Sahar Tabar's Zombie Angelina Jolie Photos

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Sahar Tabar's Zombie Angelina Jolie Photos refer to photographs taken by Iranian teenager Sahar Tabar which were widely circulated online under the false pretenses that she received over 50 plastic surgeries to resemble actress Angelina Jolie.

Origin

In early October 2017, Tabar began posting photographs of herself on the @sahartabar_afficilalll Instagram feed.^[1] In many of the photos, she is shown wearing a bandage on her nose as if she had undergone plastic surgery (shown below).

On November 25th, the Turkish Twitter feed @ensonhaber tweeted photos of Tabar,^[5] claiming the Iranian teenager "spent a fortune to look like Angelina Jolie" (shown below).

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On November 29th, 2017, the Americo Sperandio Facebook^[2] page posted several photographs of Tabar, claiming she received 50 plastic surgeries to look like actress Angelina Jolie (shown below).

On November 30th, the news site The Sun published an article about Tbar, featuring several photographs taken from her Instagram feed (shown below).

On December 1st, Snopes^[3] published an article listing the Tabar's claims as "unproven." On December 5th, Behind the Meme uploaded a video about Tabar (shown below).

On December 4th, the Russian news site Sputnik published an interview with Tabar,^[4] in which she revealed she was not trying to resemble Angelina Jolie nor the Corpse Bride character. Additionally, she claimed to have only had three plastic surgeries: one on her nose, one on her mouth and a liposuction. In the interview, she did not claim to have started the rumors, yet many news publications subsequently cited the interview in reports she had orchestrated the rumors as a hoax, including Sun,^[6] The Independent^[7] and Mirror.^[8]