Australian comedian cheekily recreates celebrity Instagrams

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Australian comedian Celeste Barber has had it up to here with celebrities and their "real-life" selfies. So, naturally, she turned to comedy to skewer the trend.

Barber has started posting parodies of celebrity Instragram photos, along with the hashtag #celestechallengeaccepted. Barber unabashedly mocks the "unposed" snapshots of Miranda Kerr eating junk food, and Gisele Bündchen flipping her hair. By recreating the photos with a sardonically raised eyebrow, Barber points out the absurdity of the world's obsession with celebrity.

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"People take it all too seriously, they have such an obsession with celebrities, the rich, the privileged and all these life-style blogger [sic] but yet the celebrities think they are doing normal things," Barber tells Daily Mail Australia. "Kim Kardashian posing in a pile of dirt - who does that in real life?"

Barber claims that by making light of these photos, which take themselves so seriously, it's more empowering for other women out there.

"Really I am turning the mirror back on the celebrities as I am very pro-woman and I get frustrated when people say you should be or act a certain way."

Check out some of Barber's pointed celeb impressions below:

I love pretending to eat what I want so my fans can feel even worse about themselves. #celestechallengeaccepted #nailedit #funny #funnywomen #thefatjewish A photo posted by Celeste Barber (@celestebarber) on Jul 20, 2015 at 5:03pm PDT

Don't you hate it when you fall over on a dirt pile and your husband demands a photo shoot? I do. #celestechallengeaccepted #kimkardashian #dirtpile @chiefandkewpie #nailedit A photo posted by Celeste Barber (@celestebarber) on Jul 14, 2015 at 11:09pm PDT

#tbt. Summers coming. #celestechallengeaccepted #gisele #nailedit #funnywomen #beach #bikinibody A photo posted by Celeste Barber (@celestebarber) on Aug 12, 2015 at 8:58pm PDT

Saturday afternoon reading. #celestechallengeaccepted #mirandakerr #reading #glasses #funny #funnywomen #nailedit #grug # A photo posted by Celeste Barber (@celestebarber) on Aug 8, 2015 at 12:35am PDT

Weekend inspiration #Celestechallengeaccepted #miranderkerr #nailedit #truth#funny #inspiration #instaquotes A photo posted by Celeste Barber (@celestebarber) on Aug 14, 2015 at 5:22pm PDT

Cutting edge #celestechallengeaccepted #justinbieber #nailedit #funny @dailymail A photo posted by Celeste Barber (@celestebarber) on Aug 15, 2015 at 2:42am PDT


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