Celeste Barber Heart Surgery: Utilizing her completely relatable existence as a backdrop, the comedian and actress make fun of the false representation of celebrities on social media and recreates their postings using her quick wit and cleverness.
Hollywood is practically knocking on her door since her book, Challenge Accepted!, is presently being optioned for a television series, proving that she has achieved mainstream success. However, this monumental victory comes after a period of extreme adversity. I’ve never really put myself into a weight-loss program. That is not to say that I haven’t experimented with diets such as “no carbohydrates after 11 a.m.” or “if it’s white,
don’t eat it,” all in the name of weight loss.
In my earlier years, it is true that I have set up camp, boiled the kettle, signed onto Netflix, and made myself at home in my hatred of my body, but I am very positive that I have never really committed to exclusively eating a specific way in order to look a certain way.
I had emergency open-heart surgery when I was 25 years old, and after eight weeks of crazy, full-on drugs, I embarked on a no sugar, no dairy, no gluten, no taste cleanse, which was supplemented by a few colonics to try and rid myself of the constipating drugs that had taken up residence in my system.
The mum-of-two opens up about how, at the age of 25, a treatment to repair a hole in her heart evolved into emergency open-heart surgery in the March edition of InStyle Australia (for which she is the cover star).
“At the risk of sounding too dramatic, I was on the verge of passing out — it was f ***ing insane,” she said.
Hollywood is practically knocking on her door since her book Challenge Accepted! is presently being optioned for a television series, proving that she has achieved mainstream success. However, this monumental victory comes after a period of extreme adversity.
The mum-of-two opens up about how, at the age of 25, a treatment to repair a hole in her heart evolved into emergency open-heart surgery in the March edition of InStyle Australia (for which she is the cover star).
“At the risk of sounding too dramatic, I was on the verge of passing out — it was f ***ing insane,” she said.
“And the recovery was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before — they truly tore at my heartstrings.” The concept that my heart had been sliced open… had a profound effect on me.
“And the recovery was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before — they truly tore at my heartstrings.” The concept that my heart had been sliced open… had a profound effect on me.
After she committed herself, her closest friend and former All Saints co-star, Mike Priestley, committed himself a few months later. The devastating news exacerbated an already difficult phase of recovery, making it seem impossible to see a way forwards.
In recovery, “I recall that period as a large, dark couple of years,” says the author, “feeling devastated and [being] physically grieved.” Is this the panacea for her anguish? Comedy. “It’s a way of dealing with things,” she stated. “I say something amusing and inappropriate simply to get the discomfort out of the way,” I explain.