The world’s most well-known Marilyn Monroe impersonator opened up about her most bonkers experiences from trying just like the Hollywood display screen legend.
Suzie Kennedy has embodied the star for the previous 27 years and has featured in Blade Runner 2049, Britain’s Got Talent and The Chase.
She known as such alternatives an honour and described having one of many world’s most recognisable faces as a “freak of genetics”. She additionally jokingly thanked her mother and father for having intercourse throughout an unique interview with the Daily Star.
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Ahead of the seventieth yr anniversary of Marilyn famously posing bare to launch Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Magazine in 1953, Suzie spoke about her wildest moments as her double.
Starting sturdy, she mentioned: “I did have one guy that came up to me in a bar and it was quite frightening because I thought he was really sweet and then he started telling me that I was his mother and that he was born from JFK and Marilyn but he was deadly serious.
“That is probably the weirdest because he was totally convinced. It was in Germany and I was just really confused. I kind of felt sorry for him because he was like ‘she’s definitely my mum and JFK is my dad and they put me up for adoption so you are my mother’.
“But I have had some crazy experiences – because Marilyn is dead you are like the next best thing so it can be a little bit crazy.”
Suzie, 46, was born in America however grew up in London and her comedy and performing profession was launched from an opportunity encounter with a stranger.
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She didn’t think about herself stunning however glamorous jobs offered themselves unexpectedly after she was as soon as noticed on the street by somebody who satisfied her to hitch an company as a result of they thought she was a doppelganger for Marilyn.
And as for a number of the oddest requests she now receives from followers all these years later, she mentioned: “I was asked to do a porno with JFK and that was a definite no…
“And with Cameos I have to reject a lot of them because one man asked me could I put lipstick on my lips for three minutes exactly and then lick them and I thought ‘no I am alright for that thank you’.
“I have my own reasons for not doing things like that but also I am representing someone else so that is really important to me as well, so both of those things come in to not disrespecting that.”
But what about her relationship with males in actual life? This is the place issues get extra difficult for Suzie, who has been single by alternative for the previous 18 months.
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She mentioned: “I have had stalkers and I feel like looking like Marilyn, men want to conquer you and that is the kind of thing that Marilyn had. They didn’t see Marilyn Monroe, they just saw this image and they thought ‘I want that, I have to have that’.
“I think that is the same when you look like her because men have said they are dating Marilyn Monroe but I am not Marilyn Monroe.
“It is like association, like if I can go out with Suzie then in a way I am going out with Marilyn Monroe. It is a bit like having a Chanel bag where it is not about that bag it is about the brand.
“I think I have learnt a lesson from that because I played up to that sometimes and when you are younger you are like ‘well he is hot, he will go out with me because I look like Marilyn’ but it is just a game.
“When you are younger it is affirmation and you don’t really care why people are buying you a drink or going out with you. I don’t think I have ever dated anyone that has not said to their friends that they are dating Marilyn.”
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But regardless of being in comparison with Marilyn, who died simply over 60 years in the past aged 36, Suzie may be very a lot her personal individual with a robust story to inform.
She is a most cancers and home abuse survivor who regardless of well being points, not too long ago ran a half-marathon to make use of her social media platform to lift consciousness for points vital to her.
Reflecting on swapping heels for trainers, she mentioned: “It is something really close to my heart because I experienced domestic violence growing up and abuse.
“I just wanted to give something back because a lot of women have not had my opportunity to have an escape route out. My job gave me an escape and my passion is now to try and use Marilyn not just for my own need but to try and use that to bring attention, especially to a charity like Woman’s Trust.”
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She credit Marilyn Monroe for serving to her to flourish regardless of previous traumas and he or she is now in her closing yr of a level the place she is coaching to be a counsellor.
And as for a way she feels about persevering with Marilyn’s legacy, she mentioned: “I am getting on now so I am hoping someone else will take the reins over but people still keep calling me and I am getting asked to do all these films so while the phone keeps ringing I am getting away with it.”
Laughing, she added: “But I don’t want to turn up and people say ‘oh is that Marilyn Monroe’s mother’ so once that happens I will bow out gracefully.”
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