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10 Women Who Should Replace Kim Kardashian

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Ten women spent small fortunes chasing one face and one figure — Kim Kardashian’s.

By the fall of 2016, Kim Kardashian’s silhouette had become its own industry. A wave of women across Instagram and YouTube were pouring cash — and in some cases going into serious debt — to replicate her hourglass waist, contoured cheekbones, and famous curves. TheThings’ video “10 Women Who Could Be The Next Kim Kardashian” rounds up the lookalikes chasing that resemblance, some through heavy surgical investment and others through what they insist is a lucky roll of the genetic dice.

• Claire Leeson, a 24-year-old from London, spent nearly £20,000 (over $30,000) on plastic surgery, teeth whitening, and rear padding to recreate Kim Kardashian’s look, a transformation she has tied to bullying she endured as a child.
• Several women in the lookalike scene have spent over $100,000 combined on breast augmentation, lip fillers, hair extensions, and fat transfers to chase the same hourglass proportions.
• The trend split into two camps: women paying tens of thousands of dollars for surgical transformation, and others who claim their resemblance to Kardashian is entirely natural.

The Price Tag of Looking Like Kim

Claire Leeson’s story became one of the most widely reported examples of the phenomenon. She told outlets that years of bullying pushed her toward cosmetic surgery, and by the time cameras caught up with her, she had racked up close to £20,000 in credit card debt chasing Kardashian’s proportions — everything from rear padding to teeth whitening. It’s the kind of price tag that turns a beauty obsession into a financial gamble, and Leeson wasn’t shy about admitting the debt piled up faster than she expected.

Other women featured in the roundup went further still, with combined spending north of $100,000 across breast augmentation, lip filler, hair extensions, and fat transfer procedures designed to sculpt the same curves Kardashian made a global standard. The appeal isn’t subtle: a body that reads as “Kardashian” on sight can translate directly into followers, brand deals, and a built-in audience without years of slow-building content.

Nearly £20,000 in surgery, teeth whitening, and padding — all to chase a look that started with childhood bullying.

Natural Doubles Versus Surgical Recreations

Not every woman in the video went under the knife. A handful of the featured influencers insist they were simply born with Kardashian’s bone structure and body type, riding a genetic coincidence into hundreds of thousands of followers rather than a surgeon’s office. That contrast — natural resemblance versus deliberate, expensive reconstruction — is really the engine of the whole video. It’s the same split that’s fueled entire lists of celebrity doppelgängers who look freakishly alike, where genetics alone can turn a stranger into an internet sensation overnight.

What ties both groups together is monetization. Whether the resemblance was earned in a cosmetic surgeon’s chair or handed to them at birth, these women turned visual similarity into a career strategy, stacking followers by leaning into comparisons that Kardashian herself never asked for but that clearly moved the algorithm.

An Influencer Subculture Built on One Face

What the video captures is less a single copycat story than an entire subculture. Kim Kardashian’s face and figure had become so recognizable by 2016 that recreating it — through surgery, filters, padding, or sheer luck — was a viable path to online fame in its own right. It’s a strange kind of tribute: an entire cottage industry built around one woman’s aesthetic, at a moment when Kardashian’s own family brand, chronicled endlessly in stories like Kim Kardashian’s confirmations about her own kids, was still the dominant reference point in pop culture.

Leeson’s case stands out precisely because she was candid about the cost — not just the money, but the emotional backstory of bullying that pushed her toward the surgeon’s table in the first place. That honesty is what separated her story from the dozens of other lookalikes chasing the same look without explaining why.

Whatever happens to the original, the lookalike economy she inspired doesn’t need her to keep going — it just needs the next woman willing to spend the money, or lucky enough not to have to.