Barbara Norton de Matos recalled the beginning of her career and the striking phrase that “a lady of an agency” told her and that she left deep marks in the way she saw herself in the mirror. “I was told with this forehead and this height would go nowhere.”
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13/06/2026
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Barbara Norton de Matos, 46, decided to go back in time and return to the beginning of her career as a model.
Through a sharing made in her official Instagram account, the actress talked about the difficult times she went through when she heard harsh opinions about her image that led her to believe she could never get revenge in the world of show.
“ I found this composite from Central Models and I looked at it for a while. When I was 15, a lady from an agency told me, with all the sympathy of the world (I am being ironic ...), that with this forehead and this height I would not go anywhere ", he recalled, assuming that these words left marks in the way one looks in the mirror.
“ As you can imagine, for a 15-year-old who already had her complexes, those words left a mark. And not a few. For a long time, I believed them and the complexes that I had just got deeper. Life, however, had other plans”, he noted.
Barbara Norton de Matos then explained her professional career, which began on television. “I got on television and it was only after that that that an agency wanted to represent me. After all, the forehead was still the same. And the height too. These photographs were taken then.”
The actress was “twenty years old” at the time the photographs in question were taken. “[...] she was very nervous, full of insecurities and had no idea what a sexy pose was. Actually, I don’t think I know very well today.”
“ Today I look at these photographs with a huge affection. I don't see the flaws I saw then. I see a young woman full of dreams, trying to find her place, without imagining all that life still holds for her.
It's curious how a phrase said in a minute can accompany us for years. And how later we realized that many of the limitations we believed were never really ours. That's why I like these pictures so much. Not because they're perfect. But because they remind me of the way I went, the insecure girl I was and the woman I became. Life really takes many turns”, it ended.