Lindsie Chrisley Addresses Recent Decision to Drop Family Surname in Favor of Her Boyfriend’s: ‘It Became Very Problematic’

Lindsie Chrisley is clearing the air about her recent name change.

In early July, the podcast host changed her name on Instagram to “Lindsie Landsman,” seemingly taking the last name of her boyfriend, David Landsman. Though her username is still @lindsiechrisley, the subtle switch — coupled with a “beach photoshoot” of the pair and Lindsie’s son Jackson, posted July 11 — led fans to believe that the 35-year-old star had quietly tied the knot. But that’s not the reason for the change, according to Lindsie.

On the July 16 episode of her podcast, The Southern Tea, the former reality star — who is currently estranged from parents Todd and Julie Chrisley — cleared up the rumors swirling online about her name and marital status.

After more people than she “ever even imagined” noticed the name change, which was intended to be a “quiet movement,” Lindsie said she felt compelled to explain to her podcast listeners and followers “why I made that choice.”

Over the years, Lindsie’s surname has gone from Chrisley to Campbell (after marrying ex-husband and Jackson’s dad Will Campbell) back to Chrisley and now, at least on social media, Landsman. Walking her listeners through this journey, she began, “For a long time, I very much battled with carrying my maiden last name, and with me carrying that last name came public association.”

The very well-known surname, Lindsie added, also came with “assumptions of all different kinds, weight that I truly feel like I never asked for.” 

“And I do think it’s fair to say that contrary to what some people believe, the Chrisley last name, while it did start with [reality show] Chrisley Knows Best — and we all collectively were doing that project together — outside of that, that last name did not create income or opportunity for me,” she continued.

“In fact,” the Southern Tea host claimed, the Chrisley name actually “became very problematic with me being associated in any capacity, in business, and has been problematic for projects that I have done post-Chrisley Knows Best.”

According to Lindsie, the last name has even caused her to lose business opportunities. She also claimed that in certain scenarios, she has previously “been asked to go by another name altogether.”

Lindsie “was married all the way up until I left [Chrisley Knows Best], and so my name was reflective of a Campbell up until that point,” she continued. “And after my divorce, I did return to my maiden name, Chrisley, because that’s just what I knew to do.”

“It wasn’t because it felt necessarily right,” she added of embracing the Chrisley name again post-split. “It was just truly what was left. It was a name that I was born with, and it did no longer feel like mine. But what am I supposed to do?”

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As for the recent switch to her boyfriend’s name, Lindsie said that it “is not a long and drawn-out situation.” Rather, she said, “It truly was a decision that I made about reclaiming my peace and stepping into my future, that is defined by love, growth over the past couple of years, and just forward movement.”

“You know, the big question is: ‘Is David and I married?’ And we are not married,” she continued. “I feel that it is fair to say that he and I built a safe and loving relationship that allows for stability in my life and in Jackson’s life, and in this chapter, that name feels like home to me.”

“It has nothing to do with erasing my past,” she said of the new surname. “It is all about choosing my future and protecting the people that I love most while doing so. And it felt like it was the right thing to do.”

And, “if and when” she does get married, Lindsie has no plans to keep things under wraps. “I would absolutely share that information so freely,” she told her Southern Tea listeners, “to those who have supported me.”

Lindsie’s comments come after her father, Todd Chrisley, and stepmother, Julie Chrisley, were released from prison after President Donald Trump granted them full pardons in May. At the time, Lindsie appeared to comment on the pair’s release, simply writing on her Instagram Stories that “with God all things are possible.”