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'Real-life Barbie' spends £120,000 on plastic surgery, pink home and 1,500 dolls

A 'real-life Barbie' has revealed living as a human doll is lonely and she has 'no friends'.

Tatiana ‘Tanya’ Tuzova, 32, has spent £120,000 on her Barbie hobby - which includes a collection of 1,520 dolls. 

Now Russian Tatiana is aiming to claim the world record for the biggest Barbie collection.

She also plans to change her family name to Barbie and dresses only in pink.

Denying she is obsessional as she shows off her Barbie looks and huge doll collection, Tatiana admitted that she leads a lonely life.

She said: “I don't have friends. I have no time to be friends.

Tatiana Tuzova with her Barbie dolls collection and a pet dog Leonardo (Komsomolskaya Pravda; EAST2WEST)

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“I like being alone, no-one interferes my thoughts, I like my world.

“I have a husband, he is my best friend.”

The Russian Barbie’s entire life revolves around her chosen lifestyle.

She said: “I work, record songs, do gigs, receive awards, produce clothes for children and grown-up girls, and rent out a photo studio” - but it is all Barbie related.

“All of my everyday clothes are pink,” she said.

Tatiana 'Barbie' Tuzova in her pink office (Tatiana Tuzova; EAST2WEST NEWS)

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“I don't get tired of pink, it has lots of shades.”

She admits she had a boob job to enlarge her breasts after giving birth to her son, Zhenya, now 11.

Tatiana added: “I enlarged my breasts.

“It was awful after pregnancy and I had to have it fixed.”

Her fifth and current husband is a medic, but Tatiana declined to name him.

Tatiana Tuzova posing with her pink car (Tatiana Tuzova; EAST2WEST NEWS)

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She added: "He is a doctor and can fix your back.

"We met at his work and then I conquered him with my karaoke voice.

"Now he makes me Barbie-style presents, recently it was a pink Mini Cabrio.”

Tatiana became a full-time Barbie after she wanted to become a nursery school teacher, but could not live on the monthly salary of £71 plus £22 for also working as a cleaner.

Tatiana, pictured in her pink office, is planning on adding to her huge collection (Tatiana Tuzova; EAST2WEST NEWS)

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She said: "It was too sad to imagine my beautiful self cleaning floors.

"Barbie is [not my job it is] a lifestyle.

"When I am insulted on the internet, I tell people, 'I don't drink or smoke or swear. I instil a healthy lifestyle to children’.”

But people are not interested in her inner world, she complained, adding: "They are not interested how many kind and good things I've done.

“They have to know my age, how many times I was married, what surgeries I had, and the colour of my underwear.”

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But she believes she is unique.

“The most important thing is to have your individuality,” she said.

“Everyone is the same now. But it is hard to copy me.

“I've been working on my style for many years and invested a lot of money into it.”

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