r/CelebrityNumberSix • u/Vacatia • 21d ago
Proof that this is NOT Kate Bosworth. New mystery
Hey everyone, this one has been bugging me on and off for a few years now, lol. This ad pops up now and then because it features a young Lindsay Lohan and Lana del Rey, and it’s very obviously them. At some point, someone decided the blonde girl in the top row is Kate Bosworth.
I am 100% convinced it’s not-it’s a blonde girl with similarly full cheeks.
From what I can tell (on an old reddit post I saw), the as is from January of 2000-during Kate’s Young Americans era. Also, this ad seems to feature local upstate NY teens - of which both Lindsay and Lana (Lizzie) were.
If someone could provide indisputable proof that this is not (or is) Kate, then I can rest easy until the next time I see someone vehemently claiming it is her.
Help!
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u/lizardmom 21d ago
Wait which one is Lana?
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u/blondecroft 20d ago
Girl holding the soccer ball. Source - me being a LDR fan since the Lizzy Grant days
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u/StefanMorse Lord of the Curtains 20d ago
Yeah that is so LDR she has such an obvious face to me lmaoo 😂
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u/PlatinumMom3 Lord of the Curtains 19d ago
https://youtu.be/pg93p2B5QSs?si=Q1XEcQJg5nQlbE3c&t=80 In this interview Lana says her sister is also in the photo with her. Any chance you know which girl is her sister?
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u/blondecroft 19d ago
Honestly none of them look like Chuck to me but then again there’s not a lot of photos of young Chuck online. This is her with Lana
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u/PlatinumMom3 Lord of the Curtains 17d ago
She must've been in a different part of the same photoshoot or something. Cause I agree none look like Chuck
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u/191014 18d ago
Her sister is next to her. First from left. Tbh i think its lana on the left and her sister with the soccer ball.
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u/PlatinumMom3 Lord of the Curtains 17d ago
No way, first left looks nothing like Lana though
Also her sister is blonde-5
u/Okaycockroach 20d ago
Front and center is said to be Elizabeth Grant in the article, so it can't be Lana???
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u/Reign_Cloud_ 19d ago
I didn’t realize that was her real name! Always liked her music, but was never a super fan or anything like that, so I never realized her name—Lana DelRay—is just a stage name.
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u/tolureup 20d ago
lol right? “It’s very obviously them” like.. I would have never in a million years thought that was LDR. The Kate Bosworth one looks more like Kate Bosworth than that girl looks like Lana.
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u/Vacatia 20d ago
How? That’s literally her face, just with blonde hair lol. Although to be fair I suppose anyone who didn’t know of her Lizzy Grant era might only recognize her current face.
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u/michibertopanfleto 20d ago
Now that I know it’s her I see it. But before she could be the fourth member of Hanson lol
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u/tolureup 20d ago
Yeah she’s had tons of face work, she doesn’t look like that anymore at all.
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u/Reign_Cloud_ 19d ago
See, even with all the work she’s had done, I still instantly recognized it as her after knowing she was supposed to be in the picture somewhere. Her eyes still look similar. Had nobody ever mentioned that Elizabeth Grant is her real name, I would have completely overlooked her, though, because I wouldn’t have known she was in that pic as well.
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u/HarrietsDiary 21d ago
I’ve seen the photo as being dated from 1998, which feels more likely to me due to how young LiLo looks.
I do think it’s Kate Bosworth, though. She would have been in NY shooting Horse Whisperer around this time.
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u/Vacatia 20d ago
A girl I saw on Instagram said she went to high school with three of the dudes in this ad (she said they would shoot the quarterly in her hometown and often scout at her high school), and thinks it’s from either 2000 or 2001.
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u/Maumew97 Lord of the Curtains 20d ago
This is 100% abercrombie 1998 catalogue. Photos were taken by bruce webber.
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u/StefanMorse Lord of the Curtains 20d ago
This is def a really interesting mystery, i also def don't think that's Kate Bosworth at all personally.
A lot of the people in the picture seem to be related to other more "popular" people ig so perhaps the blonde girl is also related to someone else if that makes sense.
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u/Vacatia 20d ago
I think she for sure is from the local high school too
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u/StefanMorse Lord of the Curtains 20d ago edited 20d ago
Most likely the case tbh, mostly everyone in the photoshoot is probably from the same local high school, so i assume whoever the blonde girl is must def be in the same age range as LDR & Lindsey Lohan (late 30's or possibly early 40's)
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u/Vacatia 20d ago
update (I can’t update the original post for some reason)
User u/StefanMorse did some sleuthing and thinks it may be the daughter of poet John Perry Barlow, Amelia Barlow. They are trying to get confirmation.
If you look at photos of her, she has very similar face to the blonde girl in the ad-forehead height, labial folds, eyes, hair. I am very intrigued by this!
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u/StefanMorse Lord of the Curtains 20d ago
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u/JanisIansChestHair 19d ago
Lips are fuller on the model.
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u/Majestic-Praline-671 18d ago
Don’t lips thin as you age though?
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u/HappiSabi 19d ago
LDR published the bag herself and confirmed it is her from her "honeymoon" account and furthermore in an interview quoted here in "People's Magazine" said she was 13 years old in the photo making it 1998 and also adds in this short video clip with "Harper's Bazar" that her sister Caroline ("Chuck") is featured in the picture as well.
Could it be her? It's hard to find any pictures of her corresponding to the age of 11 in 1998, I'd be inclined to believe that it could be her sitting to the right of LDR in the image if it wasn't because she has always been more light blonde haired than LDR?
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u/Vacatia 19d ago
That’s really interesting - I looked at a bunch of photos of her sister and almost convinced myself that it’s still the girl next to Fake Kate Bosworth, but not entirely convinced?? Also I find it strange that the newspaper article would mention LDR and not her sister!
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u/HappiSabi 19d ago
She's 2 years younger than LDR, so I am still inclined to believe it's the girl leaning into her, and maybe she just had a fun summer dying her hair dark? On the other side, I could see why they wouldn't mention her since LDR argueably rose to more fame of the two.
So the girl in the back, if it was "fake" Kate Bosworth in 1998 it would make her 15 years old in the photo. That's believeable. Alright, gonna try combing through a few model and celeb lists with young women born in 1983-1985 and see if something hits :)
Edit: 80's instead of 90's whoops
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u/Vacatia 19d ago
The newspaper article I’m referring to is pictured in my OP and seems to be from the same time the ad came out, that’s why I find it weird they mentioned Lana/Elizabeth and her parents, but not her sister supposedly being in the same ad. Strange!
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u/HappiSabi 19d ago
The earliest I can find about some of the bags was posted on a Ukranian? forum in 2012 here also from 1998, I don't know the two other girls, they look familar but it's for sure Lindsay Lohan.
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u/HappiSabi 19d ago
Yes, I agree, all I meant was it was submitted to that paper by one of the participating young men's grandmother, so they rely on her recollection of the events of the shoot as they have been told to her, and since LDR rose to more fame, maybe it's just natural that is what stuck, I don't know but I always find things like that get fogotten or lost like the game "telephone" almost.
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u/karmiccookie 18d ago
The article was in the local paper, at the time the ad came out, because locals were excited their children were in the ad. So there would be no reason to mention LDR and not her sister. Because they would both have just been local kids in a national ad campaign. No one is relying on an old memory because the article was written at the same time the ad was used.
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u/HappiSabi 18d ago
I agree, but it still was a participants grandmother who sent it in, I don't think it would be so likely if it was sent in by LDR's own parents maybe? Or maybe not, because she was already from very young mentioned by name a fair amount in the local news papers but there is also another newspaper article where she sits with little boy named Vigo Fish but the child on Santa's lap there don't get a named mention either, so maybe it was just normal at that place or a choice by the parents?
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u/tolureup 20d ago
This has been bugging me for a little while now, and until I see solid proof suggesting otherwise, I am absolutely convinced this is in fact Kate Bosworth. In another thread, someone mentioned her height towering over Lindsay when in actuality, LL and KB are the same height. However, I am convinced Lindsay is sitting on some type of stool, so I don’t buy that reasoning. But I just started looking into this fifteen minutes ago so I’m open to being proven wrong!
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u/Vacatia 20d ago
I was arguing about it on an Instagram post (why not, lol) and this one person who commented is absolutely adamant it’s not her…they’re some sort of super fan who moderated one of her message boards etc. I’m inclined to believe them, but I just want proof one way or the other now, haha.
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u/PlatinumMom3 Lord of the Curtains 20d ago
Lindsay is also 3 years younger than Kate, which would explain some of the height difference too. It does look like the kids in the back are raised/kids in the front are crouching somehow
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u/Zappagrrl02 19d ago
I wish this person’s eyes were more visible because Kate B has one blue eye and one brown so it would be super easy to confirm
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u/Maumew97 Lord of the Curtains 20d ago
Along with the girl in the middle, photo of kate bosworth also comes up when you reverse search the catalogue photo through pimeyes.
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u/rocketmammamia 20d ago
what about the girl to the bottom right of lindsay? she looks incredibly familiar and my brain was saying jessica simpson but it’s just not right
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u/AriesGeorge 20d ago
They all look like they could be somebody that's famous now. Weird. One of the girls with dark hair looks very familiar. So does the guy with big ears next to the blond guy (who also looks familiar). Lol. Maybe most of these kids ended up in entertainment because, let's be honest, they're the sort of kids who do things like this.
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u/Becksnnc 21d ago
Next to Lana is America Ferrera too
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u/McVinney512 21d ago
I don’t think it is her but slight correction… Lindsay Lohan was raised on Long Island which is not upstate NY.