Barry was fired from the girl group Bardot after stealing money from Sophie Monk, but the reason for her departure was not revealed at the time. She first confirmed the circumstances around her firing in a 2006 appearance on the TV show Where Are They Now?. In a 2017 Woman’s Day interview, Barry stated she was paid $1000 to leave the group and to stay silent on the matter at the time, leading to the widespread speculation over her firing, and blamed it on her youth and naivety. She was replaced by Tiffani Wood in the final line-up.
After leaving Australia, Barry appeared in independent films and in small roles on the television series Water Rats, General Hospital, Entourage and How I Met Your Mother. She also placed third in the Song of the Year songwriting contest and reached the quarter-finals in the Music Nation online music competition. Barry also appeared in two pictorials for FHM, one in the months after leaving Bardot and another in 2007.
In 2016, she voiced Ava in the Oculus Rift video game Edge of Nowhere.
