Heroes and The Cult of the Celebrity

When you first look at this picture, you think that you are looking to the Barbie doll and her boyfriend Ken, you thought that you are in front of two non-living dolls, but no, you will be wrong, you are looking at two humans like you and me. They are the living human dolls Barbie and Ken. We heard about before about Valeria the 21 Ukranian girl who transformed herself to human living Barbie doll, but recently, I found another one who was crazy about Barbie doll and her boyfriend Ken, also transformed himself to be the live version of the Ken doll, he is Justin Jedlica, a 32 years old man. Justin have payed about $100,000 on plastic surgeries to look like the Ken doll. ((RSVP magazine. n.d).

                                       

Ken, or Justin, have been underwent surgeries in his whole face and body to look like the Ken doll, and he said that is the reason that he wanted to be like the Ken doll is he observed that all children are playing and even grown up people, adore the Barbie and Ken dolls, and playing with them all the time, and then he thought that is the only way to be handsome and attractive, is through being like them, and since he is a man, so he cannot be a Human Barbie, so he transformed himself to the male version which is the Ken doll. (RSVP magazine. n.d).

Another one who is maniac about having the dolls style is Anastasia Shpagina a 19 years old girl from Odesa. But this time, she didn’t transform herself to a doll with plastic surgeries, but with  makeup. Shpagina wakes up every day at 5 a.m to get dressed and she explained that she spend every day about two hours in putting makeup in her face, to have the doll look, and she said that she spend 30 minute in each eye to have these wide eyes like a doll. (Kathy Cho. 2012).

What is the secret behind all this mania about the dolls look, why all the people suddenly want to look like dolls, because it is not only about these three above, there are hundreds of them whom transformed themselves to dolls, through plastic surgeries or through makeup. In the past, we could hear that some people which to be like superman or batman because they are heroes, so are dolls became now heroes that all the people want to look like them or this considered as a cult of celebrities.

Of course dolls are not heroes, but those people may suffering from the disease of the cult of celebrity, they think that is dolls are fabulous , and the only way to look attractive and fabulous like them, is transforming themselves to human dolls, and maybe they want to be famous and surrounded by people and media and all the world talk about them, like what is exactly is happening now. 

Those people are understand the word of beauty just from one side, which is the external appearance and how they face and body should look like, they just want to have the perfect look whatever this coast to them. Valeria, the live version of Barbie doll, want to make other surgeries to make her body work with the solar power, and doesn’t eat at all, can you imagine that someone could think about such a thing. I think that we should teach our children the real meaning of beauty, to teach them that it is not the main thing that to beautiful from outside, you should also be beautiful from inside.

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years." - Audrey Hepburn. (Sarkis. S. 2012).

References

Cho. K. (2012). . Real-Life Doll Anastasia Stuns World With Extreme Makeup. Retrieved on October 17, 2012. Retrieved from http://iamcatwalk.com/fashion-features/real-life-doll-

RSVP magazine. (n.d). Real-Life Barbie Meets Her Ken, But They Don’t Hit It Off. Retrieved on Jun 14, 2013. Retrieved from http://rsvpmagazine.ie/real-life-barbie-meets-her-ken-but-

Sarkis. S. (2012). 50 Quotes on Beauty. Retrieved on April 30, 2012. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201204/50-quotes