Interview in GQ Lyrics
GQ’s Michael Idov: The beauty that you embody is very Western. American, even
Valeria Lukyanova: I wouldn't say so. Everyone wants a slim figure. Everyone gets breasts done. Everyone fixes up their face if it's not ideal, you know? Everyone strives for the golden mean. It's global now.
Idov: But that's a relatively new thing. The ideal of beauty used to be different.
Lukyanova: That's because of the race-mixing.
For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad's nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it's all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there's degeneration, and it didn't used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this. I love the Nordic image myself. I have white skin; I am a Nordic type—perhaps a little Eastern Baltic, but closer to Nordic.
The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.
Olga Oleynik: It's so boring, I'd rather die.
Lukyanova: I'd rather die from torture, because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle.
Michael Idov: That sounds feminist.
Lukyanova: I'm against feminism. But what would you keep the children for? So they can get you a glass of water when you're on your deathbed?
Valeria Lukyanova: I wouldn't say so. Everyone wants a slim figure. Everyone gets breasts done. Everyone fixes up their face if it's not ideal, you know? Everyone strives for the golden mean. It's global now.
Idov: But that's a relatively new thing. The ideal of beauty used to be different.
Lukyanova: That's because of the race-mixing.
For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad's nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it's all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there's degeneration, and it didn't used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this. I love the Nordic image myself. I have white skin; I am a Nordic type—perhaps a little Eastern Baltic, but closer to Nordic.
The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.
Olga Oleynik: It's so boring, I'd rather die.
Lukyanova: I'd rather die from torture, because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle.
Michael Idov: That sounds feminist.
Lukyanova: I'm against feminism. But what would you keep the children for? So they can get you a glass of water when you're on your deathbed?
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Valeria Lukyanova, Ukraine’s “Real Life Barbie,” was interviewed in GQ for the magazine’s April 2014 issue.
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