Real-Life Barbie? Model Created Look to Spread Beliefs

[Buster's Uncle]

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[Buster's Uncle]

I don't hate the muscles.

[Buster's Uncle]

She shoops the muscle shots way more...

-Also?  Respect for reasonably competent photo shooping.  Doing anything to a photo and not having it be super-obvious you did?  That's hard.

[hEtErOdOx]

This girl makes me so sad.

[Buster's Uncle]

This is a common sort of reaction to Valeria.  Pray elucidate.

[Buster's Uncle]

Jayne Mansfield in The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, the first thing I noticed her in as a kid.



What she was doing and what I think Valeria intends aren't that alike - Mansfield just wanted to be a big star, and got stuck into a Marilyn Monroe-parody career path, but wanted to be appealing and liked, while Lukanova seems to be trying to shock her way to fame.  Mansfield was notorious for having deliberately-engineered wardrobe malfunctions for the publicity.

But there are definite commonalities beyond the obvious not-looking-real thing.  Notwithstanding that Mansfield's clown makeup and extreme physicality were far more to the mainstream tastes of her time, they both overall give off a stank of trying-too-hard desperation for fame.  It certainly didn't end well for Mansfield, and Lukynova is not likely to still be famous in 10 years - women with that kind of career are finished as soon as they age much.

In my native culture, we have a term "showing your butt in public" (behaving inappropriately and in an undignified way)
- leaving aside the considerable appropriateness in these cases of applying it literally, looking like you're trying too hard to be famous is a form of butt-showing.  It's tough to put a finger on the line between a woman pretty for a living using what's she's got to get ahead and looking cheap and desperate, but both tend to cross it.



That waist mostly ain't girdle, and both DO play with extremes of physicality and inherently interrogate our perceptions of standards of beauty...

[Rusty Edge]

Nice commentary/comparison, Buncle.
In Lukynova's case, I get a Dorothy Stratton/ Linda Lovelace vibe sometimes - as in a controlling boyfriend/spouse pursing his vision of a sex object and fortune at the same time.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah, I dunno.

There's plenty of women in the world who are pretty for a living - most lady newsreaders, for example.  Many, if not most, women do what they can with what they got to get along.  How hard, exactly, is trying TOO hard?

[Rusty Edge]

I've been thinking that the ladies asking the questions lately are on the beautiful side. Ashley Parker and Alexi McCammond come to mind. Those are just the ones I can name. They seem to limit themselves to hair, makeup, and a smile. I guess that's appropriate for talking heads.

I consider Val a model, so her body counts, too. Not just her face. I don't think that she's "showing more butt" than the others in her profession.

I guess I think that I draw the "trying TOO hard" line at body modification, drugs, and inducing vomiting/diarrhea whether you're an actor, athlete, or model. I'm not talking about training with weights. I'm talking about changing your weight to the point of harming your health. Maybe it's time to let somebody else ride the horse or wear the dress or take the part. I had a cousin who wanted to play Division I college football. He walked on the team as a student.  The trouble was that all of the muscle he had to add to do that gave him blood pressure problems. Bad idea.

[Buster's Uncle]

-She claimed to try to live off just sunlight.


However, I'd point out that for all she's slightly built - she's just not starved; she has buttocks.  Fairly shapely ones.

[Buster's Uncle]

She definitely like to look exotic against exotic backgrounds...

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