Why Laguna Seashore’s Lauren Olsen No Longer Goes By Alex H.

Coming clear. Laguna Seashore star Lauren Olsen (née Hooser) used to go by “Alex H.” on the hit MTV collection — however she not goes by the moniker.

The California native, who was born Lauren Hooser, shared that when she first moved to Laguna Seashore as a 9-year-old, she selected to go by her center identify, Alexandria, along with her mother and father’ approval.

“So after I registered for varsity, I glided by Alexandria, and that was after I was about, like, 10 years previous,” she solely informed Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 1. “After which from there on out, I glided by Alex.”

The change within the TV character’s identify had nothing to do with the quantity of Laurens on the truth present. Laguna Seashore additionally featured Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth — whose identify can be Lauren.

“MTV didn’t make me go by Alex [because] there [were] too many Laurens,” she clarified. “It simply occurred by probability, and I do know it may be so complicated. I’ve, like, three totally different names, however my identify generally by beginning has been Lauren.”

When Laguna Seashore premiered in 2004, the present centered on the non-public lives of then-high schoolers Stephen Colletti, Conrad, Kristin Cavallari, Bosworth and extra. The unique premise was to be a highschool drama, however the present was not allowed to movie inside the highschool, so the main target shifted to the forged’s dwelling lives.

Beginning on November 11, the primary two seasons of the present will probably be accessible to look at on Netflix with its spinoff The Hills arriving to the streaming service’s catalog a month later.

Olsen joined the forged of the MTV present due to her shut friendship with Cavallari, who she nonetheless retains up with to at the present time. She was lately a visitor on The Hills alum’s podcast with Colletti, “Again to the Seashore.” The pair rewatch previous episodes of the present and mirror on what occurred.

She additionally stays near her castmate Alex Murrel and was even a bridesmaid in her wedding ceremony. For her half, Olsen can be married and relocated up north to Santa Cruz, California. She has two kids and her household simply adopted a canine.

Since her departure from actuality TV, Olsen has gone again to utilizing her authentic moniker along with her family members.

“After the actual fact, my household nonetheless known as me Lauren, so I simply gravitated again to that,” she shared with Us. “Additionally it was type of a pleasant little shell to be like, no, I’m Lauren now. Like Alex H. is completed … however perhaps coming again.”