Aili Nahas is the West Coast Deputy News Editor at PEOPLE. But Kim, he said, has been his most supportive kid, after her husband Kanye told her the importance of being true to oneself. I would say Ive always been confused with my gender identity since I was [small], Jenner told ABCs Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview that aired on Friday in a special edition of ABC News 20/20.. My beautiful Hero.'. Chrystie was pregnant with their second child, Cassandra, when the couple separated. I understandKris is a good woman. I mean, she is a good person, he said. He was undergoing electrolysis to rid himself of his 'repulsive' facial hair, and had already gone under the knife in a bid to make himself look more like a woman. Though the show says Chrystie and Linda commented and Kris declined, the Kardashian momager claims ABC never contacted her. Bruce." August 2015: Kris Confronts Caitlyn on 'I Am . Jenner now looks back and remembers that he spent more than 20 great years together with Kris raising phenomenal children. In an interview with ET in October 2014, Kris commented on rumors that her ex was transitioning, afterCaitlyn's changing appearance created headlines. This July 26, 1976 file photo shows Bruce Jenner competing during the long jump event in the decathlon at the Summer Olympic games in Montreal, Canada. He's a great guy. Just finished watching the #BruceJennerInterview with the family. #BruceJenner. Simpson during his 1995 murder trial, married momager Kris Jenner, then Kris Houghton, in 1978. Bruce Jenner began an athletic career at Newton (Connecticut) High School, where . We've received your submission. By signing up, you agree to our "My friend said, 'Have a bottle of wine and go have great sex,'" Kris concluded. Bruce Jenner said his ex-wife Kris Jenner had a difficult time coming to terms with his gender transition. Jenner's ex-wife and matriarch of the Kardashian clan, Kris Jenner, was not part of the interview, but showed her support after it aired. It's just me. Chrystie worked as a flight attendant, while Jenner sold insurance at night while training for hours during the day. Some have to fight more than the rest of us for their happiness. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Amid news that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are divorcing, were taking a look the famous family and how all the Kardashian-Jenner kids are connected. "When you feel like you gave your whole life to somebody and the sum of it all was you were a distraction", "Don't go there," Caitlyn abruptly said. August 2014: Photos appeared to show Bruce had breasts, sparking rumors he was having hormone therapy as he explored the idea of transitioning from male to female. Bruce Jenner and Kris Jenner are seen in this Feb. 24, 1993 file photo during a President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports event. In a KUWTK episode earlier this month, Caitlyn talked openly about her increasingly distant relationship with the Kardashians. I said, what? I couldnt believe it. It was a distraction from the sense of who I was, it doesn't mean I didn't love you or the kids.". Both his first and second wives knew about his secret, he revealed. ", "I can't really comment on who Bruce dates," she added. But he says he stopped hormone injections before the couple married. "Bruce lives a lie, she is not a lie. I am honored to stand by Bruce's side and support him. The couple married in 1991, and Kris helped revitalize Jenners career as a pop culture icon, booking Jenner for fitness infomercials and public appearances on talk shows, game shows and as a motivational speaker. That's great. ", December 2016:Kris and Caitlyn Reunite for Christmas. He gave me all these wonderful qualities. Bruce Jenner is shown here with Linda Thompson and their two sons, Brandon and Brody, in this undated family photo. At the time of her coming out, she had been called the most famous trans woman in the world. She saw him cross-dressing, he revealed, but he found it difficult to fully express how deep his feelings sat; that his believed his soul to be female. 'I feel like in a lot of ways, when you loves somebody, you have a tendency, you don't want to hurt them. Thanks for contacting us. And he added: 'If she had been good about it, we'd probably still be together.'. Gossip writer Perez Hilton tweeted: 'Kris Jenner has no comment for ABC news and the #BruceJenner interview. That night I thought, oh its, like, over. Jenner said. Bruce and Chrystie divorced in 1981 and he remarried Linda Thompson, but, according to an article on The Huffington Post this week by Linda, he didn't tell her about his identity for several. By December of that year, the divorce was finalized. The 'I Am Cait' star opened up in an powerful video about struggling with her sexual identity before ever meeting Kris Jenner. In his interview with 20/20 s Diane Sawyer on Friday evening, the reality. Bruce Jenner said his ex-wife Kris Jenner had a difficult time coming to terms with his gender transition. Bruce Jenner has come out as transgender, Friday night on ABC News' "20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. And the Jenner insider says Kris never fully comprehended the meaning behind Jenners admissions. Body hair gone: Since this hairy-legged high jumper competed in Canada in 1976, he has reportedly undergone numerous electrolysis treatments, and photos from the 1975 Pan Am Games show a more hirsute physique, Before the changes: Bruce, seen here on set, still had his athletic physique and heavy set masculine features when he appeared in the 1980 film Can't Stop The Music. A scuffed copy of the Koran. ', Family man: Bruce and Kris tied the knot in April 1991 just months after meeting. "I'm not handling this perfectly," he said, "I'm just doing my best to cope." Robert Kardashian, a powerful defense attorney and lawyer for O.J. He also remembered during the interview that Kris would ask him, You like to wear womens clothes? He described memories in which she would request that he change when he was dressed in feminine outfits. If she had been really good with it and understanding, wed probably be still together., But the father of six added that he has no complaints about his wife in the wake of him coming forward about his change, adding that she is a good person.. ", "I would think you would come from a place of more compassion, especially when you have two young daughters who are greatly affected by it," Khloe added. I want to know what I did wrong, what I didn't do wrong, what I did right, and move forward.". ELTON JOHNIt's an incredibly brave thing to do, especially when you're older. "This is not the issue. "I said, 'You have the most beautiful eyebrows.' Nothing bad happened, and they hold no grudges about the change Caitlyn made in her life, it's just different. Caitlyn and Linda divorced in 1986. Muscles bulging, the athletic champ quickly became the media's darling, and appeared in a variety of advertisements, including a Wheaties box cover, as well as many magazine covers. I thought we had a pretty good sex life. He added that tonight's interview will be his last one as Bruce, as a 'he'. "Kris is a really good woman, and I love her to death," Caitlyn said in a promo. But his constant daily questions about gender had nothing to do with his very real attraction to the opposite sex: Girls. December 2014: Bruce's first wife Chrystie Scott (nee Crownover) spoke out publicly in support of her former husband, saying'I just want him to be happy. She was previously married to Damon Thomas from 2000 to 2004 and Kris Humphries from 2011 to 2013. Jenner claims on multiple occasions that, as Bruce, she told Kris about her gender dysphoria and difficulty with gender identity. How does my story end?, In September 2014, Kris Jenner filed for divorce. On Thursday, a source told ET that Caitlyn's relationship with the Kardashian children has also become distant. He is freeing himself. Terms of Use The whole family is relieved [the news is out], the source says. Caitlyn, meanwhile, said she remembered telling Kris she had "a condition" that she had been "dealing with forever" and that she was on hormones, which could affect their ability to get pregnant. He told Diane Sawyer that in the mid-1980s, he started hormone therapy. September 2014: As his divorce from Kris was being finalized, Bruce had started growing out his hair and shaving his legs. That's what my soul is. It's who I am.' ', January 2015: When asked about her step-father's changing appearance, Kim Kardashian said he was on a 'journey' and added: 'He'll share whenever the time is right.'. Welcome to the Coronation! I was defending myself. The former couple's youngest daughter, Kylie Jenner, had showed support earlier in the day with an Instagram photo. 'I kind of downplayed it,' Jenner told Sawyer of the early days in his relationship with Kris. Prince Harry shares struggles to be his 'authentic true self' growing up, saying he felt pressures to 'come As Prince Harry says he felt like the film 'the boy in the bubble' before having therapy, who was Hollywood's love affair with the new non-binary Brit Pack: After MeToo sex scandals, Tinseltown is desperate Five unexpected signs in your 20s and 30s you're at risk of developing heart disease later in life. ", "The other night she came over for a drink, and no cameras -- she just came over, we were sitting in the kitchen at my house, and I remember I just kept staring at her eyebrows," Kris also shared with PAPER Radio one month earlier. "Have I made mistakes? Bruce Jenner and Kris Jenner, center, pose with their children for a family portrait in 1991 in Los Angeles. And I thought, Wouldnt that be a nice way to go through life? I look at women all the time thinking, Oh my God, how lucky are they that they can wake up in the morning and be themselves. In the late 1980s, Jenner started taking estrogen for the first time. 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Watch the video below for more on Kris and Caitlyns complicated relationship. His days as a TV sports. And if Mrs. Jenner is transitioning, I give all my support to her and love and appreciate everything shes given to America. Bruzer, I'm soooo proud of you! The shows enormous success led to money pouring in from the network, advertisers, endorsement deals, clothing lines and mobile apps. Later, she apologized to Kim and explained her still unresolved feelings about Caitlyn. a revelation. This differs . We had done 425 episodes I think, over almost eight years, and the entire run I kept thinking to myself, oh my god, this whole thing. The one real true story in the family was the one I was hiding and nobody knew about it. Kris even Instagrammed a photo in honor of their 23rd wedding anniversary in April 2014 with the caption: "Happy Anniversary to one of the most amazing men I know!!!! He recounted stories of trying on his sisters' dresses as an 8-year-old boy and of pursuing sports to fight his femininity. Brandon said he felt relief when his dad came out to him. Editors note: Per Bruce Jenners request, PEOPLE will continue to use male pronouns until otherwise instructed. "This was a conversation that took place in the early '90s. "They will always be nice and cordial with Caitlyn, mainly for Kendall and Kylies sake, but their relationship will never be the same as it was with Bruce, the source said. "I just really feel like over the last year and a half we certainly have grown apart," she told Khloe during a tension-filled sit-down. Bruce Jenner sat down for a far-ranging exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer in a special edition of "20/20. This content was written in April 2015 before Jenner publicly announced her full transition. As a young boy, Jenner was so energetic that his dad nicknamed him "Bruiser." It was in the late 1950s, during the Eisenhower era, when Jenner said he was 8 or 9 years old and felt compelled to do something new: wear a woman's dress. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. "We are living separately and we are much happier this way, but we will always have much love and respect for each other," they said in a joint statement to E! ", "When I met Bruce, he told me that he had done hormones back in the early '80s," Kris recalled. Maureen Donaldson/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. I've done nothing but open up my home, and my heart, to a person who doesn't give a s**t. So, I'm done.". SEAN DOOLEY, MARGARET DAWSON, LANA ZAK, CHRISTINA NG, LAUREN EFFRON and MEGHAN KENEALLY. In an episode of I Am Cait, the pair debated over the sensitive topic during a dinner with Caitlyns friends. He sneaked into his mother's and sisters' closets to try on their clothes. "I'm not gonna be used as a person who benefits someone else's life just to make them look better," she tells cameras. . ABC said Chrystie, Linda and Kris were asked for comments. But me, Im stuck here in the middle.. But I found myself really complimenting some of the different changes. In a sneak peek of the special, where Sawyer asks Caitlyn if she's ever had "doubts" about if she's doing the right thing, Caitlyn gets candid. reunited at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, portrayed her as a "b**ch and an a**hole", Kris Jenner 'Angry' With How Caitlyn Jenner Portrays Her in New Memoir: 'I'm Done'. The former Olympic champion came out as transgender during his sit-down with Diane Sawyer, and Thompson has penned an essay for the Huffington Post in which she says she had no idea that he. ", November 2015:Caitlyn and Kris Have 'Celebratory' Reunion at Kendall's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Debut. Kris Jenner Responds to 'No Comment' Accusations as ABC Stands by Bruce Jenner Special, Bruce Jenner to Kris: 'I Still Love You, Baby', Caitlyn Jenner on Transitioning and What Kris Knew: 'Did I Probably Downplay It? By high school, Jenner was a gifted athlete. She claimed his first wife Chrystie Crownover told her he had a penchant for women's clothing, shoes and lingerie. Throughout their relationship and marriage, Jenners public and private life were very different. Robert Kardashian, a powerful defense attorney and lawyer for O.J. I support his courage and commitment to this new chapter of his life.