Woman spends fortune on looking like Kim Kardashian, says it 'ruined her life'

  • 07/11/2016
Kim Kardashian lookalike Claire Leeson (Instagram / claireleeson_xx)
Kim Kardashian lookalike Claire Leeson (Instagram / claireleeson_xx)

A UK woman who reportedly spent more than $30,000 to look like Kim Kardashian now says it's backfired, insisting she is "her own person".

Claire Leeson, a 27-year-old from Essex, says she decided to use surgery to look like the reality TV star after being likened to her in 2007.

She underwent a boob job as a teenager and wore butt pads in photo shoots and at events as a lookalike.

"I always had a resemblance to Kim and I thought I could capitalise on that by copying her look, but it's backfired and now I hate looking like her," says Leeson in comments printed by British tabloids .

"It's ruining my life, I'm just being ridiculed... I don't want to be anything like her anymore, the best thing I can do is be myself and break away from her... I was never, ever happy when I was trying to look like her."

The part-time receptionist maintains the only surgery she's had is the breast augmentation.

"I keep being stereotyped as a surgery freak who wants to be like [Kim Kardashian] but I want to be myself - it's not my fault... I'm happy being myself, I'm not one for changing myself to try and be someone else."

Leeson also claims that the real Kardashian set out to "destroy her life" and that she is taunted on Instagram by commenters who simply put the word "Kim" under her posts.

"I'm constantly being compared to someone else and no one takes me seriously," she says.

"It's ruining my reputation at a time when I'm trying to get out there and promote myself as a respectable actress."

Leeson says insecurity and low self-esteem caused her to start emulating the Kardashian look.

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