A Rihanna doppelganger has claimed she struggles to find a man as most are just ‘fantasizing’ about the star, and even her own mother confuses her with the singer.
Yna Sertalf, 23, who originates from Martinique in the West Indies, but lives in France, realised she looked like the Barbadian singer after her uncle pointed out her likeness to the beauty when she was just a teenager.
The resemblance is so striking her mum once mistook a photo of Rihanna, 31, on a magazine cover for her daughter.
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Martinique-born Yna Sertalf, 23, who now lives in France bears a striking resemblance to Rihanna. She said her mother even mistakes her for the 31-year-old singer, and claims the likeness has put a dampener on her love life
Yna Sertalf, 23 (left), has been described as Rihanna’s doppelganger by family, friends and potential boyfriends who notice the likeness between her and the singer (right)
Although the French lookalike is quick to correct fans when she is ‘noticed’, she has insisted looking like one of the world’s most beautiful women has its drawbacks.
Yna has been single for more than a year after being put off men who refuse to look beyond her looks, and she fears many just date her as she looks like Riri.
Luckily she finds the comparisons funny, and even jokes she is the ‘fatter’ Rihanna.
Yna said: ‘I’ve been single for about a year, but I would never put myself in a relationship with someone who sees me as ‘Rihanna’ and not ‘Yna’.
Yna has admitted she has been single for a year because she is fed up of people she is on a date with ‘fantasizing’ over her similarities with the singer
‘When I talk to someone and hear ‘Rihanna’ too many times [when we’re hanging out], I give up [on them] because I can’t determine if the person fantasizes about Rihanna or if they really want to know me. That’s why I’m single.
‘I have been mistaken for Rihanna quite a lot. This happens to me usually when I’m in tourist places.
‘I remember a woman saw me and was being shy. She assumed I spoke English and spoke to me to ask if she could take a picture, and I agreed. It wasn’t the first time.
Yna (left) insists she has been mistaken ‘quite a lot’ especially when she is in tourist places. The youngster sports the same brown/red long tresses as Rihanna (right) who donned the hairstyle at the Grammy awards in 2017
Rihanna poses for a picture in a bath, which resembles Rihanna’s music video to accompany We Found Love, which was released in 2011
Yna has admitted she feels bad when she is asked to have her photo taken when she is mistaken by members of the public and she tells them she is not the real singer
‘But then she asked me, ‘Are you really Rihanna?’ with a face full of joy.
‘I felt like I was breaking her heart by telling her no, but I find it pretty funny to be in these situations.
‘My friends and family find it funny too. Once my mom received a magazine in her mailbox with Rihanna on the cover and she sent it to me, saying ‘I thought it was you.’
‘The funniest thing is when people talk about you thinking they’re being discrete. I always smile at them to show them that I heard. It’s embarrassing.
‘But when little kids scream at their parents, ‘It’s Rihanna’, it’s lovely. Sometimes even if we tell them I’m not her, they think we’re lying.
‘I always tell the truth straight away. Because I am fatter than her and I speak French people notice that I’m not her quickly enough.’
Yna’s likeness with Riri, who sported a cropped do in the music video Umbrella, finds it hard to determine how genuine people’s intentions are when they meet her
Yna has claimed people think she is ‘lying’ when she tells people who believe she is Rihanna that she is not actually the 31 year old star.
Yna is often flooded with compliments from fellow social media users who draw the comparison between her and Rihanna on her online platforms, while tagging the celebrity too.
Although Yna has never directly compared herself to Rihanna on her social media, Yna’s 23,000 followers constantly leave comments comparing her and tagging the Work singer in nearly every photo.
One social media user, wwrote: ‘U look just like Rihanna omg.’
Another gushed: ‘She looks like Rihanna more than Rihanna looks like herself.’
While a third simply said: ‘Drop the album.’
Some social media users have gone as far as to joke with Yna about releasing an album and upcoming tracks
With her last album released three years ago, it’s not the first time that fans have demanded new Rihanna music from Yna.
Yna said: ‘A girl once quoted one of my tweets on Twitter saying, ‘Where is the album?’. And a lot of people retweeted it. I was amused but not surprised.
‘People call me Rihanna directly and don’t think to ask my name. Sometimes even if they ask they say ‘I’ll call you Riri’ and then treat you differently as if you are not like them.’
