Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean supports daughter, 9, ‘a million percent’ in changing name from Ava to Elliott

AJ McLean vowed to assist his daughters it doesn't matter what (Image: @aj_mclean)

AJ McLean has opened up about his nine-year-old daughter’s resolution to alter her title from Ava to Elliott and his unwavering assist for her making her personal resolution. 

The Backstreet Boys star, 44, revealed he and his spouse Rochelle are totally supportive of his daughter however that the title change shouldn't be as a result of she is transgender however reasonably that it's her ‘private selection’ to go by Elliott. 

He defined to Individuals: ‘When my daughter requested to alter her title to Elliott, initially, I didn’t know if it was a transgender factor, which it isn't, however it's a private selection. 

‘And it's her physique, it’s her title, it’s her all the things. And he or she’s nonetheless Ava. She’ll at all times be Ava to me.

‘However on the similar time, no matter reasoning it's, that’s hers, and I’m going to assist it one million p.c, my spouse will [too].’

AJ revealed that his nine-year-old hadn’t been completely satisfied going by Ava as a result of it's ‘not that distinctive and never that unique’, and she or he had met a number of ladies with the identical title at her faculty and dance lessons. 

AJ’s eldest daughter didn’t assume Ava was a singular title (Image: Instagram/@aj_mclean)

He added: ‘She simply completed watching Pete’s Dragon, and she or he liked the title Elliot, however with two Ts. Now it simply rolls off the tongue. Now she’s Elliott.’

In addition to Elliott, AJ and Rochelle have one other daughter, Lyric, 5, and have vowed to assist them in no matter choices they make of their lives. 

He added: ‘No matter journey each my ladies have, I shall be of their nook one million per cent, my spouse shall be of their nook and assist them, no matter their path is and no matter their journey is. That’s simply the household that we're.’

Rochelle beforehand opened up about Elliott’s title change, telling her followers on Instagram: ‘For these asking … not that it’s anybody’s enterprise however Elliott’s title change shouldn't be a gender factor.

‘’Ava’ has modified her title fairly a couple of occasions since she was about 5. Final yr she requested us to start out calling her Elliot and it caught. She wished one thing distinctive that nobody else had. (There are such a lot of Avas.)’