The movie star doppelganger who fooled the world as a pretend Kate Moss
A star doppelganger who duped folks into pondering she was Kate Moss on the Paris Fashion Show is definitely a mannequin and mom from Ormskirk who has thanked ‘followers’ for his or her curiosity – however how tough is it to distinguish between the pair?
Supermodel Kate’s uncanny lookalike stormed the runway on the Marine Serre Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 present yesterday.
While many have been tricked into pondering it was the true Kate Moss, 50, it was really somebody who dubs herself ‘Fake Moss’ – 43-year-old Denise Ohnona, from Ormskirk in Lancashire.
While Kate was launched as a vogue celebrity as a teen, Denise has solely been modelling professionally for the previous six years – after enduring not solely a tough divorce but additionally a traumatic automobile collision that left her with lasting scars.
And whereas Kate has embraced a glittering transatlantic hard-partying life-style – earlier than launching her personal wellness model of merchandise – Denise says she is joyful to concentrate on being a single mum whereas having fun with the eye as a lookalike.
Kate Moss’ uncanny lookalike Denise Ohnona stormed the runway on the Marine Serre Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 present on Monday
Will the true Kate Moss please standup? Kate is pictured, left, on the Bottega Veneta Winter 24 present in Milan, Italy, final month, whereas Denise is seen, proper, at Paris Fashion Week
It appeared Marine Serre took inspiration from funds grocery store Aldi who pulled an analogous stunt, this time in Manchester, final December
Eco-brand Marine Serre appeared to take inspiration from funds grocery store Aldi who pulled an analogous stunt utilizing Denise simply weeks earlier.
When stars have been descending on Manchester for a Chanel present final December, ‘Kate’ was papped carrying a 65p bag from the grocery store – though it was later revealed to be Denise in disguise.
She has her personal Instagram account known as @iamnotkatemoss through which she replicates well-known catwalk appearances and adverts by the true factor – having fun with her moments within the highlight after struggling upsetting setbacks up to now.
She lately instructed the Times how she was thrown from a automobile pushed by a then-boyfriend not lengthy after leaving college, smashing her face by the windscreen.
She described how the physician who operated on her had not been educated in cosmetic surgery and he or she endured the consequences of surplus collagen manufacturing and thick scars.
Her weight plunged to 5 and a half stone and he or she suffered abdomen ulcers.
She spent a while residing in America, in Orange County, the place she labored in telecoms and bought married in Las Vegas – however she and her husband divorced in 2011.
She has mentioned she gained weight after changing into depressed and dropping curiosity in going to the health club – solely to develop into impressed to get match once more by folks mentioning her resemblance to Kate Moss.
The likeness between the duo was uncanny – with Kate’s daughter strolling earlier within the day on the Stella McCartney present
The actual Kate Moss, pictured right here, has additionally been at this yr’s Paris Fashion Week – right here attending the Saint Lauren Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 present final week
Denise shared photographs and movies from her fittings on Instagram, the place she goes by the deal with ‘I Am Not Kate Moss’
This week’s runway present choice by the eco model was captured on Denise’s social media
Denise, a full-time mum, beforehand instructed Mail Online:When I cut up up with my ex-husband eight years in the past, I went a bit ‘mumsy,’ I misplaced my sense of vogue and gave up on the health club.
‘I’d take care of the children day and evening and it was extra essential to run round after them than take care of myself. Then I began getting folks mistaking me for Kate Moss once I would go anyplace.
‘Being instructed that I might appear like Kate Moss picked me again up and I began specializing in myself once more. I bought again into the health club and taking care of my look and the feedback began once more!’
During her look in Paris on Monday, Denise harked again to Kate’s indie days in an outsized leather-based jacket emblazoned with the model’s crescent moon-shaped emblem with an identical purse.
She wore lashings of heavy black eye make-up whereas her trademark soiled blonde locks have been worn in free waves so as to add to the indie ensemble.
Denise’s Instagram posts together with miming to the sound of Moss’s testimony at Johnny Depp’s court docket case battle with Amber Depp.
She has been photographed within the window of a McDonald’s, taking part in on Kate’s well-known quote suggesting ‘Nothing tastes nearly as good as skinny feels’.
Despite her lookalike work, she describes herself as a full-time mum to daughters Elise, 13, and eight-year-old Anais.
Denise mentioned: ‘When I first began to get papped, I used to get very shy and felt like a fraud turned I’m a Fake Moss.
Denise’s likeness to Kate is repeatedly highlighted each in public and on social media
The actual Kate Moss is seen her modelling John Galliano in Paris in October 1993
Denise’s leather-based look stole Monday’s present as she headed down the runway
‘But then as time went on I began to take pleasure in it and now discover it very flattering – who would not wish to get mistaken for Kate Moss? She’s one of the vital extremely iconic ladies ever!
‘I get mistaken for her each day now – particularly when I’m out in central London – that is the place the paps have a tendency to seek out me.
‘However even members of the general public get us confused, and I get requested to pose for selfies in nightclubs and within the grocery store on a regular basis.
‘It’s wonderful that I’ve been capable of finding one thing that has remodeled me from my frumpy mum life-style, to a glamorous “supermodel”.’
