Barbie Ferreira is the ultimate post-internet It-girl, a straight-up Gen Z phenomenon. Before she vaulted to stardom on HBO’s debauched teen drama Euphoria, she had already been named among Time magazine’s most influential teens of 2016, along with gymnast Simone Biles and Game of Thrones’s Maisie Williams.
Her impressive modelling career for luxury fashion labels turned her into a body positivity advocate – and a role model for girls in the process. By 19, she had conquered internet fame, thanks to her viral grungey Tumblr account plastered with selfies taken sprawled across her sofa, pouting in dark purple lipstick, a silver septum ring between her nostrils. Becoming a revelation on the buzziest high-school drama since Skins, then, felt like it was already written in the stars.
