#1 Venus Isabelle Palermo AKA VenusAngelic Although she's British, teenage Venus lived in Japan for two years, which inspired her animae character look and fashion. Like Dakota Rose, she's become popular due to her YouTube make-up tutorials and blog. Her voice and accent is unique and she's as fascinating in her videos as she is in pictures. She claims her accent is made up of five languages..Wow! Or perhaps, is it constructed too? #2 Wang Jiayun: China Wang Jiayun may look like a blow-up doll, but she's a famous high school student amongst Korean internet followers. Since going viral in 2011, her name is in the top searches on Korean portal websites. Although Wang wears colored contacts and has that vacant look in her eyes that many human doll look-alikes have, she is naturally cute. What's unexplainable is a fascination of looking artificial and others being attracted to it. #3 Anastasiya Shpagina: Ukraine The news has featured stories about girls in Odessa that are altering their bodies to look like human dolls. The trend is catching on around the world and some call it the "Barbie Flu". Anastasiya though favors transforming herself into an anime character and "never leaves the house without makeup." She's a makeup and hair artist so it's probably not too much of a stretch for her to create this unreal look! #4 Justin Jedica: U.S.A Justin's been tagged the Ken look-alike, and he now rivals the original Barbie look-alike, Ukarian Valeria Lukyanova. After meeting his counter part at a photo shot in NYC, he blasted her for being "a total fake". What?! Who's fake here? Evidently he decided to show-her-up by dressing in drag as a Barbie doll himself. Okay, now we're really confused. #5 Anzhelika Kenova: Russia Anzhelika is a newer "human doll" on the Barbie look-alike scene. The mid-twenty year old admits to having had plastic surgery with her waist reduced to 20-inches, and that's likely alongside an increased bust-line. It seems, a part of the incentive for these dramatic physical alterations is a worldwide recognition that it leads to financial gain and celebrity-ism. When put into this context the bizarreness of the trend begins to make sense. Or does it? #6 Vanilla Chamu: Japan It's quite popular in East Asia for people to undergo cosmetic surgery to enlarge their eyes. But wow, Vanilla Chamu's new look is extremely different compared to her "before" picture! Do her family members even recognize her today? It's said she's spent a whopping $100K and underwent 30 procedures for her "doll" transformation. Additionally, she claims she's not finished and won't be "content until she's a perfect 'French doll'". #7 American Model Aaron Bruckner Germany's GQ magazine had Aaron modeling as a Ken doll, and he does have the "look" nailed! Notice how he strikes a pose with his hand gestures, it's perfect but kinda eerie, right? Apparently the illusion is the work of stylists, photography and photoshop. Check-out his modeling catalog, you'll be surprised as he's simply hot and not creepy at all! #8 Alina Kovaleskaya: Ukraine Alina is another young gal from Odessa that has gained a following for her choice to look like a real-life Barbie! What is this fetish with Mattel's Barbie? Perhaps with parents encouraging daughters to play with the dolls, it's not too surprising they would want to bring "Barbie" aesthetics into their adult lives. Barbie's "look" has been blamed for setting unrealistic standards of beauty, could this odd phenomenon be taking it too far? #9 Dakota Ostrenga Aka Dakota Rose & KotaKoti Dakota is known as an anime character that she invented in her early teenage years. Living in San Francisco, she's garnered a huge following on Tumblr and her YouTube makeup videos. Common with many professional human doll look-alikes, there's a controversy of utilizing computer technology to enhance themselves further for financial profit, and for Dakota the online bullying was extreme. She's now since nabbed a modeling contract in Japan. Could she be leaving the "human doll" phenomenon behind? #10 Valeria Lukyanova: Ukraine She's one of the first to start the "Barbie Flu" contagion and has reportedly spent a half a million dollars on her physical transformation, which includes a tiny 19-inch waistline. Justin Jedica, the Ken look-alike claims her use of Photoshop renders her a "fake". But if it's a question about "self-construction" and "How real is the Internet?” then Justin himself, is not innocent. Perhaps Valeria's Internet personality and real life collides as she’s now dubbed the "Space Barbie", and coaches spiritual out-of-body travel and other "unreal" otherworldly rituals. Source
