French lady who looks like Rihanna says she’s struggling to find love as men only ‘fantasies’ about the singer

A French lady who looks like Rihanna is struggling to find a man as most men who came to her were ‘fantasizing’ about the singer.

Yna Sertalf, 23, who originates from Martinique in the West Indies, but lives in France, is said to have realised that she looked like the Barbadian singer after her uncle brought it to her attention she was just a teenager.

According to Yna, her mum once mistook a photo of Rihanna, 31, on a magazine cover as her when she saw it.

Yna said: ‘I’ve been single for about a year, but I would never put myself in a relationship with someone who sees me as ‘Rihanna’ and not ‘Yna’.

‘When I talk to someone and hear ‘Rihanna’ too many times [when we’re hanging out], I give up [on them] because I can’t determine if the person fantasizes about Rihanna or if they really want to know me. That’s why I’m single.

‘I have been mistaken for Rihanna quite a lot. This happens to me usually when I’m in tourist places.

‘I remember a woman saw me and was being shy. She assumed I spoke English and spoke to me to ask if she could take a picture, and I agreed. It wasn’t the first time.

‘But then she asked me, ‘Are you really Rihanna?’ with a face full of joy.

‘I felt like I was breaking her heart by telling her no, but I find it pretty funny to be in these situations.

‘My friends and family find it funny too. Once my mom received a magazine in her mailbox with Rihanna on the cover and she sent it to me, saying ‘I thought it was you.’

‘The funniest thing is when people talk about you thinking they’re being discrete. I always smile at them to show them that I heard. It’s embarrassing.

‘But when little kids scream at their parents, ‘It’s Rihanna’, it’s lovely. Sometimes even if we tell them I’m not her, they think we’re lying.

‘I always tell the truth straight away. Because I am fatter than her and I speak French people notice that I’m not her quickly enough.’