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.
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Reportedly godchildren of singer Dusty Springfield and the children of a feminist lesbian mother, Shane and Sia began modelling at the age of seven when they posed for a layout in the Sears mail-order catalog. Their adult career has spanned fashion, softcore, and pin-up modelling. After the success of their 1993 calendar released by Topps, Shane and Sia published a premium-rate telephone number called the Barbi Hotline. In addition to the calendar, Topps also published two comic
books and a promotional trading card depicting Shane and Sia. Though the pair’s appearance has led to suggestions of plastic surgery enhancement—the British newspaper the Evening Standard described them as “bizarre distortions of the classical female form with their identical tiny waists, long athletic legs and 38D chests“—the Barbis have maintained that they have never undergone any surgical refinements.
Shane and Sia posed together in two top-selling issues of Playboy, and also in several internationally-distributed calendars. Not long after their Playboy days, they made a foray into voice acting, with several cameo appearances as brunette scientists in the American animated series Eek! The Cat. They also modeled for the fashioned designers Thierry Mugler and John Galliano.
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