This afternoon, Vanity Fair released the biggest reveal photo of 2015 (so far), Bruce Jenner as whom he announced to the world he would be living as going forward – Caitlyn Jenner. Details and a video of Bruce speaking about the transition, after the click.
In April, Bruce Jenner told Diane Sawyer (and the world) how he’s been living a lie his whole life and has actually always felt like a woman inside. Today, he put it all out there, revealing himself as “her” – Caitlyn Jenner – on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine’s July 2015 issue. It’s the first official portrait to come out since Bruce started transitiong to a female. And the photo was taken by celebrity photographoger, Annie Leibovitz. A preview of the story below:
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Speaking publicly for the first time since completing gender transition, Caitlyn Jenner compares her emotional two-day photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for the July cover of Vanity Fair to winning the gold medal for the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. She tells Pulitzer Prize–winning V.F. contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, “That was a good day, but the last couple of days were better. . . . This shoot was about my life and who I am as a person. It’s not about the fanfare, it’s not about people cheering in the stadium, it’s not about going down the street and everybody giving you ‘that a boy, Bruce,’ pat on the back, O.K. This is about your life.”
Jenner tells Bissinger about how she suffered a panic attack the day after undergoing 10-hour facial-feminization surgery on March 15—a procedure she believed would take 5 hours. (Bissinger reveals that Jenner has not had genital surgery.) She recalls thinking, “What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?” A counselor from the Los Angeles Gender Center came to the house so Jenner could talk to a professional, and assured her that such reactions were often induced by pain medication, and that second-guessing was human and temporary.
Jenner tells Bissinger the thought has since passed and not come back: “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life. You never dealt with yourself,’ and I don’t want that to happen.”
Get the full preview piece, here.
VF/Bruce video, making the introduction:
Photos from the photo shoot below:
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