Shane and Sia Barbi
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| Born |
Shane and Sia Barbi April 2, 1963 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Barbi Twins |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
| Spouse(s) | Shane to Ken Wahl (1997–present) |
| Website | Official website |
Shane and Sia Barbi (born April 2, 1963), popularly known as The Barbi Twins, are identical twins, cover models, co-authors, and spokespersons for animal rights advocacy.
Shane and Sia began modeling at the age of seven when they posed for a layout in the Sears mail-order catalog. As adults, their career has included fashion and mainly pin-up modeling. The Los Angeles Times did a cover story about the Barbi Twins when their billboard went up on Sunset Boulevard in 1989 immediately catapulting them to world wide attention. In 1989, 1990, and early 1991, they modeled for Chanel, Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano and others.
According to their 2001 E! True Hollywood Story, the billboard, and the press that came from it, caught the eye of Hugh Hefner. The twins were put on the cover of Playboy magazine in the September 1991 issue which broke records by selling out in less than two weeks. In an unprecedented move, Hefner erected a billboard to promote the Barbi Twins and their second Playboy issue (which also broke sales records).
USA Today said that the twins career brought them “caviar dreams and champagne life styles of the rich and famous”. Playboy called their covers “legendary” and credited their subsequent television appearances with “the highest ratings,” remarking that the twins became Hollywood landmarks and global obsessions. The twins have also generated a degree of controversy – a Saturday morning cartoon and an MTV show were criticized for being “too sexy” or “too controversial".
Magazines and tabloids called them everything from "the sexiest twins alive” and "the best selling calendar models of the world” (Cosmopolitan UK) to referring to them as both “bizarre and bulimic” and “sexual icons and America’s cartoon sweethearts” (Entertainment Weekly) The London Sun said that the Barbi Twins “took the glamour world by storm”. They were a favorite for cover models appearing on the covers and inside not only Playboy but mainstream national and international magazines including Cosmopolitan and Redbook. Newspapers, magazines and tabloids including 'USA TODAY, Sunday Magazine’s News of the World, and the Daily Star, were plastered with articles and pictures of the twins.
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