TikTok star GK Barry has spoken about having previously ‘felt pressure’ to change her appearance and said that she wears less makeup following her time on I’m A Celebrity
Former I’m A Celebrity campmate GK Barry has shared that she has “felt pressure” to change her appearance.
The content creator, 25 – who’s real name is Grace Keeling – rose to fame on social media platform TikTok, where she has 4 million followers. More recently, she appeared on the latest series of the ITV reality show, which aired last year.
She’s now opened up about feeling a sense of responsibility to her supporters. During a recent interview, GK also spoke about the reaction to her “quite bad” acne from viewers when she was in the jungle in Australia over a month ago.
Discussing being looked up to, GK told the Sun’s Fabulous magazine that she feels the need to “set an example” given that she has a “young audience”. She continued: “Saying: ‘I won’t have work done,’ is important.”
The Saving Grace podcast host added: “I want people to see someone in this industry who looks how they’ve always looked. I’ve felt pressure to get stuff done, especially comments about my nose.” She however said that people should get surgery because they want it not because of others’ opinions.
She also spoke to the outlet about learning to appreciate her natural skin and reducing her makeup usage. Following her departure from I’m A Celebrity in December, GK suggested in a video message to fans on TikTok that her diet in the jungle had “cleared” her skin. She teased in the post at the time: “So if you’ve got acne, just eat rice and beans.”
Whilst speaking to the magazine, she recalled having been “scared” that viewers would “take the mick” over her acne, which she described as “quite bad”. GK however said that she was met with “lovely messages” once she had left the jungle from people who said she made them “feel more comfortable” about their own skin.
The former campmate said that she is now wearing less makeup if she’s not on TV. GK added that symptoms of the skin condition have “cleared up so much” and again teased that anyone “struggling” with their skin should head to Australia and adopt the diet of the campmates.
It comes after the Loose Women guest panelist spoke to the Express last year about the prospect of having cosmetic surgery. She told the outlet that doing so would “contradict” the message of her social media “brand”. She said: “I think because my brand is so, like, being natural and being myself and whatever and taking the p*** out myself, I think [going under the knife] would contradict that if I ever got anything done so I probably wouldn’t.”
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