Is model Agyness Deyn - the new Kate Moss - really three years older than she says?

11 April 2012
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It appears that Agyness Deyn, the face of Burberry and Armani, is actually 24 and not 21 as claimed on internet databases

She has taken the fashion world by storm and is tipped as a successor to Kate Moss.

But it seems Agyness Deyn - star of London Fashion Week last week - is not quite as young and fresh-faced as her admirers might think.

In a series of interviews it has been reported that the model, famously spotted while working in a fish and chip shop, is 21.

Internet databases also claim she is the same age – giving her date of birth as February 16, 1986.

However, it appears that Agyness, the face of Burberry and Armani, whose real name is Laura Hollins, is actually 24.

Her listing on the Companies House website, under the name Laura Hollins, shows her birthday as February 16, 1983.

And on social networking site Facebook, on a page dedicated to Ms Deyn, entitled Agyness Deyn You're Not 18 – a reference to a New York magazine piece that says her birthday is in 1989, people claiming to be former acquaintances discuss her age.

The site's introductory blurb says: "This group is for all those who realise that supermodel Agyness Deyn, AKA Laura Hollins, is not 18, or 21 or any of the other ages she claims to be. We know people who went to school with her and will verify she is 24."

Laura Hollins went from All Saints' Catholic Language College in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, to Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School to take A-levels in music and drama.

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Agyness, star of London Fashion Week last week, on the catwalk

Agyness, star of London Fashion Week last week, on the catwalk

Her mother Lorraine, 54, said yesterday: "I don't want to discuss anything about her.

"I'm very proud of her but I have been advised by someone acting on her behalf not to speak about her and I'm not even prepared to say who."

No one from her Models 1 agency was available for comment.

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Agyness poses for a school photo as a child

Agyness poses for a school photo as a child

Agyness, who changed her name from Laura, aged 17 with her mother Lorraine

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