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Brazilian model Celso Santebañes, who was nicknamed “The Human Ken Doll,” has died after a five-month struggle with leukemia.

Celso Santebañes, 20, died on Thursday, June 4, from bacterial pneumonia following a bout with leukemia.

Diagnosed with the rare form of blood cancer last year, Celso Santebañes underwent a battery of chemotherapy treatments starting in December of 2014. He died at the Federal University of Uberlândia Clinical Hospital, where he was undergoing his latest round of chemotherapy.

Celso Santebañes spent thousands of dollars on surgery to transform himself into a real-life version of iconic doll Barbie’s boyfriend, Ken, People magazine reports.Human Ken Doll Celso Santebañes dead at 21

Starting at the age of 15, Celso Santebañes entered beauty contests. As a teenager, people kept telling him that he looked like a Ken Doll. Obsessed with the perfection of physical beauty, the Brazilian model started to identify features of his face that didn’t look like Ken Doll.

His nose was too wide, his lip too natural and his philtrum – the crease of the upper lip – simply too natural.

By his late teens, Celso Santebañes had fixed his “imperfections” and joined a growing number of adult men aspiring to look like a Ken Doll. Not to be outdone by the original Mattel doll, Celso Santebañes released a line of “Celso” dolls modeled after himself. He daydreamed about making a film with Valeria Lukyanova, the Ukrainian “Human Barbie”.

In his five month battle with cancer, Celso Santebañes immediately had to confront his own physical deterioration, the undoing of what had become his personal identity and national image. It started with dark spots on his skin and bleeding gums, side effects of the blood cancer. Once in treatment his hair fell out. He’d later be confined to a wheelchair, a scrawny pale shadow.

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Justin Jedlica was first dubbed “The Human Ken Doll” in a 2012 20/20 segment on extreme plastic surgery.

In an April 2014 interview with the Daily Beast, Justin Jedlica, 32, talked about his extensive surgery history and the one thing he doesn’t have in common with Ken Doll.

The New Yorker has spent a whopping $170,000 on plastic surgery. Justin Jedlica underwent his first surgery at the age of 18, going on to have a total of 149 procedures.

Justin Jedlica has spent a whopping $170,000 on plastic surgery

Justin Jedlica has spent a whopping $170,000 on plastic surgery (photo Getty Images)

He told the magazine: “Three days after my 18th birthday I went in and did my first nose job, which is something I wanted from a really young age.”

“For me, that was something I needed to fix… I’ve had 149 cosmetic procedures – which is different than surgeries. I’ve probably had 19 actual full-on surgeries; even in those 19 surgeries I’ve had some combos where there have been several areas worked on.”

Justin Jedlica is a gay, married man. Human Ken had a civil union ceremony to his partner in July 2013.

They have been together for five years.

Justin Jedlica says his husband is in support of his body alteration, explaining: “He tells me that my plastic surgery turns him on… he doesn’t have any qualms with it. It was something we talked about even before we got married, because I was like, <<We’re not going to get married if you’re going to give me shit about my surgeries!>>. He was like, <<Oh, I know that’s part of you, it’s totally fine>>. He’s not opposed to having work done either. It really was a moot point; it wasn’t an issue at all. I think he thinks it’s kind of cool.”

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