Celeste Barber says being an Instagram star has its perks and downfalls

FOR actor, comedian and Instagram parody star Celeste Barber and her “hot husband” Api Robin, social media fame has its perks — and its drawbacks.

Celeste Barber with her “hot husband” Api Robin and their two boys Lou and Buddy. Picture: Darren Leigh Roberts

FOR actor, comedian and Instagram parody star Celeste Barber and her “hot husband” Api Robin, social media fame has its perks — and its drawbacks.

On the plus side, 3.1 million followers helps with blackmailing your kids into doing their chores.

“I have teenage stepdaughters and I throw my celeb following around all the time,” Barber told Confidential. “I’m like, ‘clean your room or I will shame you to 3.1 million people!’”

Celeste Barber uses her social media power as a tool to get her kids to do chores. Picture: Darren Leigh Roberts

But on the down side, you get goaded in the schoolyard when doing the afternoon pick-up.

“At school the other day Api was picking up the kids and a group of 10-year-old girls walked past and yelled ‘hey hot husband!’ and he was like ‘no, no it’s Mr Robin to you’.”

With a celebrity following including Marion Cotillard and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, (garnered from her amusing recreations of iconic celebrity Instagram photos), a book, and a Los Angeles tour on the horizon, Barber is a busy woman.

But she’s also a very funny woman, who has made a career out of poking fun at the ridiculousness of social media — and herself at the same time.

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She posts funny parody images such as this one mocking Kim Kardashian. Picture: Instagram/@celestebarber

Her funny Instagram posts have been seen by millions of people. In this one she is portraying Mariah Carey. Picture: Instagram/@celestebarber

This “unfiltered” approach to Insta-fame has resulted in Barber, her husband and their two sons, Lou, six, and Buddy, four, enlisted to help promote the Bonds Baby Search.

“The campaign this year is all about being real and unfiltered, which is so much more appealing than the ‘fancypantness’ and I am so on board with that,” she said. “I also love a onesie so I was hoping to get a heap of free onesies.”

The Bonds Baby Search 2017 was its biggest year with more than 66,000 entries and almost a million online votes. Entries for the 2018 search open on Thursday.