This year Barbie doll celebrated her 55th birthday. At the beginning of her “career” she was yet a revolution amongst dolls, because Barbie was the first without chubby cheeks and a childlike body. Indeed it went one step further and Barbie developed from a toy played by millions of children to a tall, slim, blue-eyed, blonde, and busty character. Soon Barbie was not only a toy, but also an ideal of beauty for many young women.
Also for the 23 year-old Valeria Lukyanova from Ukraine, whose appearance attracted quite much attention recently, Barbie seems to be an ideal of beauty. She corresponds to her idol nearly entirely. According to her own statement she did it just with the help of strict raw food nutrition and very hard physical work. It is astonishing that artificial beauty surgeries – except of a breast augmentation – shouldn’t have contributed to her transformation to a living Barbie doll. Valeria emphasizes again and again that she has not “touched up”.
Taking a look on a picture of her quickly raises the question: Is it really possible to reach such Barbie-like proportions in a natural way? In her tender age of 23 she is quite young for having undergone such a number of surgeries. Nevertheless, there are persistent opinions on the internet, that say that Valeria didn’t just help at her breasts, but also has had a rip removal, a nose job, a liposuction, and a modification of her eyes.
Valeria Lukyanova insists that her breast augmentation was the one and only exception and that her small waist – compared to her huge décolleté – is a product of nutrition and sports. Well, this may be true! But it could be suspected that Valeria has formed her small waist with the aid of liposculpture or liposuction.
Instead of discarding the obtained fat and putting silicone implants into the breasts, the fat could be used for breast augmentation with stem cells and autologous fat. Valeria could have gotten a bigger breast without scalpel and silicone, because fat is harvested from the body’s fat pads using microcannulas and injected into the breast after stem cell enrichment.
This method is suitable both for women who like to have more volume and for those who like to get back volume they have lost (for example due to breastfeeding). In stem cell breast augmentation general anesthesia is superfluous. Thus the patient is able to return to everyday life rapidly. In the first step fat is obtained by liposuction under local anesthesia, from with stem cells are extracted. Subsequently, the stem cell-enriched fat is injected into the breast.
The treatment just takes a few hours and in contrast to conventional breast augmentations with silicone it normally does not leave scars. Valeria, who emulated her ideal of beauty Barbie already in her childhood by dying her hair blonde, could – if she is planning further procedures without making them public – choose a more gentle method, like the one which is using the body’s own stem cells, whose results are sustainable and natural-looking. The precondition is that there are enough fat pads out of which natural, living filling material for the breasts can be obtained.
In an Interview with frauenzimmer.at the young “Barbie” says: “If you are not beautiful, nobody will listen to you. It’s very important for people that you take care of you and your body, that you are beautiful, and that you have accomplished something.”
Indeed Valeria reached her goal to attract attention for her appearance. However, we will see if anybody is listening to her. This will certainly depend on what she has to tell the world about.
DDr. Heinrich, MD