Lena Trzan, 19, Picks Psychology Over Production at FDU

Lena Trzan, 19, daughter of singer Goca Trzan, has enrolled in psychology, and her mother spoke about the choice in an interview with Grand. Lena is now a college freshman, and Goca revealed that her daughter originally had a different plan.

Why didn’t Lena enroll at FDU?

Lena wanted to study production at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU), but ended up choosing psychology. Goca explained to Grand how that came about, with a joke at her own expense:

“She is 19, a freshman, she enrolled in psychology, so I wish her lots of luck with that. She wanted to study production at FDU too, but a crazy mother who needs treatment won out, so she enrolled in psychology,” Goca Trzan told Grand.

According to Goca, Lena was torn between two faculties, and the decision went to psychology.

Mom, not Goca Trzan

Goca also talked about how her daughter sees her. Lena grew up with a mother who is a public figure, so it is nothing new to her, as the singer pointed out herself:

“She has lived with it her whole life, it’s part of her growing up, I’m not Goca Trzan to her, I’m just her mom,” Goca Trzan told Grand.

Will her daughter analyze her as a psychologist?

Near the end of the conversation, the singer was asked whether she is ready for Lena to analyze her one day from a psychologist’s point of view. She answered with a smile:

“I’ve had my diagnosis for a long time. What matters is that she has her own interests and that she fulfills herself the way she wants,” Goca Trzan told Grand.

Lena recently changed her surname

Lena recently made it official: she dropped the surname of her biological father, Ivan Marinkovic, and took her mother’s surname, Trzan. By her own account, the change was no news to those close to her, but Goca did not know when her daughter would go through with it. Lena described what the trip to the municipal office was like and how she told her mother what she had done:

“For my friends and family, changing my surname to Trzan is not news, it’s the realization of something I had been planning for years. My mom didn’t even know when I would do it… One day I went to the municipal office with a friend, and afterward we sat down and had coffee. Since I can’t keep a secret for long, after two or three days I told mom,” Lena Trzan said.

A ‘slap from the public’

Lena is active on social media, where she shares details from her private life. She admitted that this has brought sharp reactions and negative comments. She described what the experience was like once she opened her profiles:

“When I opened my social media profiles, I got a ‘slap from the public.’ It turned out that people are much crueler than I thought… Still, it’s certainly not easy, although people think it is. I believe the whole situation brought us closer as a family,” Lena Trzan said.

The 19-year-old first-year psychology student says herself that the public dealt her a hard blow, but also that her family came out of it closer than before. Goca, for her part, says what matters most to her is that her daughter has her own interests and fulfills herself the way she wants.