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Hailey Baldwin to Hailey Bieber - Baldwin rose to fame as a model and TV personality. She is also the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin.
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Hailey Baldwin to Hailey Bieber - Baldwin has been pictured with Bieber since 2015, and the couple reportedly got married in October 2018. Baldwin changed her Instagram name to Hailey Bieber.
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Victoria Adams to Victoria Beckham - Victoria Adams was once the real name of Posh Spice, who got famous with the Spice Girls back in the '90s.
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Victoria Adams to Victoria Beckham - In July 1999, Victoria married David Beckham, taking his famous last name. The couple have stayed strong ever since.
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Salma Hayek to Salma Hayek Pinault - Hayek is a Hollywood icon who has starred in films like 'Desperado' and 'From Dusk till Dawn.'
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Salma Hayek to Salma Hayek Pinault - The Mexican actress married François-Henri Pinault, a French businessman, in 2009. She has changed her name to Salma Hayek Pinault.
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Angelina Jolie to Angelina Jolie Pitt - You know Jolie as the Oscar-winning star of films like 'Girl, Interrupted' and 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.'
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Angelina Jolie to Angelina Jolie Pitt - She married Brad Pitt in 2014, and changed her name around the same time. She used Angelina Jolie Pitt for a New York Times byline, and again at the Kids’ Choice Awards in 2015. Yet the two are now divorcing.
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Kim Kardashian to Kim Kardashian West - The Kardashian name could be worth billions, so perhaps unsurprisingly Kim didn't drop it completely.
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Kim Kardashian to Kim Kardashian West - Instead, the reality star added West onto her name. The couple married in 2014, and have three children together.
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Portia de Rossi to Portia DeGeneres - Portia married Ellen DeGeneres in 2008, and took her world-famous surname.
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Portia de Rossi to Portia DeGeneres - The actress rose to fame in 'Ally McBeal.' Professionally she still goes by Portia de Rossi, but on paper she shares a surname with her high-profile wife.
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Miranda Lambert to Miranda Shelton - Lambert is a successful country singer who worked with Blake Shelton before marrying him in 2011.
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Miranda Lambert to Miranda Shelton - Lambert reportedly changed her name to Miranda Shelton in 2011. However, the couple recently split, with Miranda releasing a new song: 'Got My Name Changed Back.'
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Jenna Dewan to Jenna Dewan Tatum - Dewan got her start as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson before eventually starring in films like 'Tamara' and 'Step Up.' It was on the set of this last film that she met her future husband.
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Jenna Dewan to Jenna Dewan Tatum - Dewan married Channing Tatum in 2009, and changed her name to Jenna Dewan Tatum on social media. The couple have since split up, and she is back to using Jenna Dewan.
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Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson to Fergie Duhamel - Fergie found fame as one quarter of The Black Eyed Peas, though she has since left the group.
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Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson to Fergie Duhamel - Originally named Stacy Ann Ferguson, Fergie changed her name to Fergie Duhamel after she married actor Josh Duhamel in 2009. The couple separated in 2017.
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Vanessa Minnillo to Vanessa Lachey - Minnillo made it as a TV personality, appearing on shows like 'Total Request Line' and 'Entertainment Tonight.'
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Vanessa Minnillo to Vanessa Lachey - Minnillo married singer Nick Lachey in 2011. Why did she drop her last name? “I'm old fashioned and I want[ed] to,” she told Access Hollywood.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar to Sarah Michelle Prinze - Gellar is best known for playing the title character on TV show 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' She married Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2002, but changed her name much later.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar to Sarah Michelle Prinze - In an interview, the actress said, “I'd been meaning to change my last name to Prinze, but I just hadn't gotten off my lazy a*** to get it changed.” She eventually got it changed in 2007, but still goes by Sarah Michelle Gellar professionally.
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Katy Perry to Katy Brand - Born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, the singer was once married to comedian Russell Brand.
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Katy Perry to Katy Brand - In 2010, reports surfaced that this singer was to use Brand as her last name. However, the couple divorced in 2012.
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Demi Guynes to Demi Moore - The 'G.I. Jane' actress was born Demi Guynes.
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Demi Guynes to Demi Moore - Demi married musician Freddy Moore in 1980, and has used his surname ever since. They divorced in 1985 and she went on to marry, and divorce, actors Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher.
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Jessica Biel to Jessica Timberlake - The '7th Heaven' actress was famous long before she met Justin Timberlake. She has a pretty memorable name, but changed it when she married him in 2012.
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Jessica Biel to Jessica Timberlake - “I think I really won the jackpot of names,” she told People.
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Meghan Markle to Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor - This celeb shares a name with her best-known role, Rachel Zane of 'Suits.' She was born Rachel Meghan Markle, but dropped her official first name.
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Meghan Markle to Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor
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Celebs who changed their last names after marriage
In the world of show business, a name means everything
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Your name is your brand in show business. Entertainers change their names all the time in an attempt to become A-listers, but sometimes they also drop their famous last names. Take Hailey Baldwin, who dropped her last name and replaced it with Bieber on social media.
Here's a list of other celebs who dropped their famous last names, swapping them for their significant others' surnames.
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