The world got to know Valeria Lukyanova, also known as the "Real-life Barbie" after several of her pictures went viral last year. The 22-year-old Ukrainian model had been dubbed as a "human Barbie" because of her teeny-tiny waist, big blue eyes, razor-sharp features and straight blonde hair.
Many people claimed the model used plastic surgery to create the appearance of the Barbie doll but in a new video Lukyanova is claiming that she isn't even human at all.
The young model recently did a documentary for Vice magazine, called "Space Barbie" where she allowed cameras to capture a sneak-peek into her world and her spirituality. Spirituality has been something very special and close to the model for a while, the Huffington Post reports. She has even given herself the spiritual name "Amatue."
In the interview for Vice Lukyanova talks about how she believes she is originally from the planet Venus and was only sent here as a "time-traveling spiritual guru whose purpose is to save the world from the clutches of superficiality and negative energy."
It seems a bit odd for the Ukrainian model to want to rid mankind of superficiality when she focuses a lot of her own physical appearance.
"She seems to have a quite a lot of issues about her physical self and is incredibly fixated with her image," Vice director Will Fairman the International Business Times.
She also revealed that she often uses her appearance to promote and talk about spirituality admitting that at one point she went for professional help because of the voices she was hearing in her head.
"I asked myself if everything was alright with my head. I hear voices all the time and see different beings. One day I decided to visit a psychiatrist. I told him everything," she said in the video. "He listened to me carefully and said I was very lucky it was him because with another doctor I definitely would have been taken to a special place."
Even though Lukyanova has been criticized for looking like a real-life doll she claims that is was never her intentions. In the documentary she said that she loves things that are "beautiful, feminine and refined" and that is often times equated to a doll.
"She's always had this doll-like look, but a doll is associated with an unintelligent person, and since my sister has always been very bright and interesting, I've never associated her with a Barbie," her sister said in the video.
