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 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.
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.
Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
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.
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.
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.
I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.
'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'