

Not really. Being skinny doesn't mean you're going to be athletic, you might be skinny and athletic but the two aren't interchangeable. I would honestly be surprised if the girl in the OP could run a mile, or do the equivalent in non-bounce-inducing cardio.

**Lone Cat**

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

Yeah...that's vile....really.....

Actually this IS my type of woman. too bad her boobs are (supposedly) not natural mew!
since i'm still single. my Ideal woman should be
1. Blonde
2. White (favorably either French, Brits, Americans, Oz or Nzers).... sovieti modelswoman is okay for me

3. have a good shape. but should not be anoxeric skinny. yes she should be healthy too!
personally i'm more a fan of 40s - 50s hollywood pinups =^.^=
4. (compulsory at best) Kylie fan.
5. Also a fan of feline beings.
this is five basic attributes of my dream girl.

What about you? are you still single or get yourself an attache' ? if you are still a single man. what's your type of girl? and reasons you speak against Valeria Lukyanova ?

EDIT: is the likes of Am Patcharapa C. your type?

Items of note
- She always referred as "อั้ม" which should be either romanized as Am or Um. however, she chose to romanize her nick as "Aum".. which it is a bad romanization. it could be pronounced as "Om" instead
- She began her (Lakorn) actress career as a villain. and always she is. However in the flicks. she was sometimes. a protagonista.
- She is said (and .. ahem. admitted) to be through plastic surgery (and all is done in Thailand)
- It is said that Korean girls admire her beauty (?), and so does Chinese
- I'm not sure if she has any potentials to go to Hollywood. Do you want her to be filmed there?
- She is NOT my type. I'm also suspected that she might challenging my number one diva. Kylie Minogue. .. at some point.

meow/

**Melissia**

azazel the cat wrote:And my s/o is 5'7 and 110 lbs, and quite fit.

No, she is not. 5'7" 110lbs is unhealthily underweight. She's not "fit" by any means.

Even a very small framed woman at 5'7" should be at least 125-135 pounds to be healthy. Her weight would make sense if she was five foot nothing, but not at 5'7".

**mattyrm**

Yeah she cant be that fit like, I just asked my missus her current stats, and she is 5"5 and 116lbs. She has a great figure, but its after she started lifting weights and I made her do pull ups.

She said she was 106lbs 6 months ago and that was underweight, I think she is in good shape now, maybe not as strong as she should be, but she can crack 6 pull ups and run well.

Two inches taller and 110lbs.. thats gotta be a bit too skinny, she cant have any strength to her!

**Amaya**

Melissia wrote:
azazel the cat wrote:And my s/o is 5'7 and 110 lbs, and quite fit.
No, she is not. 5'7" 110lbs is unhealthily underweight. She's not "fit" by any means.

Even a very small framed woman at 5'7" should be at least 125-135 pounds to be healthy. Her weight would make sense if she was five foot nothing, but not at 5'7".

The average woman at 5'7" 110 would probably not be fit unless she was a marathoner or some other form of extreme endurance athlete. As always, there are exceptions to the rule. There was a girl on at my 3A HS that was around 5'9" 110 (she her calves were probably skinnier than my forearms even back then) that was the school's star softball pitcher and one of the better volleyball players. She was just naturally skinny and a ridiculously fast metabolism.

No, the Ukrainian barbie is probably not remotely fit at all. She has zero muscle tone despite being at a very low body fat percentage. Hell, she has barely any tone in her abs.

**Melissia**

Yeah, 5'5" 116 is on the low end for a small bodied woman (which is 115-130ish).

I'm glad to hear she put on some weight =D There's too many girls who underweight these days, despite the claims that the Western world is getting fat.

Amaya wrote:The average woman at 5'7" 110 would probably not be fit unless she was a marathoner or some other form of extreme endurance athlete.

Not even then. A marathoner is gonna be heavier than that because of their leg muscles, which would have to be developed and toned for endurance to complete the marathon. Sure there's exceptions but the exceptions themselves often are exceptions because of underlying health problems. Same with overweight really.

**Corpsesarefun**

I think that's the first time I've seen you do an emoticon on dakka in the middle of a post Mel.

**mattyrm**

Melissia wrote:Yeah, 5'5" 116 is on the low end for a small bodied woman (which is 115-130ish).

I'm glad to hear she put on some weight =D There's too many girls who underweight these days, despite the claims that the Western world is getting fat.

Amaya wrote:The average woman at 5'7" 110 would probably not be fit unless she was a marathoner or some other form of extreme endurance athlete.
Not even then. A marathoner is gonna be heavier than that because of their leg muscles, which would have to be developed and toned for endurance to complete the marathon. Sure there's exceptions but the exceptions themselves often are exceptions because of underlying health problems. Same with overweight really.

Aye she gained ten pounds since I made her do some pull ups and she got a kettle bell.

Still weak though, she can only do 6 heaves.. but then I might be being a tad harsh by basing her up against my mighty prowess.

I mean, I was checking the laughably puny fitness requirements on the USMC website the other day (thanks to an argument with my missus when she called them "The many the average" and I took umbrage with it!) Anyway, on the annual BFT the men have to do 3 pull ups, and the women only have to hang off the bar for 15 seconds!

So, if she can pass the men's test, she's clearly pretty fit after all eh?

Our BFT involves a 12 mile run and 10 chin ups, and your not allowed to do it without going on the piss all night the day before.

**Amaya**

Melissia wrote:Yeah, 5'5" 116 is on the low end for a small bodied woman (which is 115-130ish).

I'm glad to hear she put on some weight =D There's too many girls who underweight these days, despite the claims that the Western world is getting fat.

Amaya wrote:The average woman at 5'7" 110 would probably not be fit unless she was a marathoner or some other form of extreme endurance athlete.
Not even then. A marathoner is gonna be heavier than that because of their leg muscles, which would have to be developed and toned for endurance to complete the marathon. Sure there's exceptions but the exceptions themselves often are exceptions because of underlying health problems. Same with overweight really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Radcliffe

Current women's record holder in the marathon. 5'8" 120. Long distance runners are all tiny.