I was shocked to discover a vintage painting online that looks just like me — I had to buy it – NY Post

Jenny Smith was shocked to find her doppelgänger online — in a painting, that is. The mom-of-four was blown away by the discovery of a painted portrait that bared an uncanny resemblance to her curly red locks and “large” forehead, and she became determined to get her hands on the mysterious artwork. “Somebody posted the painting in a Facebook group in June, and a friend sent it to my sister and said, ‘This looks just like Jenny,’” Smith, 43, told Kennedy News, explaining that her sister had forwarded the link of the dead-ringer to her. “I was instantly like, I’ve got to find this painting — I’ve got to have her. It’s not like some random portrait to me because it looks just like me,” she added. After desperately hunting the portrait down for months, phoning various antique shops and enlisting the help of social media, the Columbia, Mississippi native was heartbroken to discover that the painting was hundreds of miles away in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. After seeing a photo of the portrait online, Smith was hellbent on buying it for her home.Kennedy News/@mississippimemaw “I wanted the painting really bad, so I went to TikTok — I figured that
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