The 40-year-old has built up a reputation of taking very good care of her body and looks and maintained a svelte figure, with the help of a vegetarian diet, prior to getting pregnant for the first time in 2013.
During her pregnancy, she stopped being a vegetarian and saw her weight increase to 79 kilograms, but Barbie was unaffected by it as she wanted to ensure that her then-unborn baby would receive as much nutrients as possible. Even after giving birth, she is reported to have found satisfaction in her fuller figure and has since decided to focus on living well, instead of obsessing over her weight.
Barbie used to be extremely thin because of her extreme diet and depression, but was not in the pink of health. Clarifying that she used to eat oatmeal for breakfast because of its convenience, she added that she stopped doing so about a decade ago. She expressed, “I’m not sure why there have been strange people who have been spreading nonsense (about me)! This is really frustrating!”
Her husband, Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, was slammed in April over his comment on her baby weight. He posted a past photo of his wife when she was slimmer on his Weibo with the caption, “Will this be a photo from after she gives birth to the little brother?” Netizens promptly shot his statement down with comments such as, “Then please don’t make her have one child after another for you — she’ll look far better than she does in this photo”.