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It’s either the highest form of flattery or an extremely creepy form of identity theft—maybe both. In a saga that would make a good prelude to a sequel to Single White Female, a woman who ran the Boston Marathon says that another woman Photoshopped her face onto her body to pretend she ran it too. And she has proof.
Samantha MacIntyre is an influencer with half a million followers on TikTok (@sageandmaize) and over 100,000 on Instagram. On her pages, which include a YouTube channel, the long-distance runner posts about fashion, fitness, and travel.
In a recent TikTok, MacIntyre says she got a strange message from a guy a while back.
“Enough time has passed that I feel like I can talk about this,” she begins. “After I ran the Boston Marathon this year, I got a DM from this guy that a girl that he was talking to had taken my photos from me running the Boston Marathon and Photoshopped her face onto my body and was posting it onto her Instagram acting like she ran.”
MacIntyre adds that the woman had “the audacity” to post her time in the marathon and pretend it was hers. Not only that, but she wrote that she was disappointed in her results.
MacIntyre pauses to gaze into the camera incredulously. “Huh?” she jokes. “I will stab you.”
In a comment, she says the guy figured it out because he is one of her followers.
Now For The Receipts
People were flabbergasted. “Marathon fakers and cancer fakers are fascinating to me bc you simply don’t have to do that,” a top comment reads.
Another said, “That is unbelievably psychotic behavior.”
A common quip is people jokingly wondering why the other woman didn’t Photoshop the results she wanted.
Many were desperate to see the screenshots. In a follow-up post, MacIntyre gave the people what they wanted. She posted six photos in all, including three of her originals and the three Photoshopped versions the woman purportedly created. “This is my friend Brad posting on his story. That’s me. Obviously. And this is what she posted,” MacIntyre says.
The first screenshot of one of the woman’s posts includes a caption lamenting it’s “not the outcome I wanted but we’ll be back for that sub 3:15. Back to the lab.”
MacIntyre pauses. “First of all, I’ve already gotten sub-3:15,” she says. “So if that’s the time that you wanted, you should’ve taken my other results.”
The second picture is one of MacIntyre and her boyfriend post-marathon.
The third, she says, “is the craziest one.”
“My mom posted this one on her page. I didn’t repost this one,” MacIntyre says.
In that photo, also taken after the Boston Marathon, a smiling MacIntyre holds her race medal.
She doesn’t appear to have identified the woman in either post or in the comments.
@sageandmaize i have screenshots
@sageandmaize Replying to @🖤⚡️Killer⚡️🖤
More Details Emerge
The Photoshop jobs are rather convincing, in part because the two women do resemble one another.
Some did notice that the other woman either used photos or a filter of her face in full makeup. Very few runners will have a full face of makeup after running 26.2 miles. So that doesn’t quite make sense.
“I CANT HAHAHAHAHA NOT THE FULL GLAM AFTER THE BOSTON MARATHON,” one person wrote. MacIntyre agreed, writing, “Like I barely had the energy to shower afterwards.”
The woman might not be fast on her feet, but MacIntyre says she is a quick draw with Photoshop. She purportedly posted the Photoshopped photos around 10pm the night of the Boston Marathon.
This could mean she was watching MacIntyre’s page, as well as her mother’s, waiting for them to post pictures.
People were seriously disturbed someone would make all this effort to lie. “Picturing her at home taking photos of herself making the same faces at the same angle to be able to photoshop these is killing me,” wrote one.
Another said, “OK the whole [thing] is weird enough but she even Photoshopped herself with your boyfriend??”
MacIntyre replied that this made her “SO uncomfortable.”
Via her public relations representative, MacIntyre declined to comment.