Much like her similarly misnamed peer, Anne Hathaway, who revealed last month during a virtual appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, that her given name Anne, "doesn't fit." She clarified, "I'm an Annie." Katherine Heigl shared with Drew Barrymore, "No one calls me Katherine." The actress joked, "It sounds much more sophisticated right? Like an adult named Katherine."
For Heigl, it's not just a personal preference, however. Having two names, or rather one name and one nickname, helps the mother of three maintain a better work-life balance. She explained, "It helps me separate my work from me if that makes sense. I just had to embrace it."
It's all pretty relatable when you think about it. Everyone has nicknames their friends and family use to address them, and those nicknames are much different than the name your boss, professor, students, or clients use to address you. And really, just because your mom calls you "Magpie" when your full name is "Margaret" and your boyfriend sweetly refers to you as "Sugar," does not mean you want your gynecologist to call you either of those names while getting an exam... unless you're into that sort of thing, of course.
