"I believed Cherilyn was my name": Cher was "shocked" discovering her legal name before changing it
The memoir traces the first half of her life, including how she got her legal name. Cher was born in 1946 in El Centro, California to Georgia Holt, a young, struggling actress, who endured a long, unmedicated labor. "She was exhausted by the time I arrived at around 7:30 a.m. on Monday, May 20," Cher wrote.