Ukrainian girls from the city of Odessa keep making the news for altering their appearance in dramatic fashion. The story of a girl who turned herself into a real life Barbie doll has spread across the globe and the saga continues. Two more girls, Anime and Dominika, have become living dolls and received publicity for their disturbing looks.
Anime, 19-year-old Anastasiya Shpagina, transformed herself into an anime character and never leaves the house without makeup. Applying the makeup takes Anime a few hours to accomplish so she wakes up at 5 a.m. to make it to work on time. When she walks down the street in a fairy-like outfit, with long purplish hair, looking at the world with her raccoon-like eyes, it doesn’t go unnoticed. “I don’t pay attention to reactions, the most important thing for me is my comfort,” Anime said during a talk show on a Ukrainian TV channel.

In interviews with Anime, which appeared on mainstream television in Ukraine and Russia over the past months, she gave the impression of being a pleasant, slightly naïve, girl, who is living in a dream and plays a fairy in a fairytale. She subsists almost entirely on honey-dew—no bread, meat or fish; mostly fruit and veggies. However, she is probably not as naïve as a fairy—her extreme makeup and unconventional style serve as a great promotional tool.

Anime is a hairdresser and makeup artist so all that publicity will, hopefully, work well for her career. She said that right now she’s interested in focusing on her work, but in the future would like to move out of the city and have a family. She says she doesn’t have a boyfriend and states that she would like to have plastic surgery to enlarge her eyes, to make them the size of the ones she paints on her face with makeup. She claims she hasn’t had any plastic surgery and her look is only the visual effect of styling and make up.
Unlike her, Barbie – also known as Valeriya Lukyanova – and her friend, Olga Oleynik, aka Dominika, had breast surgeries and accentuate their “Barbiness” with long hair, giant eyes, contact lenses, small mouths, tiny waists, curvy hips, full busts, and slightly manipulative unemotional manners. In a talk show, Barbie said her measurements were 86/47/86, in centimeters, which in inches equals 33.85/18.5/33.85. Olga Oleynik said that she has had breast surgery to balance the proportion with her hips because she is all about harmony and perfection.

What is it that makes these girls turn themselves into living dolls? A struggle for perfection or escape from reality?

It seems to have a connection to “Barbie doll syndrome” – when young girls try to attain impossible standards of beauty – but with Odessa girls it varies from case to case.

Anime seems to be a young girl who’s not completely comfortable in her skin and experiments with styles. Anime’s body image doesn’t radiate Barbie’s sexiness. She says the world is cruel and is full of unhappy people and it’s easier to live the way she does, creating a fairy tale for herself.


Barbie, whose spiritual name is Amatue, openly says she exploits her looks as internet PR to attract people to her lectures on esoteric subjects where – for $80 per person – she teaches astral projection.

Dominika seems to be similar to Barbie and calls herself her spiritual sister. They appear together in interviews and talk about esoteric matters. She positions herself as an artist and a fashion designer.

Whatever this ‘Barbie-Flu’ in Odessa is, it seems to be creating a phenomena that the world is watching with great interest, clicking through the weird pictures and videos, looking into their doll-like eyes. Barbie, Anime, Dominika—what’s next?

Source: Forbes.com

Pics of Anastasiya Shpagina

Valeriya Lukyanova human barbie

Dominika Elsandio Kjósa

okay... i hope they get the cure soon.... antiritro-barbie drug

Interesting indeed

Make-up gone wrong. Well done for trying though.

Those eyes look horrible, btw. I thought "Joker" was a freak, now this?


Please, Please, to the Newbies - DO NOT QUOTE THE ENTIRE POST WHILST REPLYING

Why did i waste my data......arrrg!

Person don thief abiL's thread

na lie these are cartoons.

Naija girls fine pass these barbie girls

jammyng: Why did i waste my data......arrrg!

lol...i had to click 'STOP' when i see my opera mobile loading...1.5mb at just 40%

Quite cool even though its kinda weird. I can see this look for Halloween but not daily. I wonder how they get that plastic finish look for their face.

Waiting to see them in 30 years time.

I wonder what they'll look like when they are 50 and above with all these fake stuffs all over them.

honeric01: Waiting to see them in 30 years time.

I wonder what they'll look like when they are 50 and above with all these fake stuffs all over them.

I tried to create a "Mental Picture". You don't want to imagine that - Trust Me!

i see where nicki minaj got her barbie inspiration from.

^^^^^^ Good Point.

HQ:

I tried to create a "Mental Picture". You don't want to imagine that - Trust Me!

They'll look like an old doll dumped in the bin filled up with patches and holes

honeric01:

They'll look like an old doll dumped in the bin filled up with patches and holes

. . .And their eyes would look like a Frog with Conjunctivitis.

HQ:




. . .And their eyes would look like a Frog with Conjunctivitis.

Low self esteem is what is driving them into doing all these rubbish, same with those who pierce/tattoos their body (public parts and lousy ones), trying to attract attention by all means because they feel unworthy to be noticed the way they are.

honeric01:

Low self esteem is what is driving them into doing all these rubbish, same with those who pierce/tattoos their body, trying to attract attention by all means because they feel unworthy to be noticed the way they are.

I disagree with what you said about people that pierce and tattoos for attention. Thats not true at all. You couldnt be farther from the truth

candieangel12:

I disagree with what you said about people that pierce and tattoos for attention. Thats not true at all. You couldnt be farther from the truth

Why did you say so? okay, let me modify it to those with visible and lousy tattoos and piercing, is this better now?

She'll definitely get tired of it in a few years to come.

honeric01:
Why did you say so? okay, let me modify it to those who visible and lousy tattoos and piercing, is this better now?

Still not okay. I have visible piercings but my tats are hidden, but they arent for attention. So I really take offense to your statement. Most ppl get tats and piercings for various reasons and not for attention. I havent met anyone that got tats n piercings 4 attention, that wud be really pathetic.

candieangel12:

Still not okay. I have visible piercings but my tats are hidden, but they arent for attention. So I really take offense to your statement. Most ppl get tats and piercings for various reasons and not for attention. I havent met anyone that got tats n piercings 4 attention, that wud be really pathetic.

Hmm, Well why else did they get them for? Just the "fun" of it?

Almost everyone I've met with either a piercing or a tattoo, did it for "Attention".

Wow...really really weird.

HQ:

Hmm, Well why else did they get them for? Just the "fun" of it?

Almost everyone I've met with either a piercing or a tattoo, did it for "Attention".

I got my tattoos for sentimental reasons. I got my piercings because I liked the way the look. I love my bodyart because its apart of me. Attention seeking hasnt even crossed my mind for getting body art. N im yet to meet any1 that wud go thru the pain and healing just to get attention.