EXCLUSIVE Is that you, Kim? Married At First Sight bride mistaken for Kardashian as she copies her look and slips into Skims at Australian Fashion Week

Daily Mail​

14-05-2025

Married at First Sight bride Carina Mirabile has taken her Kim Kardashian copy-catting to another level at Australian Fashion Week, as she gears up to launch her own podcast.
Carina, 31, turned heads on Day Two of Sydney 's streetwear fashion parade as she arrived to Carriageworks wearing the nude SKIMS 'Ultimate Butt' bodysuit and a fur coat.
The season 12 bride, who was matched with controversial French groom Paul Antoine on MAFS, has taken great pains to cultivate comparisons to the Kardashian-Jenner clan.
Carina served her best 'Kim' on Wednesday in an ultra-long hair piece that took her stylist and podcast co-host Jacob Muller three days to make.
'It's a visual love letter to dating at the moment,' Muller told Daily Mail Australia as Carina twirled to show off the elaborate extension.
'Every piece, every string represents a person. I used cotton because cotton is very fragile, just like our hearts. I actually cried making this piece.'
'I think transitioning from being married on the show and going through a relationship and it didn't work in my favour, this is my next chapter.
'The look says "What's happening from Carina?"
'Yes this is my own 'fit. I bought this fur coat from New York in Brooklyn and I've got SKIMS on underneath and literally pantyhose stockings,' she added.
'I've got my Ottalinger bag, which I love, and then of course the staple piece for today's show is my long hair extension.'
Carina agreed the hair piece is 'very Willow Smith' before asking Muller to jump in and 'say what it is.'
The brunette wore a nude SKIMS bodysuit from Kim's recently released Ultimate Butt Enhancing line that includes padded shorts, leggings and bodysuits for a 'bigger, rounder, perkier' derrière.
In a February campaign for the new line, Kim styled herself as the 'Fairy Butt Mother' to all women seeking an instant 'boob job' or 'butt lift' with the help of subtle padding.
The nude bodysuit and fur jacket combo is one the Kardashian star has rocked at Paris Fashion Week front rows for at least 10 years, when she was representing her ex husband Kanye West's Yeezy bodysuits.
The nude bodysuit and fur jacket combo is one the Kardashian star has rocked at Paris Fashion Week front rows for at least 10 years, as well as behind-the-scenes of Saturday Night Live
More recently though, it's a look the mum-of-four has reinvigorated for the launch of her flagship Skims store on Melrose Drive in Los Angeles.
Throughout Carina's time on MAFS her one-for-one outfit matches to Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian earned her the nickname 'Temu Kim.'
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia in January, Carina said she was flattered by the nickname, but laughed it off nonetheless.
'I mean, come on - I'm a little more classy than that! But honestly, I am inspired by Kim's fashion and style.
'Most of all, I resonate with her family dynamic. I come from a big family too, and that's something I deeply value.'
Like Kris Jenner, who has four children - Kylie and Kendall Jenner, and Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, and Rob Kardashian, and 14 grandchildren, mum Carmel also enjoys a large family with 5 children and ten grandchildren.
And much like the Kardashians, who have a vast multi-media empire at their feet, Carina, too is part of an impressive family-run business.
The Mirabile family, led by Carina's mother and father Carmel and Tony, run Beyond Tools—a purveyor of heavy duty machinery and power tools.
Carina works in the business as a digital marketing manager and social media specialist.
Carina tried out careers as a broadcast journalist, TV personality, host, model, and actress, prior to applying for season 12 of MAFS.
She got her big TV break in as 'lead actress' in a Channel Nine TV segment filmed with Beyond Tools in 2018.
The brunette beauty has a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from Edith Cowan University, a diploma in fashion design and completed acting classes at the famous West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Carina auditioned to be the host of E! News Australia back in 2014, before putting journalism on the back burner to pursue acting and modelling.
Just before her appearance on MAFS, she followed in Kim's footsteps again by launching her own unisex athleisure clothing label called Mirab (a reference to her surname).
She has more than tripled her Instagram following from 49,000 to 156,000 since her season of MAFS finished airing and on Wednesday, announced a new podcast with Muller called This Is Chaos.
'We used to joke in his salon chair about starting a podcast because our conversations were absolutely unhinged and now here we are,' Carina wrote on Instagram. What started in the glam chair before the cameras rolled has turned into something much bigger than we ever imagined.
'You only saw a snippet of me from the show, now I'm ready to go deep, get raw and vulnerable and shut those rumors about "fake" Carina. We're so excited to finally share it with you and be apart of the journey with us.'
Since leaving MAFS, she has also fashioned herself a Kim-style haircut with a chin-length fringe.