She told Vogue, “My mom was called that [Gigi] as a kid by her mother when she was younger, but only around the house. I was called that around the house when I was really young, kind of like how my mom was called it. In first or second grade, there was a girl named Helena, and it got confusing with the teacher who had to call out our names, and so the teacher asked my mom, ‘If I needed to call Jelena a nickname, what would it be?’ And my mom was like, ‘I call her Gigi sometimes,’ and the name stuck.” Savae is a Matai title (chief title) bestowed upon him by Moata’a, his village in Samoa. Skeet is a nickname he got from a Little League coach who thought he was quick like a mosquito. When he was a baby, his mom nicknamed him Spike because she thought he was tough. Mars is a stage name, but he got the nickname Bruno as a toddler because his family thought he looked like Bruno Sammartino, a famous wrestler.
