The emergence of the phenomenon
In early 2015, struck by the heightened aesthetics of bodies on Instagram, Australian actress Celeste Barber launches a comic photo challenge with her sister: she decides to parody the poses of stars or influencers in “real life” mode. His pastiche of Kim Kardashian sticking her fishnet stockings on a mound of earth catches the eye of the Daily Mail, then that of Time Magazine. Since then, his publications have been followed by nearly 10 million fans.
When Celeste Barber parodies Rihanna… (Instagram celestebarber)
51 million raised
In January 2020, the actress mobilized to help Australian firefighters, then on the front line in the face of the most devastating wave of fires ever experienced by the country. His Facebook video calling for donations allowed the online fundraiser to explode the initial goal of $30,000: in total, more than $51 million was raised and donated to the State of New South Wales, on the east coast of the country.
Sport, very little for her
Consecrated in one of Marie Claire Australian in February, Barber poses there with the paraphernalia of the trendy sportswoman: wetsuit, swimming goggles, state-of-the-art paddle, silk jogging and even gymnastic rings. The forties restores the truth in the interview: her main physical activity remains the morning outing of her dog, accompanied by a little yoga during the tours of her one-woman-show. A jump from time to time in the gyms of the hotels where she stays. “Sometimes just to sit on it!” »
Barber was consecrated on the cover of Australia’s “Marie Claire” last February.
His targets admire him
His “victims” Cindy Crawford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jessica Alba or Sharon Stone are among his admirers. Some of its “targets” nevertheless preferred to respond by blocking it on the networks. This is the case of the famous model Emily Ratajkowski, parodied as she poses in a bikini against a door. The legend signed Celeste Barber (“Stop objectifying our bodies. Ah, by the way, here is my butt”), which is ironic about the asserted feminism of the supermodel, has divided. A controversy quickly extinguished by the comedian, who recalled that it would always remain the most ridiculous in history.
