Her full title is Jelena Noura.
She informed Vogue, “My mother was referred to as that [Gigi] as a child by her mom when she was youthful, however solely round the home. I used to be referred to as that round the home after I was actually younger, sort of like how my mother was referred to as it. In first or second grade, there was a woman named Helena, and it received complicated with the trainer who needed to name out our names, and so the trainer requested my mother, ‘If I wanted to name Jelena a nickname, what wouldn’t it be?’ And my mother was like, ‘I name her Gigi generally,’ and the title caught.”