Blackpink’s Lisa has a lookalike: 17-year-old Thai fried food seller thrust into limelight
- Secondary school student from central Thailand becomes online sensation thanks to her remarkable resemblance to K-pop star
A teenage fried chicken seller at a market in Thailand has been propelled into “stardom” because of her remarkable resemblance to K-pop rapper and dancer from the group Blackpink.
Kuilthida, 17, who is known as Yeehwa, is a fifth-year secondary school student at Taphanhin School in Thailand’s Phichit province, about 300 kilometres north of the capital Bangkok.
During school breaks, she visits her 36-year-old mother Benyapa, known as Gig, and helps with her fried chicken stall at a market in Samut Prakan, south of Bangkok.
People noticed that she looks remarkably like the Blackpink star Lalisa “Lisa” Manobal, 27, who is also from Thailand and posted her photos online making her an internet sensation.
The real Lisa has been thrust back into the public spotlight following the recent release of her new single, Rockstar, the first with her newly founded company LLOUD, on June 27.
The accompanying music video ranked number 3 on YouTube’s trending for music list, amassing 66 million views in just five days. Five versions of the song all appear in the top 20 on the American iTunes chart within hours of the release, according to Forbes.
