Celeste Barber on $51m bushfire fundraiser: 'It broke my heart that it didn't fix everything' - ABC News

Celeste Barber on $51m bushfire fundraiser: 'It broke my heart that it didn't fix everything'.

Barber told 7.30 people's generosity was "unbelievable", and it broke her heart their money could not go to the people who needed it most.

It broke my heart that it didn't fix everything.

"I didn't want to do any press.

I didn't really want to be the face of any of it, because who cares about me.

"I remember looking at these [filtered] images, thinking, 'This isn't good.

"I wanted to show people that I am funny, and there was a platform there that would get me hopefully international eyes as well.

"I wanted that two, that point two, because I thought then I've really hit a million," she said.

But now she has "made it", Barber says she is sent all kinds of weird things that people want her to promote, including vibrators. .

"I don't know what people think I am about, but here we are.

"It's because of Instagram, really, [that people say things] like, 'Where's this woman come from?'" she said. .

You just go, 'Oh, good to know, I won't do that next time,' and you keep moving."

"I didn't realise how much I missed it," she said. 

"There's that personal thing of how amazing you feel after having a really good belly laugh

Then I think it's a good equaliser," she said

That laughter, it's good to use that tool to help people laugh."