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Call me Caitlin
The history of the Olympic champion Bruce Jenner, who became the most famous transsexual in the world: The Vanity Fair
On June 1, the Vanity Fair magazine announced the cover of a new number and the main release material dedicated to Caitlin Jenner. Previously, Caitlin was known as Bruce Jenner, the Olympic champion in decorates, the American celebrity and stepfather Kim Kardashian. Jenner hid transsexuality up to 65 years and only in 2015 publicly spoke about the intention to change the floor. The cover of Vanity Fair, shot by the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, is her first public appearance as a woman and a significant event for all transsexuals in the world. A full interview will be released in a week, but for now, Medusa talks about the most interesting in the material of Vanity Fair - and the life of Caitlin Jenner before and after recognition in transsexuality.
In 1976, Bruce Jenner won the gold medal in the decorates at the Olympics in Montreal, while breaking the world record of the Soviet athlete Nikolai Avilov. The victory at the Olympics during the Cold War and the fierce sports confrontation between the United States and the USSR turned Jenner into a national hero, the celebrity and pride of the country. After this Olympic gold, there were no other significant awards in Jenner's career. He switched to an acting career (not too successful) and participation in the television show, and also performed in the car racing and was even filtered by the team of the national basketball league.
All this time, Bruce Jenner hid his transsexuality - only his loved ones knew about it. As Kaitlin Jenner said in an interview with Vanity Fair to Basza Bisinger, the whole past life of Bruce was built on lies. “No one knew anything about me ... They did not know that I was completely devastated inside,” says Caitlin. She admits: when Bruce appeared in public after the victory at the Olympics, under his clothes there were tights and a bra.
In the early 1990s, Bruce Jenner married Chris Kardashian. Since 2007, he began to regularly appear in the famous reality show “Kardashian family” dedicated to the life of a star family. Even before meeting with Kardashian, Jenner tried to somehow change himself-for example, he took female hormones, but in marriage (which became the third for him) stopped doing this. Chris Kardashian knew everything about her husband, numerous children guessed - the couple had two of their own, four from the previous marriage Chris and four more from the first two wives of Bruce. Jenner decided to publicly talk about his transsexuality only after a divorce from Chris Kardashian in April 2015 - a television interview was watched with recognition by more than 20 million people.
The shooting with Annie Leibovitz and the publication in Vanity Fair, as it were, brings a line under the transformation of Bruce into Kaitlin: until recently, television channels and newspapers were still wondering how to call a former athlete (in the first interview, Bruce did not tell his new female name) and what pronouns to use; Now everything has become clear.
“This shooting is about my life and my personality. Not about fanfares, not about the cries of the crowd at the stadium, not about the words thrown into the back “this is how it is done, Bruce!” She is about my life. <...> I do not do this to seem interesting, I act in such a way as to live. "
In the material of Vanity Fair, Kaitlin Jenner says that the floor change operation was not easy. The day after a 10-hour operation on her face (Jenner did not do vaginoplasty), which, as she expected, would take half the time, Kaitlin had a panic attack. She could not stop thinking: “What did I just do? What did I just do with myself? ”, But over time, these thoughts left her - and henceforth did not return, and Caitlin finally brought her appearance into line with the mental sex.
At the same time, Kaitlin Jenner established relations with her children from the first two marriages and admitted that she did not always behave correctly in relation to them. “I really hope that Caitlin will be a good person than Bruce. I am extremely waiting for this, ”says 36-year-old son Jenner from his first marriage Bruce in the material of Vanity Fair. In order for relatives to survive the transformation of Caitlin, even before the operation, she arranged “girlish evenings”, during which she dressed like a woman. Daughter Caitlin Cassandra said that during the first such evening she was very nervous and was afraid that she could not behave correctly, but in the end she realized that Caitlin could perceive as a girlfriend. 33-year-old Brandon, her son from a second marriage, Kaitlin hastened to show her new breasts; "Calm, I'm still your son!" - reacted Brandon.
Caitlin Jenner is called the most famous transsexual in the world, and one cannot disagree with this. Perhaps Jenner’s sports achievements are not known to everyone; But the reality show about the family of Kardashyanov, a regular participant of which was Kaitlin, is one of the foundations of modern Western mass culture: even if someone does not watch it, then Kim Kardashian heard almost certainly.
“If I were lying on a deathbed with my secret and would never have undertook anything, then I would lie and thought,“ you were professing my whole life. You never tried to figure it out. ” And I do not want this to happen ”(English.).