Her full title is Jelena Noura.
She instructed Vogue, “My mother was known as that [Gigi] as a child by her mom when she was youthful, however solely round the home. I used to be known as that round the home once I was actually younger, sort of like how my mother was known as it. In first or second grade, there was a woman named Helena, and it acquired complicated with the instructor who needed to name out our names, and so the instructor requested my mother, ‘If I wanted to name Jelena a nickname, what wouldn’t it be?’ And my mother was like, ‘I name her Gigi typically,’ and the title caught.”
