Celeste Barber explores the extremities of wellness in 'Wellmania'
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If you're one of the 9.5 million people who follow Celeste Barber on Instagram, you already know the Australian comedian will do just about anything for a laugh.
There's no bikini too small and no pose too ludicrous for the 40-year-old, whose self-deprecating spoofs of celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski have, ironically enough, turned her into a major influencer, one who uses her relatable physique to send up the unattainable standards of social media.
Now she's bringing her exuberant brand of comedy to "Wellmania," a Netflix series exploring the extreme and often dubious lengths people are willing to go to in the name of wellness.
Loosely adapted from "Wellmania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness," a book by Australian journalist Brigid Delaney, the series stars Barber as Liv Healy, a hard-partying food writer forced to overhaul her decadent lifestyle and trade in cocaine for colonics after a health crisis.
The series, developed as a vehicle for Barber, is a showcase for her extremely physical style of performance: In the pilot episode, Liv crashes through a glass coffee
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