00:00 Ever since elementary school,
00:01 people have said that I look like Zendaya.
00:03 I have over 600,000 followers on TikTok.
00:06 I started out doing just random trends,
00:10 and I got 2.1 million likes
00:12 just for standing next to a cardboard cutout.
00:15 I was like, "Oh, I'm blowing up."
00:18 I get some really mean comments.
00:20 An uglier Zendaya, Walmart Zendaya, Dollar Tree Zendaya.
00:25 A makeup artist is gonna be coming
00:28 and doing a Zendaya-inspired makeover.
00:31 - Oh my gosh.
00:35 - Hey, I'm Zendaya.
00:37 Just kidding.
00:37 My name's Whitney Brown.
00:40 I'm 19 years old.
00:42 I went viral for being Zendaya's doppelganger.
00:45 Ever since elementary school,
00:46 people have said that I look like Zendaya.
00:49 I never thought that I looked like Zendaya,
00:51 but sometimes I can see it in the eyes.
00:55 I have to force myself to see it.
00:58 I think she's pretty,
01:00 but I always think that I'm the lesser-than version of her.
01:04 I grew up in a small town in Indiana.
01:07 I always had friends,
01:09 but I never felt like people liked me.
01:11 I was definitely a weird kid.
01:14 People said I had poofy hair a lot.
01:17 I like being a Zendaya lookalike.
01:19 I like the attention from it,
01:21 but there's definitely a lot of downsides,
01:25 like the bullying.
01:27 Sometimes it's just too much attention.
01:29 People stare all the time.
01:31 I'm a very insecure person,
01:33 and I always forget about the lookalike thing,
01:36 so I'm always getting scared that they're judging me.
01:39 Now I try to keep up with Zendaya
01:42 just so that I can kind of play off of it
01:45 with my social media.
01:46 I started out doing just random trends
01:50 or, like, little events on TikTok
01:52 where I didn't think I was ever gonna blow up.
01:54 They just saw my face,
01:55 and they thought I looked like Zendaya,
01:57 so I got a bunch of comments about that.
02:00 I was like, "Oh, I'm blowing up."
02:03 Hey, guys.
02:04 I'm doing an interview and a makeover today
02:07 for "Hooked on the Look."
02:09 I'm really excited to look pretty.
02:11 I might post this later.
02:13 Excited for you all to see it.
02:15 I have over 600,000 followers on TikTok.
02:19 I mostly post just random filters
02:21 or whatever's trending.
02:23 And I got 2.1 million likes
02:25 just for standing next to a cardboard cutout.
02:29 If Tom and Zendaya had a daughter...
02:31 Okay, Zendaya, quit playing.
02:33 I know it's you.
02:34 I want to be your boyfriend.
02:36 I have a big, fat crush on you.
02:39 Can I just eat your face 'cause you're so pretty?
02:43 All these people that DM me,
02:45 like, everyone feels like an NPC to me.
02:48 Like, I just feel like these are all bots,
02:50 even though they're real.
02:52 I get some really mean comments.
02:55 It's always like an uglier Zendaya,
02:58 Walmart Zendaya, Dollar Tree Zendaya.
03:01 People will usually say, like,
03:04 that I'll never be her,
03:05 that she actually has talent,
03:07 and that I'm just doing nothing and clout chasing.
03:11 I'm not clout chasing,
03:13 but I'm not just gonna, like,
03:15 not take advantage of the fact
03:17 that everyone's giving me this attention for her face.
03:21 Sometimes I'll turn my head more to the side
03:26 just 'cause people will say
03:28 that our side profiles are more similar.
03:32 I have some fans that'll send me money sometimes.
03:35 The largest I ever got was, like, 1,000,
03:39 and this guy sent it to me 'cause I needed a new phone.
03:43 I love it.
03:44 It is my favorite part about all of it.
03:48 [laughs]
03:49 No, I can't say that.
03:51 Do you have an O.F.?
03:53 I do not.
03:55 I'm definitely not going to start an OnlyFans.
03:58 I think it would be so easy for me to make money on there.
04:03 That would be the very last resort for me.
04:06 I would really like to model,
04:08 like, be a big-time model.
04:11 In case there's ever a chance of me
04:14 actually becoming famous somehow.
04:17 I don't want that to be the reputation that follows me.
04:21 A makeup artist is gonna be coming
04:25 and doing a Zendaya-inspired makeover.
04:28 Hey, Whitney, how are you?
04:30 Hi, I'm good.
04:31 Good, oh, you're so beautiful.
04:33 Thank you.
04:34 Are you ready to get started?
04:35 Yeah, I'm really excited for the makeover.
04:38 I really wanna see how close I can look like her,
04:40 and I just like looking pretty.
04:44 You have a slit in your eyebrow,
04:45 but we can cover that up.
04:47 She has a hooded eye.
04:48 Sometimes a hooded eye can be a little more tricky
04:50 than your typical eyelid, but we can work with that.
04:54 This look that we're gonna do with her,
04:55 it can be an everyday look.
04:57 I will put a little more extra concealer
04:59 on her cheekbones right here,
05:00 just to get rid of the redness,
05:01 and then I'll put it back in,
05:02 but I want to naturally put it back in with the makeup.
05:05 I'm excited to see the end result.
05:08 I'm gonna look pretty.
05:10 There's not too much to it.
05:11 She's already got the look.
05:12 I'm just adding a little bedazzle.
05:15 I think you're all done.
05:19 This is beautiful.
05:20 Mission accomplished.
05:21 My boyfriend's name is Skylar.
05:25 We've been together for over a year.
05:27 So have you ever seen her all dressed up into the nines?
05:29 I took her out on a date once, really dressed up.
05:32 It's the only time.
05:33 I'm super excited.
05:34 Oh my gosh.
05:39 You look incredible.
05:41 We met at Pizza Hut.
05:43 It was like my first day working there.
05:46 A friend introduced us, and he said,
05:48 "Does she look like anyone?"
05:50 And he said that I looked like a childhood friend.
05:54 This is cute.
05:55 It's a cute fit.
05:57 Yeah.
05:58 No, I think she looks better.
06:03 That was definitely the first green flag,
06:06 'cause I knew right off the bat
06:07 that he didn't think that I looked like Zendaya.
06:10 The first time I met her, I was instantly interested.
06:12 Who wouldn't be?
06:13 I thought he was cute.
06:15 I was just trying to act cool around him, though.
06:17 She said she was crushing on me.
06:19 Yeah.
06:20 Trying to act cool.
06:21 And I was crushing on her, trying to act cool, too.
06:24 I think Skylar gets a little jealous,
06:26 especially from the men who send me money.
06:29 I'll use that money to get him gifts sometimes,
06:32 but he does think it's a little weird,
06:34 and I think he gets a little insecure sometimes.
06:36 Thinks I'm doing bad things, but I'm not.
06:39 Does anyone ever tell you that you look like Tom Holland?
06:43 Tom Finland, maybe.
06:44 Off-brand Tom Holland.
06:46 Sometimes Elon Musk, like a fatter version, I guess.
06:50 She wants to continue growing her TikTok
06:52 and one day get into modeling,
06:54 and I wanna get big on YouTube,
06:56 just be financially free and travel the globe.
07:00 Zendaya has never reached out to me,
07:02 and I feel like she's had to have seen some of my stuff,
07:05 but as far as I know, she hasn't.
07:07 I would love to meet Zendaya.
07:09 That would be so cool.
07:11 If I were to do anything too different with my looks,
07:16 like if I wanted to dye my hair
07:18 or get a tattoo or get a piercing,
07:20 I feel like people would kinda lose interest in me.
07:24 I want people to know that I'm just trying to get by.
07:28 I'm trying to do bigger things, but I don't really know how.
07:33 My goal is to eventually be known for just me.
07:37 I wanna game and post funny stuff,
07:41 and people like it for me
07:43 and not just constantly compare me to Zendaya.
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