Maurício Galdi, a 27-year-old from Brazil, is being declared the new Human Ken Doll.

The Sao Paulo native has reportedly had eight surgeries that have contributed to his dream of looking like the popular kids toy.

According to La Opinion, the son of middle-class parents, Galdi has always wanted to look like a doll. He explains how he was always jealous of girls because they could play with Ken and Barbie dolls without being judged.

"I saw them playing with dolls and I wanted to do the same, but I never did for fear of prejudice," he said.

However, Galdi did believe the dolls to be beautiful and claims he has always felt ugly.

His transformation began when he was just 17 and was told he was not beautiful enough to become an actor after enrolling in acting classes.

Some of his surgery procedures include, reports Cosmopolitan, a nose job and filler injections of polymethylmethacrylate. Although he has always wanted to look like the doll, Galdi claims he never gave himself the Brazilian Ken Doll title.

'I never sought to be the Brazilian human Ken,' he said. 'It was something that came to me, television sought to give me the title.'

News of Galdi comes after the death of 21-year-old Celso Santebañes, who first earned fame for his doll-like features. He reportedly spent more than $47,000 in various surgeries to achieve the look.

The two were in involved in a public dispute online after Santebañes accused Galdi of trying to snatch his title and criticized his surgery for looking unnatural.

Over the last year the popularity of people using plastic surgery to achieve bizarre doll-like appearances has risen. Valeria Lukyanova has continued to make headlines for her uncanny resemblance to Barbie, the popular Mattel doll. Justin Jedlica, from New York, has claimed to having 190 procedures to look like a Ken doll.