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  Shane and Sia Barbi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shane Barbi and Sia Barbi, also known as The Barbi Twins (born April 2, 1963 in San Diego, California), are identical twins and pin-up models.
Shane and Sia posed together in two top-selling issues of Playboy, and also in several internationally-distributed calendars.
Shane and Sia began modelling at the age of seven when they posed for a layout in the Sears mail-order catalog.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shane_and_Sia_Barbi   (546 words)

  
 Barbi Twins Chat Transcript - CBS News
Shane Barbi: People who are eating too much or eating when they're not hungry are trying to smother their emotions and an interesting fact that we have found through our research is most overweight people are not overweight necessarily from eating too much but inconsistent eating of dieting and bingeing.
Sia Barbi: If it's really out of control the best thing to do is an intervention with family friends, co-workers and loved ones along with a specialist that intervenes on how they see her disease affect everyone and destroy herself.
Shane Barbi: Because it is a disease about control it is very important that you let her know how you feel without controlling her and let it be her choice for what she does.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/03/15/48hours/main279191.shtml   (2985 words)

  
 CBSNews.com: Print This Story
Sia Barbi: It was somewhat inherited but we didn't show signs, we didn't really come to the conclusion that we were bulimic until we were purging.
Sia Barbi: The only reason why I did come out, because it is very difficult, is because I wanted to reach out to someone the way I wanted someone to reach out to me. I was sick of all those perfect models with their perfect lives and no problems.
Sia Barbi: Once you've learned how to eat, let it go and move into the issues that is turning you to eating or purging which is the exact same disease.
uttm.com /stories/2001/03/15/48hours/printable279191.shtml   (2903 words)

  
 The Kitty Liberation Front
Shane and Sia Barbi grew up seperately, but both aspired to be veterinarians.
The Barbis have turned down work to now focus solely on helping the welfare of animals by assisting to pass animal cruelty laws, help boycott the circus and zoos, stop breeding and puppy mills, stop rescues from hoarding, assist with spay and neuter programs to stop pet over population, and so much more.
Ken Wahl, award winning "Wiseguy" actor, married to Shane Barbi since 1997, is also an advocate for animals and now devotes his time to animal charities as a team effort with his wife Shane.
thekittyliberationfront.org /ABOUT.htm   (557 words)

  
 edr: celebrities + public figures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sia and Shane Barbi, now 36, are going public with details of their struggle with compulsive overeating, anorexia and bulimia, the binge- and-purge eating disorder, during their modeling career.
They say they finally realized they had to get help with their eating disorder when Sia overdosed on laxatives in 1996 and had to be rushed to the emergency room.
Shane, who is married to actor Ken Wahl (Wiseguy), would love to have a baby but has had several miscarriages, which she also blames on problems from the disorders.
www.eatingdisorderresources.com /celebs/barbitwins.htm   (2133 words)

  
 Barbi TWINS - Official web source for Shane and Sia Barbi
Shane and Sia Barbi, the Barbi Twins, became household names worldwide as celebrity models, including, but not limited to, top-selling calendars released world-wide and record breaking Playboy issues.
Shane and Sia have different projects they are working on and will keep you informed here when they will take place.
But most of all we are real people, and who better to reach out to a real person (man or woman) than one who has been there and done that.
www.shaneandsiabarbitwins.com /Barbi_Twins_Main_Page.htm   (338 words)

  
 Shane and Sia Barbi - TheBestLinks.com - April 2, Playboy, San Diego, California, ...
Shane and Sia Barbi - TheBestLinks.com - April 2, Playboy, San Diego, California,...
Shane and Sia Barbi, April 2, Playboy, San Diego, California, United States...
The Barbi Twins (born April 2, 1963) are identical twins who became famous in the 1990s as pinup models, posing together in two of Playboy's top selling issues.
www.thebestlinks.com /Shane_and_Sia_Barbi.html   (198 words)

  
 edr: celebrities + public figures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
OP pinup models Shane and Sia Barbi are reaching out to Wynonna Judd--who recently went public with her desperate battle to lose weight--by sharing their life-and-death struggle with eating disorders.
"Shane and I were touched by Wynonna's endearing honesty on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' when she talked about her battle with food and weight," Sia told The Enquirer.
~THE BARBI TWINS, Shane and Sia, have had run-ins of their own with life-threatening eating disorders and want Wynonna to know what worked for them and that help is available.
www.eatingdisorderresources.com /celebs/barbiswynonna.htm   (547 words)

  
 Barbi Twins Activated!
In 1996, Sia had to be rushed to the hospital after she overdosed on laxatives.
The elder Barbi, a former Miss Ohio and Miss America runner-up, divorced her husband when the twins were two years old, and is rumored to have been romantically linked with Shane and Sia's godmother, Dusty "Son of a Preacher Man" Springfield.
Ma Barbi also had an affair with a well-known actress, of whom Franklin will only say that she starred in a television cop drama during the late '70s and early '80s.
www.kapelovitz.com /barbis.htm   (990 words)

  
 WB Chat Complex: Chat Transcripts: The Barbi Twins ~ 2/8/99 8PM
Shane Barbi says: The book is called "Dying To Be Healthy And Fit" - it will be out in summer and it will be part of a huge health and fitness campaign with billboards, TV cartoons, as well as a video as well as a health and fitness calendar.
Shane Barbi says: We were so flattered, and overwhelmed when we first got into the business in 1990, we set out to do a calendar and a poster, we had no idea that through Playboy we would become a so called household name.
Shane Barbi says: I hope that the woman of 2000 can not focus so much on beauty, and any destructive shortcuts, but really work on health and fitness and daily good efforts - where beauty is a bi-product and men therefore love us for our efforts.
chat.wb.com /cmp/990208.html   (2929 words)

  
 >>The Barbi Twins : About Shane & Sia Barbi <<   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Barbis have an upcoming animal rescue radio show, as well as doing a documentary with top veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad of ANIMAL GENERAL HOSPITAL, and continue to support many other animal orginizations, such as Animal General Hospital, Pryor's Planet and Best Friends.
Shane and Sia moved around a lot and at times lived separately (one with their mother while the other was with their father).
Shane and Sia love baseball (both playing and watching professional baseball), belly dancing, and horseback riding and exercising.
officialbarbitwins.com /about.html   (687 words)

  
 Advocate, The: Twin peeks - models Shane and Sia Barbi - Interview
In one of fate's more glaring ironies, Shane and her twin sister, Sia, grew up with a very feminine mom--last name: Barbi--who happens to be a lesbian.
Having come from a family with a "nurturing, very evolved" feminist mother and a godmother better known as Dusty Springfield, Shane and Sia went through a long evolution before becoming the "Barbi twins." They began modeling 29 years ago, at age 7, Shane says, and it was always "like dressing in drag.
Sia has even written a serious anecdote- and resource-filled book about nutrition called Dying to Be Healthy.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2001_Feb_13/ai_70368286   (420 words)

  
 Barbi Twins to the Rescue!
SIA: When people ask when I started my food disorder, [I tell them] there was no pinpoint, because it starts with other compulsions.
SIA: What people see as disgusting—really dirty and left in the bathroom, not even the bedroom—turns you on.
SIA: Whatever you seek in seeing someone vomit you might seek in chemicals that are missing that could be replaced by medication.
www.kapelovitz.com /barbibarfi.htm   (1316 words)

  
 Barbi Twins Results - Barbi Twins Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Shane and sia barbi, the international models and hollywood celebrities professionally known as the barbi twins, were forced to leave the entertainment industry at the height of their careers due to a life threatening eating disorder.
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 Sex Blogs » Barbi Twins - Where Are They Now?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Shane and Sia Barbi first shot to fame in the mid 90’s with two of Playboy’s top selling issues.
They were also riding the post 9/11 marketing wave and were declared the Official PinUp Girls of the US Military and published a calendar and series of posters with their healthy selves spread out all over the American flag.
The Barbi Twins also did a great interview with the Advocate, a gay magazine, about growing up with a Lesbian mother and beating their eating disorders.
www.sex-blogs.com /index.php?p=7   (421 words)

  
 vB Easy Archive - E700 Walpapers
Shane and Sia Barbi in swimsuits (completely clothed - mod) on the rocks.
Shane and Sia Barbi in swimsuits (completely clothed - mod).
Shane and Sia Barbi in swimsuits (completely clothed - mod) on the beach.
www.howardforums.com /archive/topic/213432-4.html   (718 words)

  
 Beauties' Ugly Secret - CBS News
Sia and Shane were featured in racy swimsuit calendars and graced the cover of two issues of Playboy magazine.
Shane and Sia Barbi talked candidly after the broadcast in a 48 Hours live chat.
Rock bottom came when Sia collapsed after taking more than 100 laxatives "It looked like she had a cardiac arrest or she was paralyzed on the right side," says Shane.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/03/12/48hours/main278187.shtml   (495 words)

  
 Whatever Happened To: The Barbi Twins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Suffering from bulemia, they quit the limelight at the zenith of their celebrity to recover after Sia overdosed on laxatives.
They are now recovered and are on the lecture circuit to spread awareness of eating disorders (namely bulemia and anorexia); they authored a book Dying to Be Healthy.
Barbi Twins - Dying To Be Healthy: Millennium Dieting and Nutrition
www.weht.net /WEHT/The_Barbi_Twins.html   (150 words)

  
 »»Recovery Reviews««
Sia's account of bulimia was too vague on many levels, though I applaud her and Shane's courage for revealing at all, an otherwise private and personal condition.
Sia seemed to shy away from including too many personal details, which left the me reader (and a recovering bulimic myself) feeling somewhat cheated.
Sia should instead have concentrated on more personal issues of why they were so deep into eating disorders and how they got help.
www.financial-book-review.com /Recovery/Recovery_151.html   (4044 words)

  
 Amazon.fr :  History of the Barbi Twins : Livres en anglais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ever since Shane and Sia Barbi exploded upon the world with a larger-than-life billboard erected over Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, they were overnight celebrities.
Their sudden rise to international superstardom as the beautiful, bodacious Barbi Twins was an unprecedented phenomenon in celebrity history.
Packed with photos and text, History of the Barbi Twins illustrates the story of how the sexy and sensuous siblings made every man and woman's "double fantasy" come to life and, by doing so, made two beautiful, buxom blondes a household name.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/1890313017/reviews   (1099 words)

  
 Netcenter Star Profiles
Lightning struck not once but twice, as native Californian identical twins SHANE and SIA BARBI (yes, that's their German family name) catapulted to fame when a voluptuous picture of the Twins was plastered on a billboard over Sunset Boulevard.
From belly dancers to celebrities to comic heroines, identical twins Shane and Sia Barbi became the buzz of the town that buzzes for a living.
Shortly thereafter, the 5'9" bodacious beach bunnies made history when twelve test shots from an amateur photographer were picked up by a start-up calendar company that propelled the calendar cuties to the number one pin-up spot.
browsers.netscape.com /etonline/profiles/barbitwins/barbitwins_profile.html   (154 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Former Playboy twins sue Larry Flynt for return of explicit photos
LOS ANGELES – Former Playboy playmates the Barbi Twins have sued porn king Larry Flynt to prevent his use of sexually explicit photos of the sisters.
The suit, filed Monday in Superior Court, claims that someone gave Flynt photos taken by Shane Barbi's husband, actor Ken Wahl.
The man who sold the pictures to Flynt also wrote an article describing the contact between Shane and Sia Barbi during the photography session, according to the suit.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20031112-1909-ca-people-barbitwins.html   (272 words)

  
 XBiz - Barbi Twins Sue Flynt
BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Former Playboy models Shane and Sia Barbi, also known as the Barbi Twins, filed suit against Larry Flynt this week for publishing unauthorized photos of them in the January issue of Hustler.
The photos in question were taken by Shane Barbi's husband, actor Ken Wahl, and show the two models engaging in what Hustler publicist Cindy Rakowitz calls "kinky and incestuous fantasy role playing."
XBiz was not able to reach the Barbi twins or their lawyer Jeff Le Beau for comment.
xbiz.com /news_piece.php?id=1194   (669 words)

  
 Barbi TWINS - Shane and Sia - Models and Spokespersons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Barbi TWINS - Shane and Sia - Models and Spokespersons
Shane and Sia Barbi (The Barbi Twins) now have their personal website to update their fans with
If you are a fan and want to know what's new and happening with the Barbi Twins, that is the place to go!
www.calendardepot.com /twins.htm   (60 words)

  
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Like the famed doll that shares their name, Barbis Shan and Sia are the ultimate California girls: tall,...
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