‘Human Barbie’ accused of racist comments

A magazine interview with Ukrainian-Moldovan model Valeria Lukyanova (aka “the human Barbie”) offers some insight into her bizarre and fascinating world.

The piece, in this month’s edition of GQ, reveals a unique worldview, with commentators criticising as racist some of the sentiments expressed by the model.

In the interview, conducted in her home city of Odessa by Michael Idov, Lukyanova attributes current societal ideals of beauty to “race mixing”.