--- description: Taylor Swift meets doppelganger Olivia Sturgiss at 1989 concert in Melbourne Australia title: Taylor Swift Met Her Doppelganger image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Taylor Swift Met Her Doppelganger  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Dec 14, 2015 4:37 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Dec 14, 2015 4:37 PM CUT Taylor Swift’s [squad](http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-talks-squad-australia-vogue "undefined") just got a little bigger. The pop star posed for a photo with her Australian doppelganger Friday night during a _1989_ concert in Melbourne. [_Daily Mail Australia_ reports](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3357041/Taylor-Swift-lookalike-teen-checkout-chick-finally-meets-singer-Australia.html "undefined") that ever since [Olivia “Liv” Sturgiss](https://twitter.com/LivSturgiss "undefined") got her hair cut to look more like the pop star, the 19-year-old from New South Wales has been getting mistaken for the singer on the street. And now, through the Twitter hashtag [#noitsliv](https://twitter.com/hashtag/noitsliv?src=hash "undefined"), word about the striking resemblance has spread. Sturgiss claims that the pop star saw one of her Tumblr posts, which asked if she could meet the recording artist at a Melbourne concert and noted that her mother died of cancer recently, since Swift revealed her mother has cancer in April. Backstage, Sturgiss said the two bonded over their moms’ cancer battles and then had a laugh over how much taller Sturgiss was than Swift, who claimed she wasn’t wearing heels due to an ankle injury, the doppelganger told [_Daily Mail Australia_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3357041/Taylor-Swift-lookalike-teen-checkout-chick-finally-meets-singer-Australia.html "undefined")_._ “It was the greatest moment of my life,” Sturgiss wrote [on Tumblr](http://olivia-oblivious.tumblr.com/ "undefined"). See how similar she looks to Swift: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4147512/taylor-swift-doppelganger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4147512/taylor-swift-doppelganger/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Met Her Doppelganger","datePublished":"2015-12-14T16:37:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:41.198Z","description":"An Australian woman bears a striking resemblance to the pop star","url":"https://time.com/4147512/taylor-swift-doppelganger/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4147512/taylor-swift-doppelganger/","name":"Taylor Swift Met Her Doppelganger"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Power of Taylor Swift","description":"One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mUgZx3qP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T20:13:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4147512/taylor-swift-doppelganger/","duration":"PT2M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4147512/taylor-swift-doppelganger/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```