Two Angelina Jolie in the world

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

By Deni Kirkova for MailOnline

Published: 09:57 GMT, 21 May 2015 | Updated: 12:01 GMT, 21 May 2015

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

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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.’

Victoria Furnari shows of her Angelina Jolie style look

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Lookalike: Victoria says she is always being compared to Angelina Jolie, right, pictured with husband Brad Pitt

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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.

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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.’

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The model 'played' the character of Angelina in a recent shoot but 'didn't think she looks look much like her'

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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.

This Woman Looks Exactly Like Angelina Jolie

Jeanette Batur

Jul 02,2015 1:51pm

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We've seen some really crazy celebrity doppelgangers, but this Angelina Jolie lookalike is off-the-charts awesome.

Veronika Black, 27, tells The Daily Mail that people started mistaking her for the actress after she started getting lip fillers in 2011. "It happened overnight," she tells them. "I was working as a shop assistant at the time, and I was just a regular girl on the tills, but suddenly people mistook me for Angelina Jolie. It was bizarre, but Angelina is absolutely gorgeous so I was obviously flattered too."

Yeah, we definitely wouldn't hate someone mistaking us for Angelina! Although, with the good comes the bad and Veronika admits that she's received some weird emails from fans who actually believe that she is the real Angelina.

Great dinner out after a stressful day @laresidencedubai

A photo posted by Official IG of Veronika Black (@veronikablack88) on Jun 15, 2015 at 11:19am PDT

Even when people know she's not the Oscar-winning actress, some men are still intimidated to approach her - except the "creeps" as she describes them. "Only creeps will try and chat me up, and they'll be really rude and aggressive when I say I'm not interested," she explained. "No normal, respectable guys are ever keen, but I'm too shy to approach men myself."

We can totally relate! One of the drawbacks of being single is finding that you are a full-on creep magnet. Don't worry, it's not you, it's them.

Getting ready to become a middle income country

Inam Ahmed

Becoming a lower middle income country is certainly something to cheer about. It makes us firmly believe that we will soon elevate to the status of middle income country. It makes us feel good. It gives us confidence. And it makes others turn around and glance at us with respect. We become a target for investment.
But it also cautions us about some pitfalls. It also cautions us to know the challenges and prepare ourselves to brace the crosswinds. It also alerts us about the so-called middle-income trap that may embrace a country when it elevates to middle income category.
As a middle income country gains in wages, as we have and will further in future, we face the challenge of remaining competitive with the cheap products of the low income countries. We must not forget Bangladesh had once snatched the jobs of countries like Korea, Thailand and Singapore when they geared up to the higher ground.
While we will face the possibility of not competing with low income countries, we will also not be able to compete with the high-tech products of developed countries.
So we have to consider upscaling our productivity by infusing it with better technology and also by training our workers. Slow transformation of our agricultural workforce into an industrial one will lead to unemployment and low wage as has happened in countries like India and Thailand, leading to increase in poverty. So we must focus on this job at hand before we soon reach the middle income category.
We are already suffering in productivity because of the sudden spurt in small and medium enterprises which because of their economy of scale cannot integrate modern technology. This factor needs to be resolved quickly.
Egypt and Nigeria are such cases which saw wage increases that adversely affected productivity. But then there is the bright case of South Korea which was one of the poorest countries in the 1960s with about $100 per capita income and soon became a middle income country with attention to   productivity through its policies and institutions.

The other challenge we will face is how to keep rising inequality in check and how to make basic services accessible to the poor. It will need proper policy, institutions and financing.
As countries open themselves up to trade in goods and capital, they also face risks of vulnerabilities to different global crises. We have seen how the South-east Asian countries were floored by the financial crisis of the 1990s. So we need to reform our financial sector as we integrate more and more with the global financial markets.
We need to have the proper institutions for industrial policy and trade. We need to think of relating export policies to growth. Here the biggest issue at stake is the zero duty access of our garments to the European Union not least because the EU is our largest export market for apparels.
We can still get GSP Plus facility but that would depend on fulfilling a number of stringent conditions on human rights, labour rights and environmental issues. Bangladesh already has poor records on all these counts and fulfilling them would need sincere effort on the government's part.
In the end, we can say that while we celebrate our achievement we also need to get ready for tackling the next level of tough challenges looming ahead.