REAL LIFE BARBIE CLAIMS TO BE AN ALIEN

When pictures of Ukrainian living doll Valeria lukyanova emerged on websites last spring, people questioned if they are genuine or made out of clever photo editing.

Some felt them bizarre and frowned over her obsession with turning herself into the splitting image of the iconic blonde Barbie doll. Yet, she has more than 668,000 “Likes” on her Facebook page and portrays herself as “the most famous Russian woman on the Russian-speaking internet,”

Surely with her incredibly thin waist, plastic-like skin and eyes and an unrealistic body proportions did she rise to a global stardom. But, what is less known is that she doesn't belong to this planet.

In a report with The Sun, her friend and lookalike Olga "Dominica" Oleynik said,"Me and Lera (short for Valeria), we come from the constellation of Pleiades. There, such looks are normal.”

She lives on a liquid-only diet and is planning to drink only water. In a series of video blogs for her fans, she furthered to say that her “ultimate goal is to be powered only by solar energy”. She believes she will rely on “prana”, which in Hindu tradition means life

solar energy”. She believes she will rely on “prana,” which in Hindu tradition means life force, to nourish her

She wasn't always like what we see her now. The daughter of a former DJ and builder dad and a mum who works in the military sector, Valeria spent rather ordinary teenage years, less interested in turning herself into human Barbie and more interested in drinking and smoking.

She studied architecture at college and holds a masters degree in architecture and urban planning. However, she confessed she always had a fixation with dolls, and as she grew older that fixation, she gradually started to dress up as a living doll.

As for the “unrealistic” comments of the public, Valeria said she took them as compliments. Because, her look is hard earned from daily gym visits, starving herself and a boob job. She also added that she had the operation only once to increase her breasts by two sizes, but everything else is natural.

This former Miss Ukraine contestant claimed to have mastered the art of time travel through space. She told fans: “I also teach people to leave their physical body and travel in the endless expanses of the universe.”

Worryingly, the petite model is fearful of putting on weight despite being slight. She said: “I am afraid that I am gaining weight.

“Now I’m 45kg, although before I was 42kg. With time I will learn to adjust the weight in my mind.”

When asked how many plastic surgery ops she has had, she replied: “Only one — to increase my breasts by two sizes.

But Lera does not bat a cartoon-like eyelid at the criticism. She said: “It’s hard work but they dismiss it as something done by surgeons or computer artists.

Her interests include travelling and “esoterics and meditation.”

And in true beauty pageant speak, the former Miss Ukraine contestant also says her mission is “improving the world.”

She believes beauty really is only skin deep, and that is why she is so interested in her cosmic side.

In a series of video blogs for her fans, she said her “ultimate goal is to be powered only by solar energy”. And she claims to have mastered the art of time travel through space.

She told fans: “I also teach people to leave their physical body and travel in the endless expanses of the universe.”

But there have been dark moments in Lera’s life as well.

At 14, she tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of prescription pills. Her desperation was apparently down to a boy.

Before, Valeria Lukyanova used to like drinking and smoking

Now she is happily married to Dmitry Shkrabov although it is not clear whether her view of an “open relationship” is simply about honesty or monogamy.

“Dmitry is always on my side,” she said. “He loves and supports me. He likes me with make-up and without. He became a strict vegetarian even earlier than I did.

“He is fond of mountains — he conquered Mount Elbrus. We were on Everest, went to Nepal and the Himalayan mountain range. In general we support an open relationship.”

Lera does not want kids, because that is not what they do in her universe. “I don’t feel the desire and the capacity to be a mother,” she said. “I’m from another universe.

“There, everyone is asexual — in our dimension there’s no such thing as children.”