{"id":45907,"date":"2026-02-16T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=45907"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:47:53","slug":"the-tragic-reason-love-is-blinds-alex-henderson-was-forced-to-change-his-first-and-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/16\/the-tragic-reason-love-is-blinds-alex-henderson-was-forced-to-change-his-first-and-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The tragic reason Love Is Blind’s Alex Henderson was forced to change his first and last name"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out that Love Is Blind cast member Alex Henderson<\/a> actually had his name changed when his was younger, and there’s a tragic reasoning behind it.<\/p>\n

When Alex was born he was named as Alex Henderson, but when he was two years old his mother, Kristen, remarried, with his birth father leaving his life entirely.<\/p>\n

After his mother remarried, his new stepdad wanted to legally adopt Alex but asked him to legally change his name to Alec Ferrell, with Alex’s mother agreeing to the name change.<\/p>\n

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Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, the new marriage didn’t go smoothly for either Kristen or Alex, with her being in constant “fight or flight” whilst he claimed that he stepdad would “lock him in the basement.”<\/p>\n

Kristen appeared on Alex’s Play Life Beautifully podcast<\/a> to open up about the name change, saying: “When you were adopted it was the worst day of your life, I\u2019m sure, that\u2019s when you became Alec Ferrell.”<\/p>\n

She explained that the name change was made by the courts, saying: “He was adopting you to make it official. I remember when you had that, \u2018Oh my gosh, I\u2019m not his biological son.’<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the whole time through the adoption process, I said to you, \u2018John is not your dad but we\u2019re going to go through a legal ceremony to become a Ferrell.'”<\/p>\n

Kristen and Alex’s stepdad eventually divorced, and six years ago Alex decided to change his name back from Alec to Alex.<\/p>\n

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Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He explained his reasoning for reverting back to his birth name later in his podcast, saying: “I want to reclaim what I had. Obviously I do reclaim my birth name, it\u2019s more important for me.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not even about reclaiming Henderson for my father\u2019s biological last name. It\u2019s what I was born as. This is what I want to build my name off of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want the Ferrell name attached to me. I don\u2019t want something I\u2019ve changed into. I want to reclaim what I had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is absolutely heartbreaking <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":45925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1528,1438],"class_list":["post-45907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-love-is-blind","tag-netflix"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/16\/the-tragic-reason-love-is-blinds-alex-henderson-was-forced-to-change-his-first-and-last-name\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The tragic reason Love Is Blind’s Alex Henderson was forced to change his first and last name","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/16\/the-tragic-reason-love-is-blinds-alex-henderson-was-forced-to-change-his-first-and-last-name\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/16\/the-tragic-reason-love-is-blinds-alex-henderson-was-forced-to-change-his-first-and-last-name\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-02-16T094306.055-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-02-16T094306.055.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["love is blind","netflix"],"dateCreated":"2026-02-16T09:47:53Z","datePublished":"2026-02-16T09:47:53Z","dateModified":"2026-02-16T09:47:53Z"},"rendered":"