Did you know that Kris Jenner’s maiden name was Kristen Mary Houghton? I didn’t know that! Kristen Mary is such a normal name. When Kris married Robert Kardashian, she became Kris Kardashian. But by the time anyone paid attention to her, she was already married to then-Bruce Jenner and she had changed her name to Kris Jenner. And even after Kris and then-Bruce divorced, Kris has stayed a Jenner, although there have been rumors for years that Kris wants to change her name. But instead of going back to her maiden name and rebranding herself as Kris Houghton, Kris wants to go back to Kris Kardashian. That’s what she tells Khloe in this “deleted scene” from KUWTK.
Kris tells Khloe that she often uses the name “Kris Kardashian” to get tables at restaurants, I guess, and when Khloe is like “WTF?” Kris announces: “I’m going to change my name back to Kardashian.” Khloe says: “Why? You haven’t been that in over 24 years.” And Kris says: “I was that before you were that. I was the original Kardashian….If Bruce can change his name to Caitlyn, I think I’m good.” Which is gross. Bruce changed her name to Caitlyn because she transitioned. Kris wants to change her name back to her first husband’s last name because she’s a famewhore who believes more doors will open to her with the Kardashian name.
Now, all that being said… my mother kept my dad’s name after they divorced and I asked her once why she didn’t go back to her maiden name, and she had her reasons. One, she liked my dad’s name and she felt it suited her. Plus, I think she didn’t want the hassle of changing her name back to her maiden. I think it’s worth pointing out that in Kris’s case, Robert Kardashian divorced HER after he found out that she was cheating. He didn’t want her to carry his name any longer, did he?
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Just officially change it to Satan to cut out the middleman.
Yes! Hahaha Satanian☆
My top choice.
She is satan. I’m reading about her business school scam. What a POS.
Ha! Awesome.
Krakenian. Have to find a way of spelling satan with a K.
My mom kept my dad’s last name after they divorced, but just because she couldn’t be bothered to go through the legal stuff to switch back to her maiden name (lol). That said, she does go by her maiden name in public, for the most part, and refers to herself with her maiden name too.
Of course, nothing Kris Houghton Kardashian Jenner Diablo Mephistopheles etc etc does would surprise me nowadays. It’s all about staying in the spotlight.
I kept my exes name, too. Once you remarry you shouldn’t be allowed to take back the name of your previous husband. She could go back to her maiden name, but that wouldn’t generate any publicity. I don’t think she should take back the name of a now deceased man who divorced her because of her cheating.
Does she really believe the Jenner name isn’t as well known as Kardashian?
This is from a “recycled” old script. She has mentioned this on her show before, years ago. I guess they are running out of storylines. I think this would be a slap in the face to her two youngest daughters. It’s not like she respected the last name as she cheated on HIM. Not to mention the last name Kardashian has sh*t all over it and I truly feel sorry for any “normal” people who have that last name. How was she the original “Kardashian”? LOL ok I guess all those Armenian women with that name don’t count?
That pic of her next to Kendall…looks like she’s wearing one of Kim’s old dresses lol !
So true. She was ALWAYS so disrespectful to Bruce, and it WOULD be disrespectful to her two daughters by him. She’s nothing but a famewhore. I have nothing but total contempt for her.
My mother got married three times. My dad was her first husband. She kept his name until we were out of the house because she wanted to have the same last name of her kids. After we left she changed it to her husband’s name.
She hated my dad, for real. But she loved us more.
Yes, most of my divorced friends kept their ex’s last name because they wanted the same last name as their children no matter how much they hated their ex. myncousin kept her ex’s even after she got married but changed it to her now husband’s name because the kids are grown and gone.
Same here – I kept my ex-husband’s last name after my divorce because my kids have that name and because I reached a certain level of professional success with my married name and don’t want to have to rebrand with my maiden name. I think it makes my boyfriend uncomfortable though,
Similar here, I kept my ex-husbands name, since it was my children´s name and after my 2nd marriage, I added my husbands name to my old name.
My husband didn´t like it and I explained to him that all this different names are so confusing.
First, old last name, identifying my children; second, adding new name, identifying my husband.
I’m glad I gave my kids both last names. No hyphen, though some insist on putting it in there. Two last names aren’t too much, and kids have the choice to use whatever they like as they get older.
That makes sense but she has two kids named Jenner. Taking her maiden name is fine, but how would that not be hurtful to her younger children to drop their name for her older children’s name?
Hey, maybe they’ll change their names to Kardashian too.
I think, it would be hurtful for the Jenner´s kids.
But then, Kardashian brand name must have always been hurtful to the Jenner´s kids. Their father was an Olympic gold winner and was always downplaid ref the Kardashian fame based on a realty show and Kim´s porn tape.
Bettyrose: Her maiden name is Houghton. She only became a Kardashian in her first marriage and was Jenner most of her adult life. This is something I have never heard of before in my life. As I mentioned down thread, I believe she wants to cling to those youthful years and become her daughter’s sister. Takes a minute to absorb that absurd thought, but on SNL they do a skit about it. She’s a wackadoodle.
Sorry Nancy, my post was worded a little strangely but I didn’t mean to equate Kardashian with her maiden name. I simply meant that taking her maiden name (as others were discussing) would be fine, but using Kardashian comes with numerous problems.
“She hated my dad, for real. But she loved us more.”
Same here. I hate my ex-husband for breaking my nose and cheating on me, but I kept my married name because we have an adopted daughter together, even though he disavows her and mentions only a wonderful dog that he and his almost 20-years-younger current wife have.
I am sorry that your x husband hurt you, my sister had an abusive relationship as well., It takes time and I am glad you are above all his crap.
My mom did that as well–well three out of her five kids had her last name….and when she got married, she considered changing it to my dad’s last name, but she didn’t want us (the three older kids) to be the only ones in the house with that last name…….
The only reason I would temporarily keep my husband’s name after a divorce would be if I had minor children. Otherwise, good riddance.
I understand that Kardashian is her brand, but she is no longer a Kardashian. Robert must be rolling in his grave. I wonder if his kids will be protective of their dad and object.
Is there a legal way they can stop her, or no? I guess anyone can change their name to anything they want, right?
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Princess Consuela Bananahammock.
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There are often bits in divorce papers about this.
Plenty of women keep their married name after divorced. But going back to the first divorced ex-husband’s name has no logic. If it’s about changing the name because no longer married, then obvious choice is her maiden name, not another dude’s name she divorced also. Who is not even alive. That’s just all around desperate and weird.
But the first husband’s last name is the brand. It’s not about the divorce at all, just about the $$$. I wonder if she would change it back if Robert were still alive.
I always believed Kris knew about Bruce Jenners proclivities when they married. I think she was fine as long as he kept it private. Bruce transitioning into Caitlyn threw her for a loop. Here was something out of her control and I don’t think Kris deals well when she is not running the show. I think she is embarrassed to carry the Jenner name. I agree with Khloe that Kris is being disrespectful to Kylie and Kendall. Changing her name back to Kardashian gives her the opportunity to give Caitlyn the middle finger. Forever. Like it or not the Kardashian is a brand and there is no way she’s letting loose of that cash cow.
Yes, to all of this.
But Kendall and Kylie are the future of that “brand” and they are Jenners. I just think Kris is mad that Chyna is going to use the name Kardashian lol.
Kris is all business and it’s all about the Kardashian brand – which she pimped and clawed and manipulated to build and which she loves more than anything. I don’t think Kendall and Kylie will care at this point – their big lives and their big money come from the Kardashian brand. I do think she’s been Kris Jenner for so long that people will continue to refer to her as Kris Jenner.
Ironically, both I think both Kylie and Kendall wanted to go by their first names only, so they want to drop the Jenner, too.
Going back to an ex-husband’s name, who remarried by the time he died, when she has two daughters named Jenner, whatever.
I’m sure it’s all about the brand.
Of course. But at this point, will anyone call her “Kris Kardashian”? We know her as Kris Jenner or Pimp Mama Kris, or Lucifer’s homegirl. LOL that ain’t gonna change.
One of the people in this photo looks remotely human, lol. Kim can barely move her face anymore or smile properly due to all the botox and surgery. And she’s not 35 yet. Can’t wait to see how she’ll fare when she turns 40.
My ex-husband took MY name when we married, and he kept it after we divorced so my daughter would still have the same last name as both her parents. I think it’s nice that he kept it.
I really like that, it’s rare for men to take their partners names, and sweet that he kept it for your daughter.
Yeah just change it to Lucifer. Has a nice ring to it don’t it? Kris Lucifer? It’s probably just me.
These things can be tricky. Remember when Usher was getting remarried and asked his ex wife and mother of his children (Tameka Raymond) to drop his surname Raymond because he’s ready to move on now Yada yada. I thought it was a douche move but if Kardashian Snr were alive, this is a douche move I would love from him
Robert Kardashian must be rolling in his grave so much at this point that it’s like he’s on a rotisserie.
Bobby Kardashian kicked her to the curb for infidelity. I believe the current Mrs. Kardashian (the widow) would object to this – considering they harrassed her when she released some of Bobby’s diaries.
Bobby Kardashian is probably rolling in his grave.
I mean, she can object all she wants, but legally I could go change my name to Kardashian too, if I wanted.
Don’t know if the US is the same but a Judge can deny a name-change request for some reasons.
Meh, she’s made Kardashian into a brand that really has nothing to do with Robert. She’s earned it IMO, if I had an opinion.
I agree. I don’t care for her as a person, but this is more about her branding. Celebs are all about branding. I see no harm. It was her name at one point for quite a long time.
That poor man must be rolling in his grave..
I agree. He seemed like a decent man who had morals which is probably why the marriage ended in the first place. She took another name which her two youngest have as well. She is making a mockery of marriage and of Robert, Sr. As you said he is probably rolling in the grave wishing he could jump out and demand she let him and his name rest in peace. This women pi$$es me off to no end, 60 year old troll. AND, I might add looking at the pic of her, her left eye is pulled so tight she can barely keep it open. Put her in a home!
I dunno about all that. Maybe a great family man. But I wouldn’t call him decent.
Decent in comparison to the family he produced. His moral compass fell off the map with the OJ debacle. I think, although don’t know, he thought his best friend was innocent in the beginning. That’s the way normal brain functions, you don’t want to believe someone who is your friend could be such a monster. As time went on, he saw the light and passed away soon after.
Women often keep their exes names for matters of convenience or for their children. Well her Kardashian “children” are all over thirty, two of them closing in on 40. Her younger children have the last name Jenner, the name of the man she was married to for over 25 years. To get a table at a restaurant my ass, that name would scare them off. She is doing it for one reason alone, to be the fourth Kardashian sister. She is insane….but we all know that.
Yes divorced women may keep their exes surname but how many go on to marry another man, change their surname to the new spouse’s and then try to change it back to the first spouse’s?
That sounds dumb!
Kris brought this up years ago while still married to Bruce and you could see he was upset by it. Wanting to change her name to her dead ex-husband’s to ‘solidify their brand’….. wha?
And at that time, Kendall and Kylie were both underage!
She said it was weird that she managed Kardashians but her name was Jenner… No honey, what’s weird is having your mother as your manager! And one who wants to try be just like you and even steal your name!
Taking a spouse’s last name seems silly to me. Why should a person’s name change just because they got married? Eh, I don’t know. Don’t care. Personal choice.
But the idea that it is what a woman is *supposed* to do is ridiculous.
I agree. It’s as if you are becoming your husband’s “property” or something. Also, the fact that YOU are the one carrying the child for 9 months and doing most of the child-caring but yet the child doesn’t get to have your last name. It’s like you don’t even count. More women should keep their maiden names…and just hyphenate the child’s last name or something. I don’t know.
It’s actually forbidden to legally take your spouse’s name where I live, and it’s been this way since the 80’s. With the divorce rates, the fact that, ya know, women are not considered minors or the property of their father and husbands anymore, it’s just so much simpler from a legal point of view to keep whatever last name you had when you were born. There are of course exceptions, if you prove that your father was abusive for instance, but even then, you’ll be ask to take your mother’s name and not your spouse. Some people get mad about this, claiming it affects personal traditions, but I really like the law and the fact that the state sticks to it no matter what. Plus I work in Academia, where your publications are all that matters, and because of that, the choice of your “public” name is of extreme importance; you can’t keep changing your name if you want people to be able to follow your publications and know that you were indeed the author of a certain paper: keeping your “maiden” name just makes sense.
I do however get why you’d give the father’s name to the kids: women carry them, we know they are ours because they (usually) come out of our body, no doubt about filiation. For men, giving their last name is a way to claim filiation, and I think it’s kind of sweet. I used to think about giving my last name alongside my partner’s to the kids I don’t have yet, since my dad was an only child and it’d it’d keep the name alive. But then I realized the extend of how completely screwed up that side of the family was and has been for a few generations and I’ll be glad to burry that name with me and have my kids only have their dad’s name, hopefully it’ll break the “curse”…
Interesting conversation. A lot of my female friends in my profession got married in our mid 30s. Most of us either legally or socially changed our last names. Socially, I am under my husband’s last name; professionally and legally I’m under my maiden name. Satan’s consort Kris should just shoot for her demon surname.🙄
My future mother-in-law kept her married last name but….. get this, changed her first name! Who knows the exact reason why, but my fiance’s stepmom has been bitter about that for 20 years!
This is a ridiculous, fame-whorey thing to do, but what else do we expect from Kris?
I kept my married name when I divorced my ex husband because a) my kids had the same name and they were very young (1 and 5) and it was easier while they were in school etc b) I like the name better than my maiden name) c) it’s really expensive to change all your ID! And d) my ex hates that I still have his name and after everything he has put me through it’s a tiny little revenge thing I like to hug to myself! 😉
This is different though, because I’ve had this name for 27 years now (longer than I had my maiden name) and haven’t had any other name. Kris has.
Donna, thanks for the honesty. Lots of ex wives think like you but pretend keeping their ex’s surname is just about the practical reasons.
Is Kris wearing some sort of strange toe-less pantyhose in that pic with her in the black mini dress? God help me, but I clicked on the pic to see it larger – and indeed she appears to be wearing pantyhose on her legs, but when you look at her toes, no pantyhose toes. Where do they stop? I hate myself for wondering or even caring, but there you go – that is the magic of the Kardashians.
Check yourself into some kind of brain cleansing center immediately! There must be a steam cleaner for this kind of thing…just make sure it’s only used on brains and not Vs.
@ladyjane
I don’t think she’s wearing pantyhose. Looks like a shiny self tanner/oil…and it’s not usually applied to the toe area.
Just a bunch of malarkey for the sake of a story, Her name is known whether she goes by Jenner or Kardashian. She isn’t changing it now. She’ll stick with Jenner as that’s what she got famous using and all her business docs say.