Originally appeared on E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n JoJo Siwa<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s head is spinning like a boomerang.<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>Dance Moms<\/span> alum recently had some fun while highlighting how much her personality has changed over her career.<\/span><\/p>\n In JoJo\u2019s <\/span>new music video<\/span><\/span> for her song \u201cI\u2019m Still Dancin\u2019,\u201d she appears as six different versions of herself, each representing a specific time from her life. <\/span><\/p>\n For her bad girl era that she introduced with her 2024 song \u201cKarma,\u201d the 22-year-old sported black facepaint, a black bedazzled body suit and gems in her hair. Meanwhile, she also portrayed herself as \u201cJoelle,\u201d a polished and reserved JoJo who donned a blush pink skirt and sweater without any rhinestones, meant to represent her current, more mature self.<\/span><\/p>\n In a March 16 <\/span>TikTok video<\/span><\/a>, the \u201cBoomerang\u201d singer (full name <\/span>Joelle Joanie Siwa<\/strong>) plays on the dichotomy of the two and has them lipsynching to a clip of <\/span>Kourtney Kardashian<\/strong> and <\/span>Khloe Kardashian<\/strong> in an argument. <\/span><\/p>\n More from E! Online<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou could tell me these are 2 different people,\u201d JoJo captioned the clip, \u201cand I would believe you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Aside from joking about how different her past is from her present, JoJo\u2014who started dating <\/span>Chris Hughes<\/strong> in April\u2014has recently detailed all the ways in which she has grown up since appearing on <\/span>Dance Moms<\/span> a decade ago. <\/span><\/p>\n JoJo Siwa\/TikTok<\/p>\n \u201cI’ve gotten more comfortable with the idea of Joelle,\u201d she told E! News\u2019 <\/span>The Rundown<\/span><\/a> last month. \u201cMy boyfriend calls me Joelle. My family doesn’t call me Joelle. My friends call me JoJo, but <\/span>Jenna Johnson<\/strong> from <\/span>Dancing With the Stars<\/span> calls me Joelle. So it’s kind of been a mix in my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n However, JoJo added, \u201cI feel like Joelle more so now than ever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n As for who this new version of herself truly is?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI’m still meeting her myself,\u201d JoJo continued. \u201cI think Joelle is the happy version of JoJo, and I feel like JoJo is the crazy version of Joelle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, JoJo isn\u2019t the only star who has adopted a new name throughout their career. Read on to see other celebrities who use stage names. <\/span><\/p>\n Austin Richard Post<\/p>\n Congratulations to Post Malone<\/strong>, who incorporated his surname into his stage name. However, the rapper does prefer his close friends to call him by his real name.<\/p>\n During the 2024 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift<\/strong> referred to him as “Austin” when they won the Best Collaboration award for their duet “Fortnight.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Aubrey Frances Anderson-Emmons<\/p>\n Though she portrayed Lilly on Modern Family under the name Aubrey Anderson-Emmons<\/strong>, the actress changed her moniker to Frances Anderson<\/strong> to mark her era as a musician.<\/p>\n \u201cFrances is actually part of my legal name\u2014it\u2019s my middle name, and it\u2019s after my mom\u2019s old family friend,\u201d she explained in a 2025 E! News interview<\/a>. \u201cI thought, one, it was a bit shorter than ‘Aubrey Anderson-Emmons.’ I do have a long, hyphenated last name.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hannah Fanning & Mary Fanning<\/p>\n The siblings grew up going up by their middle names<\/a>, which they chose to use when they entered Hollywood: Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning. <\/p>\n As Elle explained, because their mother went by her middle name, it made sense for the sisters to do the same. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was awkward in school when they were calling roll call,\u201d she recalled to Glamour in 2016, \u201cbecause they\u2019d go, \u2018Mary? Mary?\u2019 Kids would be like, \u2018There\u2019s no Mary here.\u2019 I\u2019d awkwardly raise my hand, like, \u2018Uh, it\u2019s me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n William Carl Radke<\/p>\n The Summer House star shocked Bravo fans by revealing his legally given first name isn’t actually Carl<\/a>.<\/p>\n “My I.D. and my passport\u2014my first name is William,” Carl\u2014who has appeared on the reality show for all nine seasons\u2014told PopViewers<\/a> in August 2025. “So, my middle name is Carl, but I’ve always, since day one, been called Carl.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sterling Kelby Brown<\/p>\n Sterling K. Brown<\/strong> went by his middle name Kelby until he was a teenager.<\/p>\n “My dad’s name is <\/span>Sterling Brown Jr.<\/strong>, my grandfather is <\/span>Sterling Brown Sr.<\/strong>,” he said during an April 2025 appearance on <\/span>The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/span><\/a>. “I wanted my own name and it felt like Sterling was an old man’s name.”<\/span><\/p>\n But years after his dad died from a heart attack, the This Is Us alum decided to revert back to his first name as a way to honor his father.<\/p>\n “Because he passed away when I was 10, by the time I turned 16 and I hadn’t heard his name for five, five-and-a-half years,\u201d he continued. \u201cI was like, \u2018I kinda just want to hear that name again.\u2019 So I asked people to call me Sterling.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nicholas Dylan Efron<\/p>\n The Traitors winner shared on E!’s Hot Goss that his real name is Nicholas Dylan Harrison Efron<\/strong>, but he’s “axed off” his first name and prefers Dylan. As he explained, “That’s my first name and everything gets bumped up,” making Harrison his middle name now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Andrew Mignogna, Matthew Mignogna & Joey Mignogna<\/p>\n Andrew Lawrence<\/strong>, Matthew Lawrence<\/strong> and Joey Lawrence<\/strong> adopted a new last name in their careers. Joey\u2014whose middle name is Lawrence\u2014was the first to do so after a talent agent criticized the family surname.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Katherine Victoria Litwack<\/p>\n Kat Dennings<\/strong> adopted a stage name at age 9, years before she made her official onstage acting debut on a 2000 episode of Sex and the City.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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