{"id":134568,"date":"2024-11-24T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T09:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/cher-shocked-to-find-out-real-birth-name\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T09:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T09:01:56","slug":"cher-shocked-to-find-out-real-birth-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/cher-shocked-to-find-out-real-birth-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher &#8216;shocked&#8217; to find out real birth name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-24\" datetime=\"1732438916\" pubdate=\"\">24 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/cher\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,cher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a> was &#8220;shocked&#8221; to find out her real name.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Cher was shocked by her real name<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old singer was raised as Cherilyn Sarkisian, but in 1979, she applied for a copy of her birth certificate so she could officially change her moniker to reflect the one she used as a performer &#8211; and discovered she had actually been registered as Cheryl.<\/p>\n<p>In an extract from her book &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/cher\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,cher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a>: The Memoir, Part One&#8217; seen by People magazine, she wrote: &#8220;I believed Cherilyn was my name until the day years later when I decided to legally change my name to simply Cher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/cher\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,cher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a>&#8216;s mom, Georgia Holt endured a long labour without pain relief when she gave birth a month early and was &#8220;exhausted&#8221; afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>While Georgia was recovering, a nurse visited her room and asked the 19-year-old new mom what she planned to name her baby.<\/p>\n<p>\nCher wrote: &#8220;My mother had no idea, but the woman insisted so she replied, &#8216;Well, Lana Turner&#8217;s my favorite actress and her little girl&#8217;s called Cheryl. My mother&#8217;s name is Lynda, so how about Cherilyn? &#8216; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter seeing her birth certificate for the first time, the &#8216;Believe&#8217; hitmaker asked her mother: &#8220;Do you even know my real name, Mom?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told how her mom &#8211; who passed away in December 2022 aged 96 &#8211; snatched the document, looked at it and simply shrugged as she told her famous daughter: &#8220;I was only a teenager, and I was in a lot of pain. Give me a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Strong Enough&#8217; hitmaker previously praised her mother for doing such a &#8220;good job&#8221; with their Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told Britain&#8217;s OK! magazine:  \u201cWe were really poor. But my mom always managed to do a good job. She saved her money and mostly that went into Christmas time for my sister and myself. You don&#8217;t have to have a lot of money to have a fun time at Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the &#8216;Mermaids&#8217; actress admitted she had always been a &#8220;wild child&#8221; looking for adventures, recalling how she persuaded a friend to run away from home with her when they were just nine years old.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;When I was nine years old, I decided was going to run away from school.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I talked my friend into going on a journey, like going on an adventure, and we hopped on a freight train. I had no idea where was going. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cl&#8217;d thrown my lunchbox away, which my mom was more angry about than anything else, and then we just rode this train until my friend started crying because it got dark. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;So I called my mom and she was like, &#8216;Cher! What? You&#8217;re where? What have you done? Oh my God.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI wasn&#8217;t running away, I was going to come home but just wanted to have the adventure. I was a wild child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/cher-shocked-find-real-birth-name-1409604.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 November 2024 Cher was &#8220;shocked&#8221; to find out her real name. 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