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Ms Bullen's pictures were recreated right down to details such as venue and outfit. (Courtesy of Lauren Bullen via The Straits Times/File)
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ife imitates art imitates life, in a bizarre case of photographic imitation among the well-heeled, well-traveled social media celebrity set.
Australian blogger Lauren Bullen's Instagram account - under the handle @gypsea_lust - is dotted with decadent scenes of breakfast or sunbathing in farflung locales such as Greece, Spain and Morocco.
Ms Bullen, 23, wrote in a blog post dated Nov 11 that another woman had been deliberately recreating her online photos.
The second woman, going by the name Diana Alexa, had visited the exact same places that Ms Bullen had, and took photos in similar outfits and poses. Some of Ms Alexa's pictures, which Ms Bullen shared on her blog, were dated in September and October.
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Ms Bullen subsequently wrote that she had been in contact with Ms Alexa, who has since removed the photographs.
Ms Bullen also took down her original blog post criticizing the slew of replica photos.
"She just got inspired and liked the style of my work," Ms Bullen wrote, adding that she did not wish to speak to the media about the incident.
Ms Bullen, who has more than 700,000 followers on Instagram, denied that it had been a publicity stunt.
This article appeared on The Straits Times newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
