As surely as everyone goes through puberty, everyone - at one point or another - hates their given name. No matter how pedestrian or outlandish, everyone goes through a phase of despising their name, and almost everyone wants to change it at some point. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughters are no exception - in fact, Rumer Glenn and Scout LaRue probably have more reasons than
anyone for wanting to change their names. But it is their younger sister, 14-year-old Tallulah Belle (arguably the best-named girl in the bunch) who is
legally changing hers.Tallulah commissioned her dad to make a public announcement regarding her name change on last night's broadcast of The Late Show with David Letterman. Said Bruce, "Tallulah wanted me to mention on here tonight that she's legally
changing her name from Tallulah to Lulah. Just Lulah. Doesn't like her
name, doesn't like Tallulah. She's legally changing it."
Lulah. Well, actually it's pretty cute. Lulah Belle is even cuter. And it's a part of her given name, so it's not like she's going by something completely random and radical. But at 14, is it really necessary, or even a good idea, to legally change it? Am I horribly out of touch, or is that giving a young teen a tad too much freedom? Why not just go by Lulah, and leave the birth certificate out of it?
If I had asked my parents to help me legally change my name at 14, they would have laughed in my face. Of course, I would have wanted to go by Sylvia Plath Jane's Addiction Cobb... but that's beside the point.
Would you let your 14-year-old legally change his or her name?
