Ashley Leechin has built a platform of 1.1 million followers — and despite the hate she gets online, she says she's just another stan. “I don’t look in the mirror and think ‘Holy cow, I look like Taylor.’ It’s just Ashley,’” she says.
Leechin has long been mistaken for the pop star. When she was 13, she says, a modeling agent stopped her on the street and said she looked like Taylor. Her hair was long and blonde at the time, as it was during, and though Leechin says she did not see the resemblance , the comparisons kept coming. When she became a registered nurse in 2019, she says that people would regularly confuse her for Swift. “I’d wear a mask and goggles and regular PPE,” she says. “And I’d still get it.
At first, Swifties seemed tickled by Leechin’s posts, particularly after Swift herself commented on one of Leechin’s videos, saying that her mother had remarked on her lookalike status. By all reasonable measures, Leechin’s brand is being a Taylor Swift impersonator, though she denies being able to effectively monetize this, saying she regularly turns down potentially lucrative lookalike gigs. “I can’t really say you make money off TikTok,” she says. “You really don’t. You make enough to buy a coffee.” When she has done Cameos or accepted impersonation gigs in the past, it has led to “personality issues,” she says.
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