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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n
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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRead more<\/span><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026Get Me Out of Here<\/em> contestant GK Barry has revealed she was nervous to appear on television due to her appearance. <\/p>\nThe 26-year-old social media star, who rose to fame after garnering millions of views on her TikTok videos during the pandemic, suffered with chronic acne before appearing on the show. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was pretty nervous,\u201d Barry, real name Grace Keeling, said of appearing on the ITV reality show. \u201cMy acne was bad then and I thought viewers would be going, \u2018Oh my God, look at her skin.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Although acne is most common in adolescence, around five per cent of women and one per cent of men experience the skin condition over the age of 25, according to the NHS. <\/p>\n
Barry said, despite her fears about I\u2019m a Celeb<\/em> viewers judging her looks, people actually came up and thanked her for normalising the condition after she left the programme. <\/p>\n\u201cAfterwards mums would come up and thank me for normalising acne for their teenage daughters. I do love mums,\u201d the social media star, who now has over 1.3million followers online, told The Times<\/em>. <\/p>\nThe content creator added: \u201cPeople on TV can be sniffy about social media and nobody over the age of 30 knew who I was, so I was sure I\u2019d be voted out first.\u201d Barry came fifth in the competition: \u201cBetter than I expected,\u201d she said of the impressive result. <\/p>\n
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\u2018I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2019 star GK Barry has revealed she was nervous to appear on TV due to her adult acne (ITV)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe star was beaten only by Strictly<\/em>\u2019s Oti Mabuse, Reverend Richard Coles, Coleen Rooney and McFly singer Danny Jones, who was crowned King of the Jungle. <\/p>\nAfter being eliminated from the series, Barry told jungle host Ant McPartlin that participating had been \u201cso much worse\u201d than what she expected. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so difficult. I thought it would just be tanning, having a good time, a couple of trials,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was hell. I wouldn\u2019t put my worst enemy through that.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cI am starving, I am tired, I have lost any sort of anything that I did have on my body but the people in there were amazing so it made it great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Your support makes all the difference. Read more I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026Get Me Out of Here contestant GK Barry has revealed she was nervous to appear on television due to her appearance. The 26-year-old social media star, who rose to fame after garnering millions of views on her TikTok videos during the pandemic, suffered with chronic acne before appearing on the show. \u201cI was pretty nervous,\u201d Barry, real name Grace Keeling, said of appearing on the ITV reality show. \u201cMy acne was bad then and I thought viewers would be going, \u2018Oh my God, look at her skin.\u2019\u201d Although acne is most common in adolescence, around five per cent of women and one per cent of men experience the skin condition over the age of 25, according to the NHS. Barry said, despite her fears about I\u2019m a Celeb viewers judging her looks, people actually came up and thanked her for normalising the condition after she left the programme. \u201cAfterwards mums would come up and thank me for normalising acne for their teenage daughters. I do love mums,\u201d the social media star, who now has over 1.3million followers online,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}