17 Celebs Who Were Pressured To Use A Stage Name

She told Collider, “But I kept thinking, if everyone could get past Schwarzenegger and learn how to say that, then surely they can learn how to say my name as well. It just always rubbed me the wrong way to change it to something completely different, which was suggested, so I kind of went for this phonetic spelling version. Yeah, it was a cultural thing back then that’s something that I don’t think that I would do now if I were to start now and move forward.”