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There have been some cases of women undergoing a "bimbofication" as part of an artistic/ideological statement, as is the case of "real-life Barbie doll" Valeria Lukyanova. I've also read somewhere a statement made by Alexandra "Kissie" Nilsson where she explained the ideas behind her twelve-parts plastic surgery plan to become a bimbo, which sounded a lot like an attempt to criticize the media and the means by which many women achieve popularity and notoriety through these means today (she also describes herself as someone who likes to provoke people). Perhaps I'm misreading her, but I vaguely remember something like this. There was also an artist who created a persona for herself called Fauxy, and who started a kickstarter campaign in order to fund several plastic surgeries that would be part of an art installation based on this transformation. The kickstarter failed, however, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was never particularly serious about it either.

There's an interesting documentary, also, that may perhaps be more apt to describe as the subversion of the "trophy wife" archetype more so than the "bimbo" one, but which may nevertheless be of some interest and relevance to this discussion, which is called The Queen of Versailles and follows the real-life story of Jackie Siegel, the wife of Westgate Resorts owner David Siegel, through the company and family's financial struggle following the crisis, where she is shown to be the person in charge of keeping everything together. It's a pretty interesting documentary and well worth a look.