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Grace Rivero
Model, spiritual guide and now Human Barbie. This multifaceted 29-year-old Ukrainian has gone from being the closest living copy of Mattel’s best loved doll to become an icon for hordes of teenagers and an easy target for the media who frown upon her eccentric behaviour. Recently the former model used her Youtube account to show the world what she calls “the true face of the spiritual essence”. In the video, Valeria talked about how happy and fortunate she considers herself to be, and wishes the same to all her critics. She also went on to show her followers that she has no scars, attributing her sculpted anatomy to nothing more than a lot of exercise - 30 minutes of cardio exercises a day. Just three months ago she decided to take part in a Breatharian challenge (a cult
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Valeria Lukyanova It’s taken just over two years for “Human Barbie” Valeria Lukyanova to achieve the fame she so desperately craved – and for which she has put herself under the surgeon’s knife on more than one occasion. And, although she strongly denies any surgery or photoshopping, the fact is that the visible changes seen in before and after photos of her face reveal that she has clearly visited the operating theatre many more times than she’d like to admit.
that claims that you can live on microcosmic energy, i.e air and sunlight, alone). She interrupted the 100day challenge by what she called a signal from the universe telling her to stop. This practice presents serious health risks and has been responsible for at least four known deaths over the past 20 years. However, and perhaps surprisingly, this Ukrainian girl, who in 2011 claimed to be just 21 (which doesn’t add up when you consider that she was born in 1985) is not just a pretty face. She graduated in 2007 with a degree in architecture from the Odessa State Academy of Construction and Architecture, and, in the words of her mother, Irina Pashkeeva: “Valeria is a good person, very friendly and sociable. My daughter has been independent since she was 16. She graduated from school and university. She’s worked very hard to get where she is”. Married to Dmitry Shkrabov, her friend since childhood, she has said that she will never have human children, since she belongs to a more spiritual world, and, so she says, has been communicating with other beings through the use of light ever since she was a young child.
And this is really where all of her desire for the limelight comes from. Her spiritual name is Amatue (an Atlantean reference to the Goddess of the Sun) and her powers, aside from communicating with other beings as we’ve mentioned already, range from reincarnation and the ability to travel through time and space to being able to teach others about her knowledge regarding out-of-body experiences – at least this is what she said during an interview with V magazine and in her Barbie Space video, posted on her Youtube channel. This esoteric knowledge is the result of being labelled early on as “having a gift” by a psychologist, combined with the extensive library of books on the subject that her mother bought for her. For her part, Valeria says that all the fame creates a responsibility for her to emanate even more light, positive energy and love to all of her followers, and also to those who don’t follow her. She admits to not being at all surprised that there are those who speak badly of her: “it’s the other side of fame”, she says.