Tina Knowles-Lawson explains that Beyoncé is actually her maiden name in a podcast

Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles-Lawson recently revealed on the 'In My Head with Heather Thomson' podcast that Beyonce was actually her maiden name. She also talked in detail about the name and how she thought the name Beyonce wasn't cool. Read ahead to know what Tina said in her interview. 

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'Thought Beyonce wasn't cool': Tina Lawson

Tina Knowles-Lawson started off the interaction by mentioning that Beyonce was actually her maiden name and not a lot of people knew that. She mentioned that her name earlier had been Celestine Beyoncé and how she had thought the name wasn't cool and was rather quite weird. Tina added that she wanted her name to be Linda Smith 'because those were the cool names'.

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Tina then mentioned in the podcast how only a few people in her family had the name 'Beyonce' as their surname. The businesswoman credited this mistake due to clerical errors. Tina added that a lot of her family had the surname Beyincé and only she and her brother had the right surname.   

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Tina then talked about an instance when she had asked her mother why her other siblings had the name Beyincé when she was a little grown. Her mother had mentioned to her 'that was what put on their birth certificates'. She then asked her mother if she had then tried to get it corrected. Her mother responded by saying that she had once. She had revealed how she was told she should 'be happy that you’re getting a birth certificate because, at one time, Black people didn’t get birth certificates'.

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Tina then talked about how horrible it must have been to not have one's kids' name right in the birth certificate. Finally, she added that they all had different names and that people didn't try to 'put the two together and know that's the same name'.

 Tina Knowles-Lawson is an American businesswoman, fashion designer known for her House of Deréon. She was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1954 and is the last of seven siblings. 

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