Models That Have Changed Their Names

[FrenchCactus]

Charlotte Di Calypso's name has definitely got a p*rnstar/action hero quality to it, it could never be her real name!!!

I know! OK, Beillard isn't the most catchy & pronounceable name, but Di Calypso??? How more far-fetched can you get? It's as if she took the most exotic and "noble" name she could find as a teenager to make herself look more interesting.

 

[aynoray]

DJ Brown & Beegee Margenyte seem like changed names imo
and then there's Juju as well (although not as random)

http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/beegee-margenyte-118489.html
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/dj-brown-146587.html

 

[models_vlada]

Rj King's real name is "Robert Jackson King III"

 

[MyNameIs]

KASIA STRUSS ->that's not her real name, she changed it because it was too complicated to pronounce and remember

Her real name is... Katarzyna Strusińska

Wow, I had no idea. Obviously it must've been a good move given how successful a career she's had, but I prefer her original name.

 

[balmain1914]

seems Sasha P is the only Russian model who keeps the original names. she can because she has such unique face and expression.

 

[petit fours]

Amanda Elizabeth Janet Muise = Andi Muise

 

[Niusity]

Kasia is a deminutive for Katarzyna so technicly she didn't change it. It's like with Sasha Pivovarova, her full name is Alexandra.

 

[Niusity]

Arizona Muse is Zoe Muse.

 

[jemina]

^^Arizona sound so much better than Zoe.

 

[Bamhutt]

Arizona Muse is Zoe Muse.

Actually, this has been discussed in her first thread and her real name is Arizona... it's the name on her passport!

 

[aynoray]

^yes...apparently Zoe is the name she was given when she first started modeling in LA!

 

[Ochi Chernye]

seems Sasha P is the only Russian model who keeps the original names. she can because she has such unique face and expression.

Sasha's real name is Alexandra. Also, Natalia Vodianova never changed her name.

 

[Fontenrose]

Using a nickname or shortened form of your name is not really changing your name. Sasha is just the usual nickname for Alexander/dra.

 

[Ochi Chernye]

^ True, but then people can't say that girls like Struss, Poly or Roslyakova changed their names. All they did was either shorten their names or choose nicknames.

 

[yum_yum]

Angelique Deng changed hers to Ajak

kinda catchy I'm getting used to it.

close, but the other way around. Her real name is Ajak (common Sudanese name) & she changed it to Angelique when she began modelling outside of australia

 

[Niusity]

Elle Macpherson is Eleanor Nancy Gow.

 

[jacquelineo]

Nataliya Pirozhkova --> Nataliya Piro

 

[Nils]

I read somewhere that Hanne-Gaby Odiele's real name is Hanne Termote. Don't know the story behind the name change though...

 

[coco vaughn]

^ yep, Hanne-Gaby Termote. i have no idea why Odiele seemed better to them than Termote?

 

[aynoray]

Suzie Bird's real name is Sandra Plassard