""My husband was amazing and made it very clear he wouldn't be offended if I didn't want to take his last name," Glasscock tells TODAY.com. "But I thought about it for a while, and it was really important to me that we have the same last name for our future kids.""
""To this day six years later, this glass chicken sits on my desk," she said in the clip. "It is the best thing I have ever received. I will cherish it for the rest of my life.""
""Normally, at the end of the year, I have a bunch of kids running up to me giggling and being like, 'That's your last name?!'" Glasscock tells TODAY."
Jordyn Glasscock married and adopted her husband's surname over winter break, then returned to middle school anticipating negative reactions. A seventh grader presented a wrapped gift and announced he bought it "because you got married and changed your name," prompting initial dread and fears about her career. The gift—a glass chicken—became a treasured keepsake that sits on her desk. To minimize teasing, she presents herself to students as "Mrs. G," with most pupils only discovering her full surname through the yearbook. Her husband, Steven, experienced similar childhood teasing about his name.
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