Shane and Sia Barbi - aka the Barbi Twins - are long-haired renegades who do things their own way, kind of like a certain country music legend (stay with us here).
Their Saturday morning cartoon was banned for being too sexy. Their documentary "Your Mommy Kills Animals" was deemed "too controversial." Their MTV special was canceled for being inappropriate.
They're kind of like... the Willie Nelson of pin-up girls!
Maybe that's why Willie Nelson's daughter Amy interviewed them - and sent us the wacky transcript!
Nelson - who calls herself the "third Barbi" - met the gals while helping animals injured and orphaned by the California fires. "Like myself, they retired from Hollywood to become full time animal activists," Nelson said.
Later this year, the Barbi Twins, the Willie Nelson family, Bo Derek, and other celebrities will go to Washington DC to lobby for the federal bill to ban horse slaughter and preserve the few wild horses remaining in America. Fox411 will be keeping tabs on their progress.
In the meantime, without further adieu, meet Amy, Shane and Sia.
Shane Barbi: Amy, can you just ask rhetorical questions? I already have the answers.
Amy Nelson: OK you guys, what type of impact do you think you two left with your fans?
Sia Barbi: Wait...we have fans?
Shane Barbi: I think we were good role models for the recession because we started the cheap look. That made us popular gag gifts.
Amy Nelson: Do you two compete or complete each other?
Shane Barbi: We only complete each other sentences, it's pretty annoying.
Amy Nelson: Tell me about the controversy over your career?
Sia Barbi: Wait, we have a career?
Shane Barbi: Can you say anything without sarcasm Sia?
Sia Barbi: Just explain why we are so weird, and get on with it.
Shane Barbi: All right, well we started out just wanting to document ourselves on print before we blimped out to 300 lbs like the Nutty Professor and then our bulimia--
Sia Barbi: My ears are melting, am I at Guantanamo Bay?..... this is TORTURE!!!!! Get to the point.
Shane Barbi: Well basically we were infamous, mostly because we can't act, sing or dance. In the beginning I remember saying, "mom, dad, there's good news and bad news....the good news, I guess, is that we are pretty famous, but the bad news is, we are famous for nothing!"
Sia Barbi: Most people thought we were bimbos, but I think we gave bimbos a bad name. Wait, what was the question?
Amy Nelson: What are the good and bad parts of being internationally famous models?
Shane Barbi: The good part is we put our car-accident-circus-freak 7 and-a-half minutes of fame towards animal causes. And the bad part is we are the poster child for puking.
Sia Barbi: More like we were a clone experiment gone wrong.
Amy Nelson: What advice can you give to people that want to get into Hollywood?
Shane Barbi: Hef told us in order to be successful, you have to be the first of your kind, an original.
Sia Barbi: How can you be original when you are a twin, genius?
Shane Barbi: I'm the first born, hence, original. Sorry I had to spell it out to you like this.
Sia Barbi: Seriously, my advice is that you have to be careful. I won't forget when I was being followed by a creep who use to hide in the bushes. Sadly, it turned out to be my sister, Shane.
Shane Barbi: You co-dependent idiot, that was you in the bushes, not me!
Sia Barbi: Ooops, who am I?
Shane Barbi: Do you always have to get the last word in?
Ok another "model" going on the animal rights thing, people should not be cruel to animals, we know that but they are animals, lets not get them mixed up with people, what about all the CHILDREN who are mistreated in the world ,used by the sex industry which thes two girls make a living off, sorry its hard to take them seriously. Life is a whole lot bigger than what is going on with this....
I'm glad to see there are people out there who care about something other than 'just themselves'. For the selfish people out there; inhumane animal slaughter has ramifications to your health. When you eat animals who've lived in crates their entire lives and cruelly slaughtered, (which you do) you injest dioxins and toxic extretions that are released into their systems. And because they no longer have roaming capacity, CLA is no longer in your diet- which is why most people are fat and unhealthy
The Anti-Horse Slaughter Bill in Congress will create more inhumane treatment for horses than save horses. Extreme animal rights organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States & PETA have been successful in closing the last 3 remaining horse rendering facilities in the country. Since then we have seen an increase in the abandonment and neglect for horses due to the high costs of caring for aging and ailing horses. Keep in mind the law of unintended consequences people.
WOW!!! These girls are not only funny and beautiful but they have a really good heart too!!!
I am glad that they put their fame and energy into protecting animals. Animals get very little help in this country unfortunately. They are a great start to make the world a better place.
C'mon! Does anybody really take the plastic girls seriously? I bet 10 animals died testing the crap that's in their bodies right now. This is ridiculous! Almost as ridiculous as all the animal lovers. God's nightgown! They're animals!! How about a real life-related discussion? Like what BBQ sauce to use on your favorite meat...
This is another misguided effort. What happens to a 1000 pound animal when it is not needed? That needs 50+ pounds of hay a day or 7 acres of pasture. This isn't a 2 pound toy dog. Ya thank about it. I'm a rancher a have seen horses turn loose and starving to death. My horses eat $80 a month each, well did because I sold them or should I say I almost gave them away. Nobody in their right mine would want one under these conditions. Yep I bought gators to herd cattle. Lets burn up the Ozone E-ha.
To begin w/ I own horses and have been around them all my life so what they are doing sounds absurd. Why are they going to DC to preserve wild horses, just in North Dakota they are rounding up horses off a national reserve because there are too many. If they keep letting the the wild horses roam they eat all the grass. So what they'll have more horses and no buffalo, or elk or anything else that are foragers.
It isn't the old and infirmed that are slaughtered. They are of all ages. Young healthy horses that find themselves in a kill pen for no other than reason than because an owner just didn't care.
Your Government (US) is condoning the BLM on taking away millions of acres of land designated for the wild horses (as per the 1971 law) and zeroing out every single wild horse.
For an excellent piece go to thecloudfoundation.org, go to blog and see George Knapp's blog on Stampede to Oblivion.
To 'Me': People make their OWN choices to smoke. Animals DO NOT choose to be experimented on. Animals DO NOT choose to have chemicals poured into their bodies and lipstick smeared on them. It's ridiculous that even though these women are doing something beneficial, here YOU are criticizing them over an entirely different subject. Personally, I find cigarettes disgusting and I'm not too crazy about the Barbi Twins either BUT I completely respect these women for their humane actions.
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Cliff
Ok another "model" going on the animal rights thing, people should not be cruel to animals, we know that but they are animals, lets not get them mixed up with people, what about all the CHILDREN who are mistreated in the world ,used by the sex industry which thes two girls make a living off, sorry its hard to take them seriously. Life is a whole lot bigger than what is going on with this....
Robin
I'm glad to see there are people out there who care about something other than 'just themselves'. For the selfish people out there; inhumane animal slaughter has ramifications to your health. When you eat animals who've lived in crates their entire lives and cruelly slaughtered, (which you do) you injest dioxins and toxic extretions that are released into their systems. And because they no longer have roaming capacity, CLA is no longer in your diet- which is why most people are fat and unhealthy
John
The Anti-Horse Slaughter Bill in Congress will create more inhumane treatment for horses than save horses. Extreme animal rights organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States & PETA have been successful in closing the last 3 remaining horse rendering facilities in the country. Since then we have seen an increase in the abandonment and neglect for horses due to the high costs of caring for aging and ailing horses. Keep in mind the law of unintended consequences people.
Suz
WOW!!! These girls are not only funny and beautiful but they have a really good heart too!!! I am glad that they put their fame and energy into protecting animals. Animals get very little help in this country unfortunately. They are a great start to make the world a better place.
PUHLEEZ!
C'mon! Does anybody really take the plastic girls seriously? I bet 10 animals died testing the crap that's in their bodies right now. This is ridiculous! Almost as ridiculous as all the animal lovers. God's nightgown! They're animals!! How about a real life-related discussion? Like what BBQ sauce to use on your favorite meat...
Charles Graham
This is another misguided effort. What happens to a 1000 pound animal when it is not needed? That needs 50+ pounds of hay a day or 7 acres of pasture. This isn't a 2 pound toy dog. Ya thank about it. I'm a rancher a have seen horses turn loose and starving to death. My horses eat $80 a month each, well did because I sold them or should I say I almost gave them away. Nobody in their right mine would want one under these conditions. Yep I bought gators to herd cattle. Lets burn up the Ozone E-ha.
Khayaaliy
To begin w/ I own horses and have been around them all my life so what they are doing sounds absurd. Why are they going to DC to preserve wild horses, just in North Dakota they are rounding up horses off a national reserve because there are too many. If they keep letting the the wild horses roam they eat all the grass. So what they'll have more horses and no buffalo, or elk or anything else that are foragers.
Margaret
It isn't the old and infirmed that are slaughtered. They are of all ages. Young healthy horses that find themselves in a kill pen for no other than reason than because an owner just didn't care. Your Government (US) is condoning the BLM on taking away millions of acres of land designated for the wild horses (as per the 1971 law) and zeroing out every single wild horse. For an excellent piece go to thecloudfoundation.org, go to blog and see George Knapp's blog on Stampede to Oblivion.
Chris
To 'Me': People make their OWN choices to smoke. Animals DO NOT choose to be experimented on. Animals DO NOT choose to have chemicals poured into their bodies and lipstick smeared on them. It's ridiculous that even though these women are doing something beneficial, here YOU are criticizing them over an entirely different subject. Personally, I find cigarettes disgusting and I'm not too crazy about the Barbi Twins either BUT I completely respect these women for their humane actions.
Jerry
Great work! Beauty,brains, and kindness - what a combination!