Kate Moss doppelganger Denise Ohnona says she by no means thought of herself to be stunning and has spent years getting over the trauma of a automobile crash which left her with dangerous facial scarring.
The 43-year-old mother-of-two lately wowed at Paris Style Week when she walked the Marine Serre Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 present on Monday.
Denise Ohnona on the Marine Serre catwalk. Pic: AP
Sporting skinny black leather-based trousers, a crisp white shirt and a slouchy black leather-based jacket, she left audiences scrabbling for his or her cellphones, within the perception it was Moss making an look on the catwalk.
Described on her Instagram account – @iamnotkatemoss – as “the world’s number-one Kate Moss lookalike,” her footage present her replicating well-known catwalk appearances and adverts by the true Kate Moss.
The account has over 70,000 followers, together with a number of Kate Moss fan accounts, however not the well-known mannequin herself.
An identical stunt at Chanel’s Manchester takeover final yr noticed Ohnona pictured consuming a McDonald’s, a nod to Moss’s a lot publicised 2009 remark, “Nothing tastes pretty much as good as skinny feels”.
Ohnona advised BBC Radio 4’s At this time programme a nasty automobile crash she was concerned in when she was simply 18 had left her with facial scars, in addition to psychological trauma.
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 stated she first turned conscious of her likeness to the supermodel, who was on the top of her fame within the Nineteen Nineties, when she was aged round 14.
However she added she hadn’t been that bothered concerning the comparability as she did not know who Kate Moss was on the time.
She defined: “We did not have Google. It wasn’t till afterward I discovered who she was and once I first noticed her, I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh she’s attractive I’m nothing like Kate’.
She went on: “I by no means thought of myself stunning or a mannequin or something like that.”
Ohnona grew up in Liverpool, on Penny Lane – a avenue made well-known by the Beatles.
Whereas she was working within the garments store Subsequent on the time of her accident, her facial scarring led her to hunt a non-customer going through function after she had recovered, and he or she later labored in an administrative function on the Liverpool docks.
Ohnona, who’s a full-time mum to daughters Elise, 13, and eight-year-old Anais, has solely been modelling professionally for six years.
In the meantime, Moss was found by Storm modelling company aged simply 14 at New York’s JFK airport.
She went on to turn into one of the crucial profitable supermodels of all time, relationship stars together with actor Johnny Depp and musician Pete Doherty, and is reported to be price round £100m in accordance with Forbes journal.
