linkShe was primarily an editor, but also conducted interviews with people of unusual sexual tastes. "Those were good training for what I've done subsequently, going right into it and saying, But why do you think you are transsexual?' I think that's one of the reasons I'm not embarrassed ever nowadays. Sometimes, if I'm interviewing somebody like Eddie Izzard orGrayson Perry, I have to remember that I'm not doing it for Penthouse and there is something more to them besides the fact they are a ->-bleeped-<-."
After seven years with Penthouse, Barber left to have children. She missed journalism and joined the Sunday Express in the 1980s, then the Independent On Sunday when it launched in 1990. From there she spent time at the Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph before signing with The Observer, where she has become a star in her own right.
