All of a sudden my iphone is sending text messages from my email address instead of my phone number?

My phone is sending my text messages from my email address, not from my phone number.  How do I fix this?

what if I only can choose the email address which I can delete and I also have an out of states number because I used my phone back home and now Im back in the states and I cannot get it back to my US cell number its just set at my email and I want to change it...HELP!

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