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| Lukyanova modeling her doll resemblance body |
I grew up as an only child, so when I had play time, those activities were limited to things I could do by myself or with my stay at home mother. One of my favorite activities way playing with Barbie. Still to this day I own over 150 barbies. For me, I stopped playing with Barbies around the age of 12, but some other women in this world are trying to make themselves become literal barbies.
Valeria Lukyanova, an Ukranian model is questioned to have under gone extensive plastic surgery that cost her $800,000 in order to make herself look like this Mattel look alike doll. According to BBC News Magazine, it would be near to impossible to display Barbies features exactly in human form, but that doesn't mean people in the world aren't trying. Aside from Lukyanova, a recent American socialite, Hedi Montag, star of "The Hills" also changed her body to be considered "perfect".
Montag spent over 1 million dollars on her plastic surgery, in which no she is broke. Her addictiveness made her transform from the sweet girl next door to a "Barbie". She wanted to look perfect for her media life, which soon ended after the show was cancelled following the plastic surgery. Montag went through 10 plastic surgeries in one sitting and dealt with months of pain to follow.
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| Left: Montag before Right: After plastic surgeries |
Now, Montag admits to regretting doing everything to her body. She went through tremendos pain both emotionally and physically. She and her husband also do not have any money left to afford a house! They have to live with Spencer's parents at one of their homes.
Media and the idea to look "perfect" has really been effecting women nationally. Women are forgetting that inner beauty is what matters, not what you look like from the eyes of others. Being "perfect" is costly emotionally and physically, and I don't believe that the media is helping with the self-esteem of teenage and college girls. There are too many women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in order to obtain the "perfect body".
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| Montag now has a G-cup breast size |
Barbie isn't real, and is a fictional character. Same with T.V. show characters and movie characters. Girls are beginning to believe that looking like this is the "norm" when it is physically impossible without plastic surgery. The world needs to do a better job of making it known that this is unhealthy and the way you look is absolutely beautiful and that is how you were meant to look. Throughout my lifetime, I want to mentor teenage girls to be more comfortable within their body both emotionally and physically.
This is how the media, advertising, and products are destroying young girls self-esteems, and I want to start working towards changing this.
Read more about Lukyanova below:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/22/valeria-lukyanova_n_1444169.html#slide=more222075
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7920962.stm
Photos of Lukyanova below:
http://vk.com/photos4926666
Read more about Montag below:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/19/heidi-montag-regrets-g-sized-breast-implants-wishes-would-have-saved-her-money/
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/slideshow/heidi-montags-plastic-surgery-transformation-12175653
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