We all know the quote “beauty is pain,” but what would you go through to be “beautiful”?  

The image of Barbie and Ken have been the depiction of perfection and looked to as role models for decades now. With technology today, plastic surgery has become a hot topic within pop culture. From Nicki Minaj to Janice Dickinson, altering the way your body looks has become glorified by the media. But celebrities are people too! 

So shouldn't we be able to do the same? 

Well, that’s exactly the thought that Justin Jedlica and Valeria Lukyanova had. The two believed that their ideas of perfection were reachable and went for it. Their goal? To be human replicas of Barbie and Ken. Their path to getting there? Investing quite a lot of money for plastic surgery. But get this. It worked! And now walking among us, living daily lives like we do, Barbie and Ken aren’t just dolls anymore! 

And not only do these two look like Barbie and Ken, but also they act like them! Remember when it was technically ‘illegal’ to put the dolls together as a couple? You might as well say that about the human ones too. Many reports and interviews show the two commenting on how they don’t get along. While with dailymail.co.uk, Jedlica stated, "It appears to me that much of her look is added makeup, fake hair and 'slimming' corsets. Drag queens have put on the same illusions with makeup and costumes for years." Lukyanova’s rebuttal was "Justin said bad things about me but he had more than 90 operations, while I had only one. He would do better not to comment on who is plastic and who is not. I think he is handsome man - but he overdid his lips." 

Shots fired much? So, I get it, people call sorority girls ‘barbie dolls’ or ‘plastic’, but I’m pretty sure these two kick us out of the running for that contest. With all the publicity that Jedlica and Lukyanova have been getting this past year the popularity of looking more doll-like than human has expanded and the population of human dolls is increasing. I bet the movie Life Size didn’t see that one coming.