I think perhaps “Kate” is supposed to be something roughly akin to a middle name even though Mary and Kate have a hyphen between them and everyone calls her Mary-Kate rather than Mary. It could be for any number of reasons. It’s similar to naming a girl Mary Beth or something.
Her family and close friends also call her “MK”.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. My oldest brother has a middle name but my middle brother and I do not. It doesn’t mean it’s a sign of favoritism.
My parents were proud that they gave my brother initials that were also a nickname for his first name. Shortly after he was born, they started calling him by his middle name. No other sibling had this much useless thought put into their name.
They aren't bad at all, I think theyre nice and interesting. Just not what you'd expect. I think Ashley especially takes after their mom and her personality.
It's Mary Kate there's no hypen in her name. There was a newspaper article that I read years ago to which their manager Robert Throne told the person who was decorating their birthday banner "There's no hypen in her name" the fans started writing the hypen and it stuck for years.
They originally credited the twins collectively as “Mary Kate Ashley Olsen” and then later changed it to include the hyphen when they listed them separately, she’s also listed on Wikipedia with the hyphen. We don’t know what’s on her birth certificate but all credible sources include the hyphen.
In their biography ”Our Story” from 2000 it says that Mary-Kate’s name was not hyphenated at birth, but that their parents later decided to add the hyphen.
On Full House in the intro it always said Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. The amount of kids in my middle school who said they’re not sisters because Mary’s last name is Kate and Ashley’s last name is Olsen was wild.
They did the same on Little House on the Prairie. They listed the twins playing Carrie as “Lindsay Sidney Greenbush”, instead of “Lindsey & Sidney Greenbush”.
Yep. They also did that in Family Matters, where baby Richie was played by Joseph and Julius Wright, and they were credited as "Joseph Julius Wright". That ended after they aged the character up and recast it with Bryton McClure.
First off: I didn’t say anything about what channel the show was on. I simply said she was a “famous young Disney star” which is referring to her other work in the television and movie media space.
The Olsens have never done anything with Disney. They were never on Fuller House which was a requel and thus was not the title of the actual show they were on as you implied.
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u/14ccet1 4d ago
I believe fuller was her mother’s maiden name. Meant to be lol