Vogue Williams has opened up about why she has kept her maiden name throughout her eight-year marriage to Spencer Matthews. The Irish model and presenter, 40, who is pregnant with the couple's fourth child, made the confession during a recent episode of her podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me.
Speaking on the show, Williams revealed that her husband, 37, frequently asks her to take his surname. However, she explained that her previous experience of changing her name after marrying Westlife singer Brian McFadden in 2012, and then having to reverse it following their divorce in 2017, has made her reluctant to do so again.
"Also, I'm like, by the way, I love my name, Vogue Williams," she said. "And [Spencer]'s like, but you're not Vogue Williams, though." Williams added that she legally changed her surname to Wilson at the age of 17, when her mother Sandra married businessman Neil Wilson. Despite this, she continues to use Williams, the name she was born with.
The couple, who met while filming Channel 4's The Jump in Austria in January 2017, married at Spencer's family estate in Scotland in June 2018. Their three children – Theodore, seven, Gigi, five, and Otto, four – all bear the Matthews surname.
Williams has previously spoken candidly about the breakdown of her first marriage to McFadden, admitting she knew she had "made a mistake" on her wedding day. She recalled thinking she had "ruined her life" when she divorced at 31, but has since found happiness with Matthews.
