Ukrainian model and internet superstar, Valeria Lukyanova, has coined herself the “real-life Barbie doll” and is now creating a stir saying she hopes to eventually live her life without eating or drinking.
She recently told The International Business Times, “In recent weeks I have not been hungry at all.”
“I’m hoping it’s my final stage before I can subsist on air and light alone,” she added.
This idea is belief of a New Age practice called Breatharianism. Its followers will not eat or drink and believe that they exist only on ”cosmic micro-food.”
Lukyanova is a firm believer in reincarnation and claims she has been contacted and lives among extraterrestrial beings.
However, Jezebel.com doesn’t believe that the model is using her dollish features to promote her “spiritual ideas” as she claims.
The site writes that she is starving herself to continually achieve to look even more like a doll.