The Ukrainian model whose doll-like features and unlikely proportions have earned her the nickname of Human Barbie admitted that at least some of her recent photos have been Photoshopped to "correct defects."
In an interview with Cosmo, Valeria Lukyanova said that a spread published to her Facebook page last week was altered to iron out a few technical imperfections.
The self-styled human doll posed in super-short jean shorts, high heels and a midriff-baring blue top.
Posted by Valeria Lukyanova on Thursday, May 14, 2015
"The pictures are Photoshopped to achieve smoothness and color correction. The pictures were taken in the botanical garden on the phone. They were not high quality. I had to edit them in order to correct the defects of the phone picture," Lukyanova told Cosmo.
Although she has denied using Photoshop to alter her appearance in the past, it seems that Human Barbie no longer has qualms with it. It's all part of creating her "ideal" physical appearance.
"Everyone wants a slim figure. Everyone gets breasts done. Everyone fixes up their face if it's not ideal, you know? Everyone strives for the golden mean. It's global now," Lukyanova told GQ last year.
GQ editor Michael Ivov suggested that the "impossibly blonde" and "impossibly shaped" social media sensation's look is as much a product of "Loretta Lux-style postproduction" as it is clever makeup.
Justin Jedlica, the so-called Human Ken, compared Lukyanova to a drag queen in 2012.
"I do find her beautiful," Jedlica said in an email to HuffPost. "[But] it appears to me that much of her look is added makeup, fake hair and 'slimming' corsets. ... Drag queens have put on the same illusions with makeup and costumes for years."
Posted by Valeria Lukyanova on Saturday, May 16, 2015
Lukyanova told Cosmo that anyone who hates on her is just jealous.
"Those who are unsatisfied with what I do and critique me and offend me clearly don't have the same figure as I do. Otherwise they would not be so negative," she told Cosmo. "They are openly jealous."
On Facebook, she said that she'd taken on a new workout regimen after being attacked outside her home last year, according to Entertainment Tonight. She said she wanted to make herself stronger to ward off future potential attackers. She said the photos, which show off her toned abdominal muscles, were intended to cast her as an "Amazonian warrior woman."
Posted by Valeria Lukyanova on Thursday, May 14, 2015
While the self-branded Human Barbie has been criticized for her pursuit of what others consider to be an unnatural body shape, it's not the only thing she's drawn fire for.
Lukyanova, who believes in reincarnation and says she's been contacted by trans-dimensional beings, was accused of starving herself in 2014 after claiming that she has been able to "subsist on air and light alone."
She also faced backlash after telling GQ that she was "against feminism" and was revolted by children and what she called "race-mixing."
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