How Barbie Ferreira is fighting against fat-shaming in Hollywood

Barbie Ferreira, best known for her role on “Euphoria,” is appearing in her first movie, “Unpregnant.” When Barbie Ferreira was a plus-size model, most of her friends looked like her. I just have to keep going.” On “Euphoria,” the HBO series that introduced Ferreira to a wider audience last year, Ferreira’s weight is central to her character’s backstory. “I thought it was going to be really glamorous — like, ‘Oh, my God, I get to go to Europe and work!’” she says, dropping her sweet potato slices into a frying pan. “Maybe the animated voice of a tree.” Ben Evans, a painter who has become one of Ferreira’s best friends, says she always talks to him about how she wants to be in “some very cool, indie horror movie, which I think she’d kill in.” “We constantly talk about the future, and she’s dealt with all of this really well,” says Evans, referring to her post-“Euphoria” fame. I hike and work out now to get the same kind of anxiety release.” She holds her finished sweet potato hash up to the camera, even though she has deemed it “ugly.” At the moment, she’s not eating red meat, sugar or cheese — rules she says she has temporarily implemented after months of indulging in too much doughnuts and steak during quarantine.