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31st Jan 2014

What a Sexy lady: Woman wants to legally change her name to ‘Sexy’

This lady's middle name should be sexy...but she's actually trying to change it to her first name

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This lady’s middle name should be sexy…but she’s actually trying to change it to her first name

Let’s be honest, we’ve all toyed with the idea of changing our name to something incredibly cool (Optimus Prime, anyone?) but our better judgement eventually helped us to make the right decision and stick with the name our parents gave us, JOE Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo.

However, one woman in Licking County, Ohio (we are not making that name up) wants to change her name from Sheila to Sexy (again, we’re not making that up), and is pressing ahead with plans to get the courts to make it official.

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Ranea Crabtree, who doesn’t like to use her first name Sheila as she feels it doesn’t suit her, told Fox 8 in Cleveland that she had decided to do it without telling anyone (even her husband) and didn’t expect that people would find out about it.

However, as part of the application process, you have to publish a notice in the paper stating that you intend to change your name and what your new moniker will be, and after that she began receiving calls from local newspapers and media outlets, and the story has since gone viral.

The decision is expected from a judge on February 11th as to whether they can call her Sexy or not, but she said that even if she’s denied, she’ll apply again with a different suggestion, hinting that ‘Sparkle’ might be next on the list.