A woman who legally changed her name a year ago has been slammed by her family for not telling them sooner. She said her name used to be "Emma-Leigh Izobel Lastname", but she often went by "Em" instead.
She explained: "Mom likes unique names, and yes my siblings have similarly weird names. "And yes, the hyphen in my first name was a pain in the a**." The woman eventually made the decision to change it by deed poll to something a little simpler for "professional purposes".
But a year after doing so she told her family - and they weren't impressed. She said: "I'm now Emily Isabelle Lastname. I changed it for professional purposes since I felt my old name wasn’t suited for a more serious setting.
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