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Sunny Leone, born Karenjit Kaur Vohra to an Indian Sikh family living in Canada, changed her name to Sunny Leone after she started working in thee adult entertainment industry in the early 2000s. She moved to India about a decade later, and established herself as an actor after appearing in the reality show, Bigg Boss. She was offered a movie role while she was still in the Bigg Boss house in 2011, and this marked the beginning of her journey in Bollywood.
But Sunny revealed in a recent interview how she got her stage name.
“I was in the US doing an interview for a magazine and they said, ‘What do you want your name to be?’ I couldn’t think of anything at that moment. I was working at a tax and retirement firm and I worked for the HR department, accounting department, and another agent. I helped with all these things, and then I was also a receptionist,” shared Sunny during Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist series.
She went on to add, “So, I was doing the interview in this place and I knew I had to get off the phone soon and get back to work, because I would get caught. And they were like ‘what would you like your name to be’ and I said, ‘Use Sunny as my first name, and then you can pick the last name’.”
The actor shared, “Sunny is my brother’s nickname. His name is Sandeep Singh, we call him Sunny. My mom hated that I named myself Sunny. She said, ‘Out of all the names, that’s the one you pick?’ I was like, yeah, it’s just what came to my mind… And then the magazine picked the last name and I just kept it,” she added.
Sunny shared that her second name ‘Leone’ was given by the Italian owner of the magazine she was interviewed by. She added, ” I was just 19, I got to know about this second name after it got published.”
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