The Barbi Twins

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Just what are the Barbi Twins famous for?

Well, apart from the four obvious points that stand out to make the Barbi Twins famous that is?

As they themselves describe their activities:

Shane and Sia, the Barbi Twins, are international celebrity models turned celebrity health spokeswomen turned animal activists.

Your humble reporter is not quite so sure about the "celebrity models" part. Back where he came from this sort of modeling was called "glamour" modeling: to distinguish modeling with few or no clothes on from modeling of clothes. The modeling of what is usually beneath the clothes as opposed to the clothes themselves as it were.

Such snark aside it is true that the Barbi Twins are in fact real twins, not just playing at being so for the camera. It's said that their mother was a lesbian psychotherapist (that is, such a therapist who has such sexual tastes, not one for those who do) who after leaving their father went on to have a relationship with Dusty Springfield. But it should also be noted that we shouldn't believe all such stories at face value. The Barbi Twins did a Hustler article at one time and then sued over how a great deal of it seemed to be made up rather than factual reporting.

One thing that definitely is true about the Barbi Twins is that they are indeed now animal activists. They have been, for example, huge supporters of the "Restore Our American Mustangs Act"

But Hastings and others with reservations about the bill have three passionate opponents: former Playboy playmates Shane and Sia Barbi (aka "The Barbi Twins") and Amy Nelson, daughter of country superstar Willie Nelson.

"I gotta be honest: I'm very pro-snake. I'm an animal activist," said Shane Barbi. "But these people are snakes in the way that they're trying to disguise themselves as someone that cares about" animals.

Something which, while they do seem passionate about it, doesn't make a huge amount of sense. It's the "Our American" part about the mustangs that doesn't. For the native American horse became extinct some 10,000 years ago (there are still arguments over whether it was climate or that the first inhabitants of the continent ate them) and all horses in the US now are descendants of those from Asia or Europe over the last four centuries. Mustangs are usually held to be descended from horses which escaped from the early Spanish colonialists.

Still, if that's what the Barbi Twins want to agitate for good luck to them: modelling careers don't go on forever and you've got to find something to occupy your time after 20 years of taking your clothes off.