Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete. Jenner was a college football player for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury requiring surgery. Coach L. D. Weldon, who had coached Olympic decathlete Jack Parker, convinced Jenner to try the decathlon. After intense training, Jenner won the 1976 Olympics decathlon title at the Montreal Summer Olympics, gaining fame as "an all-American hero". Jenner set a third successive world record while winning...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth28 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.
What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.