After all, she believes the world needs to be filled with “more personality.”
“People deserve a space to express themselves and I’m happy that people look to me as an inspiration to do that,” she continued. “Success looks different to different people and means different things to different people.”
When it comes to personal identity, Alisa isn’t the only celebrity teaching the world the correct pronunciation of her name. Last month, Marvel Star Simu Liu As for his last name, he admitted, “I call myself ‘Li Yu,’ and it’s not that difficult.”
He noted that, like Olympians, different announcements often rely on being easy for others to remember.
“I feel like a lot of Liu grew up in a non-Asian environment. They called me ‘Lou’ for clarity, because it’s easier to say and it’s better than nothing, right?” he explained in his Instagram post “You definitely have to get that right, you — he is,” he said at the time, before playfully criticizing people’s approach to his first name.
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