The story was originally planned as a series, but when the producers and the director saw the rushes, they realized it would work really well as a feature film.
In the 2016 film "Die Beautiful," Barbs was played by Christian Bables, who won a Best Supporting Actor award for the role. Shortly before filming started on "Born Beautiful," Christian had to back out and the role was offered to Martin Del Rosario, who was a Best Supporting Actor winner as well for his previous film "Dagitab"
Martin Del Rosario had to lose weight and purposely stopped going to the gym so he can transform himself into Barbs.
Spin-off of the 2016 movie, Die Beautiful.