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A Ukrainian model who has cast herself as a real-life Barbie doll says she eventually hopes to live without eating or drinking.
Valeria Lukyanova, whose doll-like features and ultra-thin waist have stirred controversy in the past, has apparently made it her goal to survive “on air and light alone.”
“In recent weeks I have not been hungry at all,” Lukyanova said, according to the International Business Times. “I’m hoping it’s the final stage before I can subsist on air and light alone.”
The website linked that dietary desire to a New Age practice known as Breatharianism, in which followers neither neither eat nor drink, believing they can exist solely on “cosmic micro-food.”
Lukyanova, who believes in reincarnation and claims to have been in contact with transdimensional beings, has said she uses her appearance to promote her “spiritual ideas.”