Iggy Azalea Only Allows an "Elite" Group to Use Her Real Name
What is successful a name? For these stars, a full lot.
Because if you ever wondered how their monikers seemed excessively bully to beryllium true is because, well, they are. Indeed, galore of your favourite celebrities switched up their names earlier they skyrocketed to superstardom. Why? Well, for some, their fans had a hard clip remembering their names. And, for others, it's simply a puerility nickname they didn't privation to shake. (Yes, we're looking astatine you Miley Cyrus , who legally changed her sanction from Destiny Hope Cyrus successful 2008.
But careless the reason, plentifulness of famous faces have decided to reinvent themselves.
For Frank Ocean (born: Christopher Edwin Breaux), changing his sanction "was the astir empowering shit I did successful 2010, for sure," helium admitted. "It conscionable felt cool. None of america are our names. If you don't similar your name, past alteration your name...I'll beryllium boarding planes arsenic Christopher Francis Ocean."
He's not unsocial successful that belief.
Jamie Foxx , Jennifer Aniston , Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga all remade themselves by making a tweak years ago, and we can't adjacent ideate reasoning that they could spell by thing different than their well-known signifier names.
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But tin you conjecture the names they ditched from their commencement certificates?
Keep speechmaking to larn what each your favourite stars were primitively called...
Daniel Sudeikis
Jason Sudeikis confirmed connected Today that he was named Daniel aft his father, but pursuing immoderate confusion, his ma started utilizing his mediate sanction Jason to debar confusion.
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Eilleen Regina Edwards
Shania Twain shared the root communicative of her signifier sanction during an quality connected Apple Music's Home Now Radio : "In short, I was born, Eilleen Regina Edwards, and past I was adopted and I became Eilleen Regina Twain. Then I became a nonrecreational vocalist and I needed a signifier sanction that sounded a small little similar my grandmother's name, due to the fact that I'm named aft my grandmother, some my grandmothers, Eilleen and Regina . I think, successful my mind, I was conscionable not truly wanting to beryllium called my grandmother's sanction onstage, truthful I decided to alteration it to Shania Twain. I met idiosyncratic with the sanction Shania, thought it was beautiful, and Shania Twain was born."
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Belcalis Almanzar
Cardi B took connected the name Bacardi aft household and friends started calling her sister Hennessy. Later connected she shortened the sanction to thing that suited her quite a spot more.
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Jelena Noura Hadid
Oddly enough, Gigi Hadid got her signifier sanction successful schoolhouse erstwhile the teacher would confuse her and a miss named Helena. Since her ma called her "gigi" arsenic a word of endearment astatine home, she told the teacher to conscionable telephone her Gigi and it simply stuck.
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Mark Vincent
If you're looking for an explosive action-star name, however astir Vin Diesel instead?
Rachel Meghan Markle
Before she became the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was concisely known arsenic Rachel.
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Destiny Hope Cyrus
Miley Cyrus ' agleam grin is what inspired her puerility nickname, Smiley. Eventually the sanction was shortened to Miley and it stuck.
Peter Gene Hernandez
Apparently the vocalist looked much similar a Bruno than a Peter, truthful 1 time his dada started calling him Bruno. Ever since, helium has been known arsenic Bruno Mars .
Stefani Germanotta
Before the nutrient dresses and chart-topping music, Lady Gaga was conscionable an mundane miss from New York.
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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon
Turns retired Reese isn't even Reese Witherspoon 's mediate name. The histrion chose the moniker successful grant of her mother, whose maiden sanction is Reese.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Every creator has an change ego, and Lana Del Rey conscionable happens to beryllium the persona of prime for the singer.
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Christopher Edwin Breaux
In 2014, Frank Ocean legally changed his sanction because, wherefore not?
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Elizabeth Stamatina Fey
A small known information about 30 Rock 's Tina Fey is that she is really named Elizabeth. The comedian made a not truthful subtle tribute to her commencement sanction by naming her quality Liz Lemon.
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Calvin Broadus
This pioneer of West Coast rap would aboriginal spell connected to beryllium known arsenic Snoop Dogg .
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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor
Turns retired the "Royals" vocalist is truly into learning astir the aristocracy, hence the crushed wherefore she chose the name Lorde , but with a feminine 'e.'
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Enrique Morales
Before helium started shaking his bonbon for the masses, euphony superstar Ricky Martin went by this mundane name.
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Amethyst Kelly
It's hard to judge that Iggy Azalea was calved Amethyst Kelly!
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Adam Richard Wiles
Fans were confused when Taylor Swift thanked then-boyfriend Adam successful an acceptance speech, which pb radical to the find that Calvin Harris is simply a signifier name. The DJ told Shortlist magazine helium chose the sanction due to the fact that his archetypal azygous was much soulful and wanted thing a spot much "racially ambiguous."
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Jennifer Anastassakis
Before she became a household name, this was what erstwhile Friend Jennifer Aniston answered to.
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Alicia Augello Cook
Alicia Keys didn't ever person specified a philharmonic name.
Thomas Mapother IV
Before helium became arguably the biggest movie prima successful the world, Tom Cruise went by this name.
Natalie Hershlag
Back erstwhile she was calved successful 1980, this was however the aboriginal bigtime histrion Natalie Portman greeted the world.
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Amanda Lee Rogers
Before she became a big-time TV prima and joined Ellen DeGeneres , this was the sanction Portia de Rossi answered to.
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Reginald Dwight
Guess euphony superstar Elton John didn't deliberation his archetypal sanction would beryllium a deed with audiences.
Nicole Camilla Escovedo
Check erstwhile Paris Hilton BFF Nicole Richie 's commencement certificate and this is the sanction you'll see.
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Paul Hewson
All it took was a nickname from immoderate precocious schoolhouse friends, and U2 frontman Bono 's celebrated moniker was born.
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Tara Patrick
We agree. Carmen Electra is overmuch much effectual erstwhile it comes to selling a sexy Baywatch persona.
Eric Bishop
True, Jamie Foxx conscionable seems much fitting for an Oscar-winning Hollywood enactment guy.
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Demetria Gene Guynes
Before she'd starred successful dozens of immense Hollywood movies and joined 2 Tinseltown A-listers, this was the sanction Demi Moore went by.
Shawn Carter
Jay-Z is decidedly a much fitting sanction for a hip-hop impressario.
A mentation of this communicative was primitively published connected Thursday, March 28, 2019 astatine 6:20 a.m. PT.
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