Vogue Williams has opened up about why she has refused to take her husband Spencer Matthews' surname throughout their eight-year marriage. The 40-year-old Irish model and TV presenter, who is expecting her fourth child with the former Made in Chelsea star, made the admission on her podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me.
She explained that the 'difficult' experience of changing her name after her first marriage to Westlife's Brian McFadden, which ended in divorce in 2017, has left her reluctant to do it again. 'I have a track record, and it's very difficult to change your name. And then to change everything back,' she said.
Williams, who has been married to Matthews since 2018, also revealed that she loves her current name. However, she admitted that 'Vogue Williams' is not her legal surname—she is actually Vogue Wilson, having taken her stepfather Neil Wilson's name at age 17. 'I use Williams because I was Williams when I was born,' she clarified.
Despite her refusal, the couple's three children—Theodore, seven, Gigi, five, and Otto, four—all carry the Matthews surname. Williams and Matthews met on the set of Channel 4's The Jump in 2017 and married at his family's estate in Scotland the following year.
