To make it even weirder, some of the people she ridiculed in the past have become good friends.
Celeste Barber – a quadruple threat as a comedian, actor, wife and mother – recently had to contend with one of those slice-of-life moments every high-profile celebrity with a social media following north of two million must inevitably come to grips with.
But there is also no doubt that Celeste Barber, as a social media phenomenon and friend to the stars, is simultaneously living an extraordinary life, like the Alexis Carrington version of Walter Mitty, in which it takes an Amazonian effort to keep her feet on the ground. “I have ADHD, so the whole focusing thing was really, really hard for me. I found drama school to be quite difficult – I’d always just make snippy remarks.”Salvation came unexpectedly in the form of Genevieve Mooy, who was one of her teachers but also had roles in the films. To Barber, however, Mooy became the reason drama school – and a lot of other things in her life – made sense.“I have ADHD, so the whole focusing thing was really, really hard for me,” says Barber.
Many people see Barber as someone who sprang into being via her Instagram account, in which she mimicked celebrity social media posts. But long before social media was even a thing, Barber had a role in the medical dramaIt was not a big part, but it had her working alongside Wil Traval, Virginia Gay and Mark Priestley, who became close friends. “It was kind of fame by proxy, because I wasn’t a regular in the beginning,” Barber says.
Perhaps the thing that has come most to her is an ease within herself that is striking. There is, for example, a clear line between the performed self and the real self. Neither is wholly Celeste Barber, but looking in the mirror, the 42-year-old understands who she is. “That’s something I’ve been learning about myself,” Barber says. “Other people’s perception of me is very different to my perception of me.
“I really do not think we’ve won that battle,” she adds. “And the conversation doesn’t open up, it’s always quite targeted. I always get asked about my body. Ashley Graham gets asked about her body. Lizzo gets asked about her body.“But no one’s asking any of those Victoria’s Secret models what regime they go through. That’s never asked of models, because that’s what women are expected to look like. Until we’re talking to everyone about how they look, we should talk to no one about how they look.
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