Category: Fashion & Beauty
Title: Glamour
Glamour magazine has asked whether stars would have been successful if they hadn't given themselves stage names.
It revealed that it was Prince who told model and actress Carmen Electra that she should ditch her birth name of Tara Leigh Patrick.
She went on to star in Baywatch, Cheaper By The Dozen 2 and Starsky & Hutch and marry and subsequently divorce both Dennis Rodman and Dave Navarro - although not at the same time, obviously.
Other stars to alter their names include Ozzy Osbourne, who ditched John as his Christian name when he formed Black Sabbath.
Charlie Sheen followed his father Martin Sheen in abandoning his birth name, changing it from Carlos Irwin Estevez.
However, his brother Emilio Estevez, who starred in Mighty Ducks, as well as an Orange mobile advert, refused to become a Sheen.
Agyness Deyn used to be Laura Hollins, but changed on the advice of a numerology expert, while Jennifer Aniston was once known as Jennifer Anastassakis.
Posted by Alex Roe
What would your stage name be?