‘Fake Moss’ Denise Ohnona offers first-ever interview

‘Fake Moss’ Denise Ohnona has revealed she did not know who Kate Moss was when first advised as a youngster that she bore an uncanny resemblance to her.

The 43-year-old Moss lookalike spoke candidly about being in comparison with the 50-year-old supermodel in an interview this morning. 

It comes as Denise stormed the runway on the Marine Serre Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 present on Monday. 

While Kate was launched as a style famous person as a youngster, Denise has solely been modelling professionally for the previous six years after enduring a traumatic automobile collision on the age of 18 that left her with lasting scars.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4 this morning, Denise stated she did not contemplate herself stunning or a mannequin in her youthful years.

She stated: ‘I feel from the age of 14 was after I was first advised I regarded like Kate, however I did not actually assume a lot of it as a result of I did not know who Kate Moss was on the time.

‘We did not have Google. It wasn’t till afterward I came upon who she was and after I first noticed her I used to be like oh my gosh she’s beautiful I’m nothing like Kate.

‘I by no means thought of myself stunning or a mannequin or something like that.’ 

Denise grew up on Penny Lane in Liverpool, made well-known on account of The Beatles track of the identical title.

She grew up with three siblings, one sister and two brothers and had a ‘comfortable childhood’ together with her mom and stepfather. 

At the age of 18, Denise was concerned in a traumatic collision with a double-decker bus.

She stated: ‘My face took the brunt of it and smashed into the windscreen. The subsequent time my mum noticed me within the hospital my face was lower all open. It was actually traumatic. 

‘It took me a protracted very long time to recover from that in addition to the bodily scars, I used to be mentally traumatised and it did maintain me again for a few years.’ 

She not too long ago advised The Times how the physician who operated on her had not been skilled in cosmetic surgery and he or she endured the results of surplus collagen manufacturing and thick scars.

As she struggled with what she described as ‘a psychological breakdown’, her weight plunged to 5 and a half stone and he or she suffered abdomen ulcers.

She later spent a while residing in America, in Orange County, the place she labored in telecoms and acquired married in Las Vegas – however she and her husband divorced in 2011.

She has stated she gained weight after turning into depressed and shedding curiosity in going to the gymnasium – solely to change into impressed to get match once more by folks stating her resemblance to Kate Moss.

Denise has her personal Instagram account known as @iamnotkatemoss, with 67,400 followers, through which she replicates well-known catwalk appearances and adverts by Kate Moss.

Denise beforehand advised 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 style and gave up on the gymnasium.

‘I’d take care of the children day and night time and it was extra vital to run round after them than take care of myself. Then I began getting folks mistaking me for Kate Moss after I would go anyplace.

‘Being advised that I may appear like Kate Moss picked me again up and I began specializing in myself once more. I acquired again into the gymnasium and taking care of my look and the feedback began over again!’

Talking about abuse and trolling she receives on social media, Denise advised the BBC: ‘Most days I’m happy with it however you do get individuals who wish to dissect you, pull you aside, and make assumptions about you and I’ve acquired to say 99 % of individuals have been so beautiful and supporting, however there’s all the time that one % who exit their method to put you down.’

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 heavy black eye make-up whereas her trademark soiled blonde locks have been worn in unfastened waves so as to add to the indie ensemble.

Denise’s Instagram posts have included miming to the sound of Moss’s testimony at Johnny Depp’s court docket case battle with Amber Depp.

She has additionally been photographed within the window of a McDonald’s, enjoying 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 stated: ‘When I first began to get papped, I used to get very shy and felt like a fraud grew to become I’m a Fake Moss.

‘But then as time went on I began to get pleasure from 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 girls ever!

‘I get mistaken for her every day now – particularly when I’m out in central London – that is the place the paps have a tendency to search 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 way of life, to a glamorous “supermodel”.’