Biography

Valeria Valeryevna Lukyanova is a Moldova-born Ukrainian model and entertainer of Russian origin, famous for her resemblance to a Barbie doll. She currently lives in Mexico. To enhance the Barbie effect Lukyanova uses makeup and contact lenses over her naturally green/gray/blue eyes. She has stated that she has had breast implants, but that the rest of her body is natural and slender due to daily gym workouts and a particular diet. Lukyanova was born 1985, in Tiraspol, in what was then part of Moldavian SSR in the Soviet Union. She is of Russian origin. Lukyanova lived in Odesa, Ukraine from age 16 until 2014, when she moved to Moscow. She had her debut starring role in a feature film in The Doll (2017), a horror movie directed and written by Susannah O’Brien. The film, which also includes Mindy Robinson and Ron Jeremy, revolves around Lukyanova's character, an escort made from doll parts created by a doctor to recruit others to kill, and the two men who requested her.[34][35] The movie presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.