Julia Stakhiva, a 23-year-old London student with a sizable Instagram following, told the Daily Mail her secret for living her best life: Her parents pay for hundreds of thousands of dollars of cosmetic surgery so she can focus on looking good. Also, she doesn't really care what you think about her.
Actually it's not that she doesn't care, it's that she thrives on the hate she receives on Instagram. "I love all my haters. I would rather die than have people not talk about me," she said. "People criticizing me shows that I'm an extraordinary person."
In her circles, appearance matters, Stakhiva explained, so "it's important for me to look beautiful, be skinny and have nice hair." She believes "everyone should start cosmetic surgery at a young age" instead of spending money on things like food: "Some people are not brave enough to have surgery. They think it's better to sit at home, eat pizza and judge me. But I just think well, you eat pizza and I look pretty." So far, she's had lip injections, facial fillers, cheek reduction surgery, and teeth whitenings done and is looking into a breast augmentation for next year.
Her parents will continue to support her surgery habit and support her professional goals, though it's unclear what exactly they entail: "It's my life's goal to become successful. I'm not suitable for an office job because of how well I dress and how educated I am. My friends and family see me as leader so I don't think I could be employed by anyone after university."
As graduation approaches, the plan is to buy a great outfit from Paris for the ceremony (her budget is the equivalent of $22,000) and from there she'll star in The Majors, a "factual TV serial [sic] based on the everyday life of privileged young guys all around the world."
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