Kenova spent her childhood posing in front of the mirror and putting on performances for her parents’ friends. She loved Barbie’s slender beauty, golden curls, cute face and beautiful clothes, and urged me to be exactly the same.” “My mother was also very beautiful in her youth,” Kenova explains.
Her controlling parents began morphing their daughter into a living doll when she was 6, when her mother, Natalia, began buying Kenova collectible Barbie dolls and dressing up her daughter like one. “As a result, I am not fit for real life - I’m like a living doll.”
“Growing up, my parents raised me like a princess and never let me go out, date boys or have the usual adult experiences,” says Kenova, according to. Facebookīut unlike Lukyanova, and other one-time “human Barbie” Alina Kovalevskaya, who both sought the unnatural proportions themselves, Kenova says it was her parents who actually masterminded her looks. Kenova’s parents began dressing her up as a Barbie doll when she was 6 years old. She first made headlines in 2014, but a recent viral video by News Dog Media has brought her back to the international spotlight. Weeks after “human Barbie” Valeria Lukyanova admitted to using Photoshop to emphasize her doll-like proportions, another European is hoping to claim the title.Īngelica Kenova, a 26-year-old model from Moscow, boasts a 20-inch waist, wears a size 32E bra and weighs just 89 pounds - making her the latest lady to bear a striking resemblance to the famous plastic stunner.