There are two version of the story behind how Brie Larson (born Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) got her stage name, but both were rooted in practicality. "Well, my real name is hard to pronounce, and it just got extremely frustrating to correct people all the time," she told Glamour in 2014. "Plus, I never went by Brianne. It's a name you get called when you're in trouble!" Larson explained the surname she goes by is a family name from her great-grandmother.

The other story has to do with her cameos on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as mentioned previously. In 2015, Larson recalled on Jimmy Fallon how an American Girl doll she held as a prop in Leno's skits inspired her to change her name. "The doll is an American [Girl] doll, Kirsten Larson, and my last name is French and very hard to say," Larson explained to Fallon after he showed her a clip of fake commercials she did on Jay Leno (via Today). "I was so sick of it, so as a result I was like, 'I'm changing my name! I'm changing it to Larson so that Kirsten can be in our family!'"

It's obvious that Larson made the right decision because her career has been unstoppable since her name change and we applaud her kid self for having good instincts.

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