Mother’s surname Beyoncé is actually Beyoncé | Entertainment

entertainment">“A lot of people don’t know that my maiden name is Beyoncé. I was born Celestine Beyoncé, which was definitely not a ‘cool’ name at the time. I preferred to be called Linda Smith because that was a common and accepted name, ”said Tina.

entertainment">The mother of Beyoncé in Solange owes her current surname to her two husbands: Matthew Knowles, whom she was married to from 1980 to 2011, and her current husband Richard Lawson, whom she married in 2015.

entertainment">According to Tina, her original surname Beyoncé is spelled differently by family members. “My brother Skip and I always wrote it as Beyoncé, but others wrote it as Beyince.”

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