Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean addressed his daughter’s recent name change and proclaimed his support.
McLean’s wife, Rochelle, shared her daughter’s new name, Elliott, with her 86,000-plus followers on Instagram last month. Elliott is 9 years old and going into the fourth grade.
“When my daughter asked to change her name to Elliott, initially, I didn’t know if it was a transgender thing, which it is not, but it is a personal choice,” McLean reported. “But at the same time, whatever reasoning it is, that’s hers, and I’m going to support it a million percent, my wife will [too].”
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“For those asking … not that it’s anyone’s business but Elliott’s name change is not a gender thing,” McLean’s wife wrote on her Instagram story following her original August post. She claimed Elliott had tested a few different names, but her parents began calling her Elliott last year, noting, “She wanted something unique that no one else had (There are so many Ava’s). I didn’t really see the harm in respecting her desire to be unique.”
