‘My first name is…’: Storm sets record straight after 2fm drama
Storm Keating may have been born with a model-ready name, but if things had gone differently we'd be calling her something very different indeed.
The Aussie beauty took to Instagram just now to defend herself after some controversy around her "real" name cropped up on 2fm this morning.
During an interview with 2fm's Breakfast Republic host Jennifer Maguire, RTÉ's weather queen Teresa Mannion dropped the bombshell that Storm's real name might not in fact be the one we've always known her by.
"When I was doing Good Morning Australia, the presenters were chatting to me during the break and they were saying, ‘Do you kow Ronan Keating?'” she said, according to Goss.ie.
"He’s married to an Australian’ and I said ‘Oh yeah, Storm’ and they said that’s not her real name. There was a little bit of bitchiness there.”
After some Google sleuthing, Jennifer suggested on air that Storm's name might in fact be (the far less glamourous) Sharyn.
Now, Storm's setting the record straight – yes her first name IS Sharyn, but she's always gone by her middle name.
She even went so far as to post a copy of her birth cert – which does indeed list her name as Sharyn Storm Uechtritz – to prove it.
"My birth certificate for @JenniferMaguire and anyone else who is curious about my name," the model wrote.
"My parents took the name 'Storm' from one of the novels in Wilbur Smith's first trilogy (a famous South African journalist) because they loved it and have called me Storm since I was born.
"They made my first name 'Sharyn' because they were worried that people might make fun of me… turns out they were right.
"The use of middle names is not uncommon," she finished, going on to list other celebs – including Brad Pitt, Ashton Kutcher, Bruce Willis, Rihanna and Will Ferrell – who've ditched their first names.
If you want to hear more, it might be worth tuning into 2fm tomorrow morning, at least if Jennifer gets her way:
Thanks for clearing that up! Wanna come on show tomorrow to talk about it? #breakfastrepublic #2fm #storminateacup https://t.co/IDerdO4G36
— Jennifer Zamparelli (@JenniferMaguire) March 7, 2016
Touché.
