REBEL WITH A CAUSE

VOGUE AUSTRALIA: Congratulations on your new book Bella the Brave.

REBEL WILSON: “I’m so excited! A lot of the illustrations, by Annabel Tempest, are based on real photos from my childhood, so the characters all kind of look like my friends and family, which is awesome.”

VA: So the book is based on your childhood?

RW: “Yes, my sister, Liberty – ‘Stella’ in the book was always very extroverted and I was always very introverted. The story – of my mum dragging me to a performance class – really happened. She somehow knew, even though I was super shy, that I would love it and that it would give me confidence. The sad part is I wasn’t little like the character in the book, I was actually 13! I was petrified, but it