Rise of the Kim K clones: 10 celebrities who are Kardashian doppelgängers, from Huda Kattan and Sonia + Fyza, to Bling Empire’s Kim Lee and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah

Jan 9 , 2022

The Kim Kardashian doppelgänger club – can you spot the real one? Photos: @soniaxfyza, @kamiosman, @kimkardashian, @huda, @kimlee/Instagram

Bling Empire star Kim Lee has been called the ‘Asian Kim Kardashian’ and beauty influencer Huda Kattan the ‘Kim Kardashian of the Middle East’

In Dubai, plastic surgeons are flooded by requests to look more like the Skims founder, and New York make-up artist Thalia Almodovar splurged US$100,000 to get her look

Magic mirror in my hand, who has the most wanted face in all the land? Dr Jason Diamond, a celebrity plastic surgeon based in Beverly Hills, says he has the answer: Kim Kardashian. “Kim is far and away the most highly requested face – there is not even a close second,” he told WWD.

In fact, every month or so a new Kim twin comes to light in another corner of the globe from Europe to the Middle East, Asia to Australia. It seems for many of her fans, “keeping up” with this particular Kardashian isn’t enough – they actually need to be her. And then there are famous people from around the world, including beauty influencers working with cosmetic brands, who also just happen to look a lot like her, and use it to their advantage online. But just who is the Kimmiest?

1. Huda Kattan

Game recognises game: Huda Kattan was endorsed by doppelgänger Kim Kardashian early on in her beauty career. Photo: @huda/Instagram

With her gentle bone structure and full lips, Dubai-based influencer-turned-beauty mogul Huda Kattan is known as the “Kim Kardashian of the Middle East”.

Kardashian herself was responsible for boosting Kattan’s fame after declaring herself a fan of her Huda Beauty line’s first product – a set of false eyelashes – back in 2013. They became friends and Kattan also gave Kardashian’s KKW Beauty range a glowing endorsement when it was launched.

Kattan was open about the surgery work she’d had done in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, explaining that she’d had a nose job and fillers in her cheeks, face and lips.

2. Jen Shah

Jen Shah, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star. Photo: @therealjenshah/Instagram

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star – who is currently embroiled in a wire fraud and money laundering legal scandal – is what some believe Kardashian could look like in a few years’ time. Fans of the show also can’t stop talking about how much Shah sounds and behaves like Kardashian – all the way down to the little sign on her desk that reads “I literally can’t even”. And while Shah hasn’t outright admitted to having work done, before and after photos show that she’s certainly become more Kim-like in recent years.