Seeing double! Model launches successful career after being mistaken for Angelina Jolie (but can't see the resemblance herself)
- Victoria Furnari, 24, from Argentina, is a dead ringer for the US actress
- She is using resemblance to launch a glamorous modelling career
- Victoria, who lives in New York, doesn't think she looks much like her
With her pouting red lips and smouldering eyes, there are worse people in the world to be compared to than Angelina Jolie.
And one woman is reaping the rewards after talent-spotters noticed she was a dead ringer for the A-list actress.
Argentine
model Victoria Furnari, 24, who now lives in New York, says she is
always getting mistaken for the American superstar – although she can’t
see the resemblance herself.
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Talent spotters noticed stunning model Victoria is a dead ringer for actress Angelina Jolie
Victoria Furnari, 24, has modelled for TRESemme, Balmain, Playboy, Coca Cola, Avon, L'Oreal and Calvin Klein
Victoria is now using her lookalike credentials to launch a glamorous modelling career.
She said: ‘I always have comments from people who I work with, makeup artists, stylists and so on saying how much we are alike.
‘I
did pictures for a magazine in France recently, playing the character
of Angelina, I thought the pics were brilliant but to be honest I didn't
think I look much like her.’
Lookalike: Victoria says she is always being compared to Angelina Jolie, right, pictured with husband Brad Pitt
Victoria now lives in the States with model Tomas Guarrachino who starred in a recent Estee Lauder campaign
But
others do not agree with Victoria. The fashion website FashionTV has
also commented on her amazing resemblance to the American actress.
But the model is just taking her moment in the spotlight in her stride and is amused but not fazed by the comparisons.
She said: ‘I do not put myself limits in my career. I feel able to do anything I have in my mind.
‘I
think the best thing that can happen is being known all over the world
for what you do, for what makes you happy and step by step I am
achieving that.’
The model 'played' the character of Angelina in a recent shoot but 'didn't think she looks look much like her'
The fashion website FashionTV has also commented on her amazing resemblance to the American actress
Victoria is currently the star of the new campaign Hello California for the brand Las Oreiro.
She
has also been the face of other major brands such as TRESemme and
modelled for Balmain, Paris and shot commercials for Playboy, Coca Cola,
Cereal Mix, Avon, L'Oreal, O'lays, Axe, Calvin Klein and Make Up For
Ever.
She lives in the States with model Tomas Guarrachino who starred in the recent Estee Lauder campaign.
She
started her modelling career at age 15 thanks to the stylist Miguel
Angel Alessi and then she was taken on by IMG Models Milano and soon
started to become famous.
