She has one of the most recognisable faces in the world, so when you look like Kate Middleton you’re bound to get people coming up to you in the street doing a double-take. This is what life is like for a mum from Staffordshire who bears a striking resemblance to the Princess of Wales.
Even when she isn’t dressed up as the princess, Heidi Agan, originally from Cheslyn Hay, still gets strangers stopping her. The mum says that she’s now working as a lookalike across the country after work dried up during the pandemic, StokeonTrent Live reports.
She said: "The pandemic really stopped everything for a long time. The entertainment industry took a really hard knock and it was hard for it to rebuild.
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"The Queen's death was awful - my kids said they thought she'd live forever, I think we all thought that. Nobody expected it.
"Usually what we do follows what they do, so the busier they are the busier we are. I am sure as Prince and Princess of Wales they are going to be busier and we haven't seen what they will focus on yet. Charles was very much into agriculture, we don't know what William will do.
"Catherine is still taking the mental health route which is fab and she's trying to carve out her route differently to Diana.
"I'm up and down the country at the moment. In the build up to Christmas it's helping people advertise for Christmas which is good as the past few Christmases have been quiet.
"I think we're happy as a country to be out of the pandemic, we are entering another difficult time, but as Brits we love to make fun of ourselves and have fun and that's what we bring to an event - and the Royal Family isn't going away."
As well as strangers in the street thinking she is the Princess of Wales, Heidi is becoming recognised locally as her lookalike too, reports BirminghamLive. She said: "I was in Tesco the other day and it's nice because you know people haven't forgotten, a worker said 'are you that girl who does Kate', and it's lovely when that happens.
"I went to London recently and this guy was staring at me and his little girl said: 'Why are you looking' and he said: 'I know that girl from somewhere'. I get a quick double-take normally and you can see their thought process.
"I don't mind it, I would never want to be her, under that level of scrutiny and pressure, so the little double-takes are enough."
Heidi previously revealed the dark side to becoming a lookalike and said she has received death threats.
She said: "It's the world of social media, there's always people who say 'why are you trying to be somebody else', when it first happened I was so taken aback by the amount of hate that comes from people but now I've learned that that's the way it is. Everybody has an opinion.
"If my children see something negative I can talk to them about my personal experience and it's important to education your children to help them."
She also spoke of the 'Kate effect', how the Princess of Wales has become a style icon and said she had to be on top of her latest outfits for her appearances and try to get them before they sold out. She recently asked her son to buy her a high street dress Kate had been pictured in.
Heidi added: "My son did go to Mango for me to get the dress that she wore last week. I went online as soon as I saw it but it had sold out and I knew he was in Birmingham shopping and I said please please please go to Mango and he did.
"It takes a few hours [to get ready as the Princess of Wales], I wish I could fall out of bed with amazing hair like she has. Luckily she doesn't stray too far from what we're used to seeing. It's big news when she gets a fringe. That was the worst thing, I hope she regrets it too and doesn't get it cut in again."
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