Gearing up for a full day of interviews, Celeste Barber ordered a green juice.

After all, liquid veggies are a ‘healthy choice’ spruiked by health and wellness influencers online every damn day, so it seemed like an ideal way to kick off the morning.

But when it arrived… well, no. Yuck.

Celeste Barber on being called “brave”. Post continues below video.

Instant regret.

“Here’s my advice: Don’t ever take advice from someone who’s famous online,” Barber toldMamamiaover the phone.

She’d just been asked what pearls of wisdom she had to share about well, life: Being in the public eye, juggling all the facets of life, raising boys and blended families.

But when you think about that green juice… well, it applies to that too.

Barber has been a pretty big deal on the internet for years now, thanks to her hilarious celebrity parodies.

No one is off limits: She’s made parody photos of Beyonce, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus, to name just a few andbeingparodied by Barber has become a bit of a status symbol.

Barber toldMamamiashe’ll never “kiss and tell”, but she regularly receives DMs from celebs hoping she’ll copy their photo, or offering suggestions of other celebs to make fun of – lovingly, of course.

“That happens all the time… It’s usually in good spirit.

“I never kiss and tell. Especially if one of them is a Scientologist, they’ll kill me. Not that they are… I don’t know who is,” she joked.

“It’s all kind of a bit nuts. There’s no one specific person, they’re all in good humour.”

Her images have attracted millions of Instagram followers – and many celebrity fans – but in January, Barber’s profile went even more global when she began a bushfire fundraiser.

Within weeks, the Facebook fundraiser raised more than $51 million from supporters around the globe.

It was a mind blowing amount, spurred on by Barber documenting the experiences of her in-laws, the parents of her husband Api Robin, who live in Eden on NSW’s South Coast.

During the very worst of the bushfire crisis in January, she shared updates like her father-in-law being evacuated, while her mother-in-law and brother-in-law sat on tug boats waiting.

Photos from the family’s home showed a terrifying blood-red sky, the same sky millions of Australians woke up to in the days and weeks as the bushfires raged on.

And while Barber has always been candid and open on her social media, this unfiltered look at the bushfire crisis resonated throughout the world.

It also shone a spotlight on not just her and her work, but her entire family. What was it like dealing with the scrutiny?

“People are so nice to us, you have no idea,” she toldMamamia.

“Like, even in the street, people aresokind to us. I cannot begin to tell you.

“It’s so lovely. We feel so supported and grateful and my husband, asking about his family. When all those fires were happening we were sending them updates on the fundraiser and the comments and stuff we were getting – it really lifted their spirits. We are so grateful that people are so good to us. We really are, it’s so nice.”

So yes. It’s only early March, but Barber’s already had a year so busy you could forgive her for wanting to slow down for a while.

But that is, unsurprisingly, not the case.

While the bushfire crisis is, thankfully, over (this week marked the first time since July 2019 no active bush or grass fires have burned in NSW), Barber’s been working with lawyers and the NSW Rural Fire Service to distribute the millions raised effectively.

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She’s just announced a partnership with Audible, which she says has helped her become the well-read person she always wanted to be.

She’s also working on some projects in the United States, doing “a lot” of writing – and a whole other bunch of projects she has to keep under wraps.

“A lot of things I’m not allowed to talk about, which used to always annoy me when I’d hear interviews with people, they’d be like ‘Yeah, I’m doing all this stuff but I can’t talk about it’ and I’d think ‘How fancy do you think you are? Just say it,’ and it turns out you’re not allowed to.”

And yet, somehow, Barber also found time for a campervan holiday with her family in New Zealand (“

Still, even without enough space to store her shoes, they had a great time.

That seems to be a recurring theme in our chat, and it’s clear this is exactly why people love Celeste Barber so much.

There’s no sugar coating or veil of perfection. She’s hilarious, and honest. And when our social media feeds are full of highly filtered, curated images, that’s incredibly refreshing.

That’s probably why she’s hesitant to dish out advice: “Just do the best you freaking can,” she said.

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And if that involves putting on an audiobook version ofHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsso you can drive the kids to school in peace, so be it.

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