Sunday, August 03, 2008

'But I Still Don't Like My Body'

She may be the only one who doesn't. Poor thing is suffering from low self-esteem, apparently.

Anyway, who is this young lady? Why, she's a famous body double, and if you ask me she looks better than any of the originals.
It's one of the big showbusiness secrets: when the stars show off their 'perfect' figures, many of the bodies we see really belong to someone else.

As a TV show prepares to tell all, Rachael 'The Body' Carr reveals the inside story of life as a body double...

Kylie Minogue sashays along the beach, her sarong billowing to reveal a bronzed, bikini-clad, perfect body. She stops and smiles, then a breeze blows away the flimsy cloth. She steps on to a raft before diving in to the sea. Seconds later, she walks back to the beach. She's dry, her hair perfectly coiffed.

To anyone but the most practised observer, Kylie is the sole star of this advert for H&M. Which is true, of course, but only up to a point. For it's actually my body that is filmed.

Forget plastic surgery and airbrushing, we celebrity body doubles are the big secret of the entertainment industry. Look hard enough and you'll find us everywhere - from pop videos and adverts to films and magazines.

For the past three years, I've been working as a celebrity body double and have seen parts of my body 'stolen' by some of the world's biggest female stars.

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