"Call me Caitlin!"
The former decathlete and stepfather of model Kim Kardashian, Bruce Jenner, who became a woman, appeared on the cover of the June issue of Vanity Fair in a new look. At the end of April, the 65-year-old Olympic champion and father of six children admitted that he underwent a sex change operation. And on June 6, a new issue of Vanity Fair magazine will go on sale, in which readers are waiting for a big interview and photo shoot of Bruce Jenner, who now insists on being called Caitlin.
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On June 1, the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair appeared on the Internet, the heroine of which was Caitlyn Jenner - this is the name chosen by Bruce Jenner, who recently underwent complex sex change operations.
65-year-old Jenner posed for the famous photographer Anne Leibovitz, appearing on the pages of the magazine in an elegant and feminine way. In an interview with the publication, Caitlin said that the decision to change sex was caused by an internal need, and not by a desire to attract public attention.
Bruce Jenner is the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion.
Before the sex change, Bruce Jenner became the decathlon champion at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He took gold after the Soviets won the decathlon (as well as basketball and 100m) in 1972. The won first place made Jenner famous.
Bruce Jenner in the 90s.
After the Olympics, the athlete decided to use his popularity on television and in advertising. Bruce Jenner was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986, the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame and the Connecticut Sports Hall of Fame in 1994. After completing his sports career, he actively starred in television.
In April of this year, Jenner, 65, revealed that he had struggled with gender identity since childhood, but no longer wants to live a lie.
Bruce Jenner announced his sex change at the end of this April in an interview with Diana Sawyer. According to Jenner, he has been interested in dressing up as a woman for many years, even trying on women's clothing several times. So, he said that at the age of seven or eight years he secretly dressed in the dresses of his mother or sister. And since the 1980s, he began to conduct hormone therapy to prepare the body for a sex change.
Caitlyn Jenner broke Barack Obama's Twitter record.
Appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair, Jenner broke the record for the time to reach 1 million followers on Twitter: she gained a million subscribers in 4 hours and 4 minutes. She signed up on the social network on June 1, after posting a cover photo of herself. Caitlyn now has almost 2 million followers on Twitter and three tweets.
Caitlyn Jenner was supported by celebrities and recognized as a style icon.
After posting the photo, many celebrities expressed their admiration and support for Caitlyn Jenner on social networks, accompanying the posts with the #callmecaitlyn tag. Emmy Rossum, Maria Shriver, Mia Farrow, Kerry Washington, Grant Gustin, Gigi Hadid and, of course, members of the Kardashian-Jenner family were among those who congratulated Caitlin.
Jessica Lange is happy to be compared to Caitlyn Jenner.
After the cover of the June issue of Vanity Fair was published, social media users began to compare Caitlyn with the American Horror Story star so often that women began to occupy adjacent lines in Twitter trends. Lang herself rejoiced at the comparisons when journalists explained to the offline actress what a “Twitter trend” is. “So wonderful. Now we need to look at this cover, ”Lang shared.
The magazine's website posted a short version of the interview with Caitlyn Jenner. In the video, Jenner talked about how difficult it is to be a transgender and go through a whole series of surgeries and hormone treatment.
“Bruce has always lied. He lived this lie, and every day of his life turned into a secret. From morning until night. Caitlin has no secrets. I hold great hope that Caitlin is a better person than Bruce. And looking forward to a new life. As soon as the latest issue of Vanity Fair comes out, I'll be free. If I kept all this a secret and did not confess my feelings to anyone, then, lying on my deathbed, I would say to myself: “You just took and wasted your whole life.”
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