Claire Leeson splashed-out £18,000 to look like the reality star - but she says now she is constantly ridiculed for her appearance.
The 27-year-old is "sick and tired" of being compared to Kim and is desperate to break away from the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star.
Claire started doing her hair and make-up like Kim after friends pointed out the resemblance when the hit show first aired in 2007. That year, aged 18, she had a boob job and later worked as a look-a-like wearing butt pads in shoots.
Claire said:
"I'm sick and tired of being compared to Kim Kardashian, I am my own person.""I always had a resemblance to Kim and I thought I could capitalise on that by copying her look, but it's backfired and now I hate looking like her," she continued. "It's ruining my life, I'm just being ridiculed. People don't understand that it's not a compliment for me to be compared to Kim, it really upsets me. "I feel like a bit of an idiot and I regret saying I wanted to be like her.
"I am my own person and I wish I hadn't have gone along with it at the time."
"I only started watching the show a couple of seasons in after people said I look like Kim Kardashian. "I liked her make-up and the clothes she wore so I took it as a compliment. "She's really pretty and everyone was trying to look like her. "I was so low and insecure at the time, I felt like I should take it [the publicity] because it was there. "It was an urge for attention, I can't tell you how low I was."I didn't believe I was anything that great, so I thought if I can look like her, that will make me pretty."
Claire began working as a look-a-like and appeared on TV, but regrets being linked to claims she spent thousands of pounds on surgery trying to look like the celeb."I keep being stereotyped as a surgery freak who wants to be like her but I want to be myself - it's not my fault."
The part-time receptionist defended herself and explained she hadn't had any facial work done, only to be criticised even more. She added: "All I'm trying to do is defend myself, and people are attacking me for saying I haven't had anything done. "I can't win, people just think I'm rubbing it in by saying I'm natural but I'm not.
"I'm happy being myself, I'm not one for changing myself to try and be someone else."I just think if you go down that road you'll end up miserable later in life because you've gone against your own self-worth." The brunette beauty says no one takes her seriously anymore and her Instagram is plagued by trolls who taunt her.
She said:
"People are always comparing me to her and they will just comment on my photo and say 'Kim'."
They don't realise how much this upsets me, I just want to tell people I'm me, I'm not her. "I'm constantly being compared to someone else and no one takes me seriously.
"It's ruining my reputation at a time when I'm trying to get out there and promote myself as a respectable actress. People are just stereotyping me." "Sometimes I really wish I didn't look like her. I don't want to be anything like her anymore, the best thing I can do is be myself and break away from her. "I was never, ever happy when I was trying to look like her.
"The best thing that has come out of this whole thing is that I've discovered who I really am."
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