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What do you think of when you hear the nickname "KNB"?  One friend told me it makes her think of the name of a rock band.  Another person said he thought it was very cutsie!  It started when the cast of my shows called me KNB to save time!  I really liked it, because I thought it was friendly yet professional.  It brought to my mind "Karen National Bank"!  I thought it was somehow dignified at the same time, like JFK, LBJ, or FDR.  I can't think of any women known by their initials, so in order to join the ranks of Cher and Madonna, and all the other one-name women, I thought I'd settle on "KNB."  I love the name Karen, and I love the name KNB, so you can call me whatever pleases you!  
      Here are my names... I was born Karen Jane Nelson.  In junior high school, the teacher asked what our nicknames were, and I didn't have one, so I made it up on the spot.  "Vicki" Nelson was my name all through the rest of my school years.  When schoolmates called on the phone and asked for Vicki, Dad would say there wasn't anyone by that name!
     I took a stage name in 1968, Kelly Stevens.  I loved the name Kelly, and my agent gave me the name Stevens.  I was Kelly Stevens until 1977, when a record producer asked me to change back to Karen Nelson.  (I had a popular band called "Kelly Stevens: Carnival.")
      In 1969, I married and became Karen Nelson Caviola.  I married again in 1984 and became Karen Nelson Bell.  I married again to the love of my life, my hero, the late Duncan Guertin, and became Karen Nelson Guertin.

SO:  First names: Karen, Vicki, Kelly; middle names: Jane; Last names: Nelson, Stevens, Caviola, Bell, Guertin.

Does that make my name "Karen Vicki Kelly Jane Nelson Stevens Caviola Bell Guertin"?  No, I guess I'll stick with Karen Nelson Bell... it has a nice ring to it!  Karen Bell... Ma Bell... KNB!

I think of my last name as Bell, not Nelson Bell, and there's no hyphen to be seen!


 

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