Barbi Twins Shane and Sia, always reliable in bringing something to bare, will soon go to Washington and lobby for an animal rights bill.
Shane and Sia Barbi, known better as the Barbi Twins, are headed to Washington D.C. later in 2009 to fight for a federal bill that bans horse slaughter and protects wild horses, an endangered species.
The twins, who are longtime animal rights activists, are joining celebrities such as Bo Derek and Willie Nelson for the cause. Willie’s daughter Amy recently interviewed the duo – about fame and how they see themselves, having both publicly dealt with bulimia and overcome it. The transcript later hit the celebrity site Fox 411.
“Wait,” Sia said during the interview. “We have a career?”
Certainly they realize that their popularity, even at its peak in the 1990s, has had double edges.
“The good part is, we put our car-accident-circus-freak-seven-and-a-half minutes of fame towards animal causes,” Shane said. “And the bad part is, we are the poster child for puking.”
Shane added that she and her sister became celebrities for no tangible reason aside from the novelty of being curvy twins who posed together. “Basically we were infamous, mostly because we can’t act, sing or dance,” she said. “In the beginning I remember saying, ‘Mom, Dad – there’s good news and bad news. The good news, I guess, is that we are pretty famous, but the bad news is, we are famous for nothing!’”
Sia didn’t exactly disagree. “Most people thought we were bimbos, but I think we gave bimbos a bad name.”
At one point, the sisters denied having undergone plastic surgery to help enhance the photos that made them famous. An Entertainment Weekly interviewer asked in 1993 about possible breast implants, rhinoplasty or collagen injections, and they said no.
“My sister is a B cup and I’m a D, and if we can hide that, it just goes to show you can fake anything,” Shane said. The other Barbi seemed more pragmatic. “I’m deathly scared of being put to sleep,” Sia said. “But if I was awake and it wasn’t so bad for me….”
Since then, there’s been no confirmation of either Barbi going under the knife. But, something about their strong personalities suggests that if they did, they wouldn’t mind admitting it.
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