"People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper"
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The joke lands because the options aren’t random; they’re a tight cultural spectrum of female archetypes. “Actress” is the sanctioned version of performance, “superhero” is the fantasy upgrade (power, invulnerability, brandable mythology), and “stripper” is the stigmatized cousin (still performance, still labor, but treated as moral content). By stacking them side by side, Jones needles the way society sorts women into boxes based on a name, a look, a rumor - then assigns status accordingly. It’s not just wordplay; it’s a critique of the gaze.
There’s also a winking self-awareness about stage names and reinvention, a long Hollywood tradition often framed as either savvy branding or suspicious deception. Jones implies: sure, I could have changed it, but your certainty says more about your appetite for a “before” story than about my actual life. The subtext is control. She’s reclaiming the narrative by making the narrative ridiculous, reminding you that a persona is something the public consumes, not something it truly knows.
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Jones, January. (2026, January 17). People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-think-that-i-changed-my-name-i-couldve-49753/
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"People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-think-that-i-changed-my-name-i-couldve-49753/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.




