Ready for some mundane details from Miley Cryus’ fascinating life? Great, me too! Miley officially changed her name this week from Destiny Hope Cyrus to Miley Ray Cyrus.
Although Miley was just a childhood nickname, the Hannah Montana star decided to adopt it as her real name, along with the middle name “Ray,” as a shout out to her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus.
This is slightly OT, but I remember sitting in 10th grade biology class and hearing the most fascinating conversation about the name “Destiny.” It went like this:
Teenage girl #1: “I think I’m pregnant.”
Teenage girl #2: “Oh, really? What are you going to name it?”
Teenage girl #1: “Justice if it’s a boy, Destiny if it’s a girl.”
Teenage girl #2: “Don’t do that: if you name a girl ‘Destiny,’ she’ll turn out fat.”
Teenage girl #1: “Oh yeah, I forgot about that.”
I never understood the logic of that conversation, and the two girls in question wore what I perceived at the time to be “Wal-Mart shoes,” so I couldn’t be seen speaking to them in public, thus I didn’t turn around and ask where their fat girl logic originated. Still, Destiny-as-a-fat-girl has stuck with me after all these years.
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January 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am
hahahahaha!!!! WAL-MART SHOES!!!!! i totally know what you mean!!!! ALYK YOU RULE!!!
January 30th, 2008 at 10:44 am
OMG you just threw me back to my high school days.
Thank God my kids aren’t. I know the pain that brings. (thanks to mean kids like you :P)
Unfortunately, I was a “Wal-Mart shoes” kid.
Oh and I’ve never heard of “Destiny-as-a-fat-girl” before. I’d love to know their logic.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I always thought Destiny was a stripper name, but I guess it could go fat or thin. Dawn and Claire, however, are DECIDEDLY fat girl names.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Destiny sounds like SHE would wear the Wal-Mart shoes, fat or not.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Destiny sounds more like a stripper with cheap tracks or a bad perm. And maybe a c-scar.
(I need to go to better strip joints.)
January 30th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Nah, Nomi, they’re pretty much all The Cheetah.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
My dad’s friend married a Chinese lady, and they named their kid “Destiny, Star of Beautiful Canada-land” but I don’t know how to say it in Chinese. She is SO FAT.
OT: they’ve always called her what sounds like “gow-pie” and that meand dog fart.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
So, Miley’s allowing the world to see her child…
January 30th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
the only destiny i’ve ever known was really fat.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:30 am
I have known a hot Claire, a smoking hot Dawn and a chick named Destiny who was a stripper… but used Mercedes as her nomme du pole.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Claire is a fat girl’s name. And Elliott is a kid who wears glasses and eats paste.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
that baby looks terrified!
i wouldn’t blame it ( the baby ) look what’s next to him.
i think it saw her teeth.