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Venus Palermo, 15
She enjoys dressing up to look like a doll.
Girl,15, dresses and looks like a doll
Big eyes and porcelain skin, Venus and other teens have embraced the doll look.
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Venus Palermo, 15
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">She enjoys dressing up to look like a doll.</span></p>
Known as Venus Angelic online
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">Her make-up video tutorials has garnered 10 million views.</span></p>
<p><span id="photoForm:articleText">With her porcelain pale skin, enormous blue eyes, rosebud lips and flaxen hair, she looks like a real doll.</span></p>
Like a doll
<p><span id="photoForm:articleText">The only child of a single mother has been dressing this way since she was 11.</span></p>
Online tutorials
<p><span id="editPageForm:contentsText">She shares makeup and hairstyling tips to achieve her look.</span></p>
Venus' mum, Margaret
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">She defends her daughter's unusual hobby.</span></p>
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">Venus' mum helping to lighten her hair.</span></p>
American teen Dakota Rose
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">She has her own following on the Internet.</span></p>
Dakota Rose
<p>L<span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">ike Venus, she has her own YouTube channel where she dispenses fashion & make-up advice.</span></p>
Dakota Rose
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">Not much is known about her, except that she lives on the West Coast & has an older sister. </span></p>
Dakota Rose
Wang Jiayun
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">In Asia, the Chinese high school student became famous overnight for looking like 'an inflatable doll'.</span></p>
Wang Jiayun
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">Her 30 pictures were wildly circulated on forums & sites across China, Taiwan & Hong Kong. </span></p>
Like an anime character
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">She sports large round eyes, a sharp oval face and a pointed chin.</span></p>
Might be fake
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">However, netizens believe she photoshops her pictures.</span></p>
Wang Jiayun
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">She "just wants a normal life & wants to repay her parents by getting into college".</span></p>
Wang Jiayun
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">She said she never wanted to be popular public figure.</span></p>
Wang Jiayun
<p><span id="photoForm:imageDescpText" class="fontGray">Her school teacher reportedly had spoken to her after seeing her pictures. </span></p>
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
Wang shut down her personal blog
<p><span id="editPageForm:contentsText">There was growing controversy on whether she had digitally altered her images.</span></p>
Wang Jiayun
<p>Reports say she is only 17.</p>
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
Wang Jiayun
<p>She emerged as an online celebrity overnight in Korea.</p>
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