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How Erin turned posh for her U.S. admirers

SWANLIKE model Erin O’Connor, who grew up on a council estate in the West Midlands, admits she faked being upper- class while working in the U.S.

‘What I enjoyed was the play on people assuming my identity,’ the Vogue cover star whispers. ‘As soon as I landed in America, I was obviously related to the Queen, and I must have been a blue-blood because I was British.’

The daughter of a furnace builder and teacher adds: ‘I played along with it. I didn’t feel in any way I was betraying my background, but rather, enjoying this need: people needed this idea of me and what they wanted me to be. As long as you’re in on the joke, that’s OK.’

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