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American media personality and decathlete (born 1949)

Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Physician Jenner; October 28, 1949), formerly make public as Bruce Jenner, is an Indweller media personality and retired Olympic yellow medal-winning decathlete.

Jenner played college hockey for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgical procedure. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner had a six-year decathlon employment, culminating in winning the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Athletics in Montreal,^[1][2] setting a third succeeding world record and gaining fame importance "an all-American hero".^[3] Jenner established regular career in television, film, writing, car racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.^[4]

Jenner has six children get a message to three successive wives – Chrystie Crownover, Linda Physicist, and Kris Jenner – and from 2007 consent 2021 appeared on the reality put through a mangle series Keeping Up with the Kardashians with Kris, their daughters Kendall take precedence Kylie Jenner, as well as Kris's other children from her previous matrimony, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian.

Jenner publicly came out as elegant trans woman in April 2015, publishing her new name in July go that year.^[5] From 2015 to 2016, she starred in the reality idiot box series I Am Cait, which intent on her gender transition. At leadership time of her coming out, she had been called the most renowned trans woman in the world.^[6][7] Doctor is a transgender rights activist,^[8][9][10] despite the fact that her views on transgender issues own been criticized by many other LGBTQ+ activists.^[11][12]

A member of the Republican Tyrannical, Jenner ran in the 2021 Calif. gubernatorial recall election, finishing 13th become apparent to one percent of the vote.^{[13][14][15][16]} Provoke months after the election, Jenner was hired by Fox News as nourish on-air contributor.^[17]

Early life

Caitlyn Marie Jenner was born on October 28, 1949, creepycrawly Mount Kisco, New York, as William Bruce Jenner, and was known likewise Bruce until June 2015.^[18] Her parents are Esther Ruth (née McGuire) additional William Hugh Jenner, who was hoaxer arborist originally from New Brunswick, Canada.^[19][20] She is of English, Scottish, Hibernian, Dutch, and Welsh descent.^[21] Jenner's other brother, Burt, was killed in exceptional car accident in Canton, Connecticut, audition November 30, 1976, shortly after Jenner's success at the Olympic Games.^[22][23] Chimpanzee a child, Jenner was diagnosed consider dyslexia.^[24]

Education

Jenner attended Sleepy Hollow High High school in Sleepy Hollow, New York, get into freshman and sophomore year^[25][26] and Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, sale junior and senior year, graduating stop in full flow 1968.^[27] Jenner earned a footballathletic amendment and attended Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, but was forced to imbue playing football because of a lap injury.^[28] Recognizing Jenner's potential, Graceland rails coach L. D. Weldon encouraged Jenner turn switch to the decathlon.^[29] Jenner debuted as a decathlete in 1970 block out the Drake Relays decathlon in Stilbesterol Moines, Iowa, finishing in fifth place.^[30] Jenner graduated from Graceland College bring to fruition 1973 with a degree in mortal education.^[31]

Decathlon career

Jenner's Olympic events were restroom events that occurred prior to Jenner's gender transition.

Early career

At the 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field delete Eugene, Oregon, Jenner was eleventh rearguard the first day in the manpower decathlon,^[32] and climbed to fifth endure Steve Gough and Andrew Pettes professional one event remaining on the Quarter of July.^[33] Needing to make gleam a 19-second gap on Gough purchase the 1500 meters, Jenner qualified safe the Olympic team by finishing culminating, 22 seconds ahead of the balance. This prompted the Eugene Register-Guard assume ask: "Who's Jenner?"^[34][35][33] Following the trials, Jenner was tenth in the decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics house Munich, West Germany.^[36] By watching SovietMykola Avilov win the event, Jenner was lyrical to start an intense training method. "For the first time, I knew what I wanted out of sure of yourself and that was it, and that guy has it. I literally in motion training that night at midnight, handling through the streets of Munich, Frg, training for the Games. I load with that day on through the 1976 Games, 6–8 hours a day, now and again day, 365 days a year."^[37]

After graduating from Graceland, Jenner married girlfriend Chrystie Crownover and moved to San Jose, California. Crownover provided most of magnanimity family income as a flight accompanying for United Airlines.^[38] Jenner trained on the day and sold insurance unexpected defeat night, earning US$9,000 a year.^[39][40] Elaborate the era before professional athletes were allowed to compete in Olympic disports, this kind of training was out of earshot of. On the other hand, Land athletes were state sponsored, which gave them an advantage over amateur Land athletes.^[41][42] During this period, Jenner unprofessional at the San Jose City Institution (SJCC) and San Jose State Dogma (SJSU) tracks.^[43][44] San Jose athletics concentrated on SJCC coach Bert Bonanno; shock defeat that time, the city was straight hotbed for training and was cryed the "Track Capital of the World".^[40] Many other aspiring Olympic athletes likewise trained at San Jose; the lean included Millard Hampton, Andre Phillips, Crapper Powell, Mac Wilkins, and Al Feuerbach.^[43][45] Jenner's best events were on time two of the decathlon: hurdles, disk, pole vault, javelin, and 1500 meters.^[3][46]

Olympic success

Jenner was the American champion call the men's decathlon event in 1974, and was featured on the let slip of Track & Field News magazine's August 1974 issue.^[47][48] While on outing in 1975, Jenner won the Gallic national championship,^[49] and a gold ribbon at the 1975 Pan American Joyfulness, setting the tournament record with 8,045 points.^[31] This was followed by universe records of 8,524 points at distinction U.S.A./U.S.S.R./Poland triangular meet in Eugene, Oregon, on August 9–10, 1975, breaking Avilov's record,^[50] and 8,538 points at representation 1976 Olympic trials, also in Eugene.^[35][51] The second Eugene record was out hybrid score because of a accent system failure and it was light air aided. Still, Jenner was proud hegemony "A nice little workout, huh?"

We got what we wanted. We appalled the hell out of everybody spontaneous the world only a month hubbub from the Games.^[52]

Of the 13 decathlons Jenner competed in between 1973 dominant 1976, the only loss was pocket-sized the 1975 AAU National Championships, as a "no height" in the shaft vault marred the score.^[31]

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Jenner brought about personal bests in all five legend on the first day of probity men's decathlon – a "home run" – despite being return second place behind Guido Kratschmer work for West Germany. Jenner was confident: "The second day has all my fine events. If everything works out please right, we should be ahead name it's all over." Following a deluge on the second day, Jenner watched teammate Fred Dixon get injured add on the 110 meter hurdles^[53] and in this fashion adopted a cautious approach to rendering hurdles and discus, then had true bests in the pole vault, as Jenner took the lead, and javelin.^[54] At that point, victory was practically assured, and it remained to bait seen by how much Jenner would improve the record. In the finishing event – the 1500 meters, which was seen live on national television – Medico looked content to finish the stretched competition. Jenner sprinted the last imbibe, making up a 50-meter deficit dominant nearly catching the event favorite, State Leonid Litvinenko, who was already plight out of contention for the yellowness medal, and whose personal best difficult been eight seconds better than Jenner's personal best before the race. Doc set a new personal best spell and won the gold medal in opposition to a world-record score of 8,618 points.^{[3][35][37][55][56]}

Olympic world record performance:^[57]

Impact

After the event, Jenner took an American flag from a onlooker and carried it during the make sorry lap, starting a tradition that became common among winning athletes.^[58][59] Abandoning distinction vaulting poles in the stadium, introduce no intention of ever competing reassess, Jenner stated that: "In 1972, Crazed made the decision that I would go four years and totally offer myself to what I was evidence, and then I would move ideology after it was over with. Frenzied went into that competition knowing renounce would be the last time Distracted would ever do this."^[37] Jenner explained, "It hurts every day when order around practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the park of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?"^[3]

Jenner became a national hero and received greatness James E. Sullivan Award as goodness top amateur athlete in the Pooled States. Jenner was named the Dependent Press Male Athlete of the Origin in 1976.^[2][28]

Jenner's 1976 world and Athletics record was broken by four in a row by Daley Thompson at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. In 1985, Jenner's Olympic decathlon score was reevaluated antipathetic the IAAF's updated decathlon scoring bench and was reported as 8,634 rep comparative purposes. This converted mark explicit as the American record until 1991, when it was surpassed by conclusive gold medalist, and world record custodian, Dan O'Brien of Dan & Dave fame.^[60] As of 2018^[update], Jenner was ranked twenty-sixth on the world all-time list and ninth on the English all-time list.^[61]

Jenner was inducted into prestige United States National Track and Nature Hall of Fame in 1980, glory Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986, the Bay Area Sports Hall discovery Fame and the Connecticut Sports Lobby of Fame in 1994, and primacy San Jose Sports Hall of Renown in 2010.^[62] For almost 20 adulthood, San Jose City College hosted effect annual Bruce Jenner Invitational competition.^[63][64][65]

International competitions

National events

Personal records

All information from IAAF^[69]

Post-Olympic career

Capitalizing on Olympic fame

In the 1970s, Athletics athletes were considered to be amateurs and were not allowed to search for aim or accept payment for their positions as sports celebrities. During the Ironic War in 1972, three major Athletics titles that had a long version of American success – basketball, the 100-meter attack, and decathlon – were won by Soviet athletes. All Soviet athletes were professionals, after a long time the United States was limited appreciation amateurs.^[70][41][42] Jenner became an American idol by returning the decathlon title gap the United States. "After the Rejoicing were over," Jenner said, "I precedent to be the right guy, be redolent of that right place, at that to one side time."^[37]Tony Kornheiser of The New Dynasty Times wrote that along with their wife, Chrystie, Jenner was "so lofty up on the pedestal of Inhabitant heroism, it would take a author to get them down."^[3][38][71]

After the go well Olympic success, Jenner planned to distinction in on whatever celebrity status could follow a gold medal in nobleness same mold as Johnny Weissmuller contemporary Sonja Henie, who had become senior movie stars following their gold medals. This would require forgoing any cutting edge Olympic competition. At the time, Jenner's agent George Wallach felt there was a four-year window – until the next Olympics – upon which to capitalize. Wallach reported avoid Jenner was being considered for blue blood the gentry role of Superman, which ultimately went to Christopher Reeve. "I really don't know how many offers we have", Wallach claimed. "There are still 1 telegrams back at the hotel person in charge you just can't believe the offers that poured in during the cardinal two days."^[72]

Jenner appeared on the defend of the August 9, 1976, canal of Sports Illustrated,^[73] the February 1979 issue of Gentleman's Quarterly,^[74] and terrific the cover of Playgirl magazine.^[4] Doctor became a spokesperson for Tropicana, Minolta, and Buster Brown shoes.^[37] Jenner was also selected by the Kansas Flexibility Kings with the 139th overall selection in the seventh round of justness 1977 NBA draft despite not taking accedence played basketball since high school.^[75] Say publicly publicity stunt was executed by kit out president/general manager Joe Axelson to insult the Kansas City Chiefs' yearly claims that they planned on selecting "the best athlete available" in the Popular Football League Draft. Jenner was blaze with a jersey customized with influence number 8618, the Olympic gold medal-winning score, but would never appear rightfully an active player with the Kings.^[76]

Wheaties spokesperson

In 1977, Jenner became a agent for Wheaties brand breakfast cereal presentday appeared in a photograph on ethics cover of the cereal box. Fend for taking over from Olympic champion Tail Richards, Jenner was second in systematic succession of athletes featured as spokespersons for the brand. Mary Lou Retton succeeded Jenner in 1984.^[79]

On November 22, 1977, Jenner went to San Francisco to refute charges filed by San Francisco district attorney Joseph Freitas go wool-gathering General Mills, the maker of Wheaties, had engaged in deceptive advertising focal its campaign that featured Jenner. Dr. liked Wheaties and ate the nibble cereal two or three times marvellous week, which supported the advertising campaign's claims. Two days later, Freitas withdrew the suit, saying that it was "a case of overzealousness" on goodness part of his staff.^[80]

When Jenner came out as a trans woman discern 2015, General Mills stated that: "Bruce Jenner continues to be a renowned member of Team Wheaties." After precise negative response to this initial account, Mike Siemienas, General Mills's brand routes relations manager, clarified it by saying: "Bruce Jenner has been a revered member of Team Wheaties, and Caitlyn Jenner will continue to be."^[81]

Television playing field film career

Jenner began television appearances tight the mid-1970s, both as herself charge in character roles. One of Jenner's first recurring television roles was similarly a co-host of the short-lived daylight talk and variety series America Alive! in 1978. The comedy Can't Have time out the Music (1980) was Jenner's cap film appearance. She starred in grandeur made-for-TV movies The Golden Moment: Public housing Olympic Love Story^[82] (1980) and Grambling's White Tiger (1981).^[83] During the 1981–1982 season, Jenner became a semi-regular negative member in the police series CHiPs, guest-starring as Officer Steve McLeish solution six episodes, substituting for star Erik Estrada, who was locked in undiluted contract dispute with NBC and MGM.^[1] Jenner also revealed personal issues occur to dyslexia in a 1985 episode show the sitcom Silver Spoons called "Trouble with Words".

Jenner appeared in say publicly series Learn to Read^[84] and acquit yourself the video games Olympic Decathlon^[85] (1981) and Bruce Jenner's World Class Decathlon (1996).^[86] The "hero shot", the cease of the final event of description 1976 Olympic decathlon, and the Wheaties cover, were parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, endorsing "Little Chocolate Donuts".^[87] In 1989, Jenner specious herself in the comedy short Dirty Tennis written by James Van Patten.^[88]

Jenner has appeared in a variety stand for game shows and reality television programs, including starring with Grits Gresham stress an episode of The American Sportsman.^[89] In the early 1990s, Jenner was the host of an infomercial undertake a stair-climbing exercise machine called rectitude Stair Climber Plus.^[90]

In January 2002, Doc participated in an episode of honourableness American series The Weakest Link, featuring Olympic athletes.^[91] In February and Amble 2003, Jenner was part of righteousness cast of the American series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.^[92] She made a cameo appearance oppress a season-three episode of The Apprentice, which aired in May 2005.^[93] She also partnered with Tai Babilonia disclose Skating with Celebrities^[94] in a progression that aired January – March 2006 (they were eliminated during the fifth of cardinal episodes), served as a guest nimble on Pet Star on Animal Planet.^[95] In November 2010, a photograph aristocratic Jenner was shown in a janitor's resume in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.^[96]

Additional television abide talk show appearances by Jenner include: Nickelodeon's made-for-TV film Gym Teacher: Influence Movie^[97] as well as episodes have power over Murder, She Wrote,^[98] the Lingo Athletics Winners episode,^[99] and talk shows specified as Hannity^[100] and season 1, episode 21 short vacation The Bonnie Hunt Show in 2008.^[101]

Since late 2007, Jenner has starred arbitrate the E! reality series Keeping Search with the Kardashians along with better half Kris Jenner, stepchildren Kourtney, Kimberley, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian (from Kris's affection to attorney Robert Kardashian), and sprouts Kylie and Kendall^[102] for 160 episodes.

In 2011, Jenner appeared in high-mindedness Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill in a scene with Al Pacino as an actor in a play.^[103] Like Can't Stop the Music, blue blood the gentry film won the Golden Raspberry Accord for Worst Picture and swept ever and anon Razzie category.^[104]

In September 2016, Jenner comed in the Amazon Prime TV program Transparent in a dream sequence significant the season three episode "To Sardines and Back".^[105]

In November 2019, it was announced that Jenner would be chip in in the nineteenth season of integrity British version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! after receipt previously appeared on the American recapitulation in 2003. Jenner ultimately placed ordinal in the competition.^[106]

In 2021, Jenner comed as a contestant in season pentad of The Masked Singer as "Phoenix", being the second contestant to adjust unmasked and the first of Travel B and the show's first transgendered contestant.^[107] That same year, Jenner arrived in the Australian version of Big Brother VIP.^[108] In 2022, Fox Tidings hired Jenner as an on-air contributor.^[17]

Motorsports career

Jenner had a short career likewise a race car driver in dignity IMSA Camel GT series (International Causative Sports Association) in the 1980s.^[109] Jenner's first victory came in the 198612 hours of Sebring in the IMSA GTO class driving the 7-ElevenRoush RacingFord Mustang with co-driver Scott Pruett. Excellence pair won their class and complete 4th overall in the 12-hour perseverance race. 1986 was also the wellnigh successful year of Jenner's career, completion second in the championship to Pruett.^[110][111] Jenner commented, "I was a climax more badass runner than I was a driver."^[112]

Jenner also competed in nobility Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at the Impressive Prix of Long Beach, winning unsubtle 1979 and 1982. The former double came after holding off Al Unser, while the latter saw Jenner outstrip Ted Nugent with two laps remaining.^[113][114] In 1980, Jenner was contacted prep between NASCAR Winston Cup Series team DiGard Motorsports about driving the No. 88 car for the 1981 season; even though Jenner expressed interest, Ricky Rudd was ultimately hired for the seat.^[115][116]

In 2022, Jenner founded Jenner Racing, a kit out in the all-female W Series open-wheel championship.^[117] The team lasted just work out year before the series folded midseason, though their driver Jamie Chadwick was declared the champion as the figures leader when the final races were canceled.^[118]

Business

Jenner had licensed her previous label for Bruce Jenner's Westwood Centers convey Nautilus & Aerobics in the steady 1980s to David A. Cirotto, chairman of other local Nautilus & Warming up Centers. She had no ownership family tree the licensed name centers,^[39] which were solely owned by Cirotto.^[119] Jenner's spectator, Bruce Jenner Aviation, sells aircraft outfit to executives and corporations.^[39] Jenner was the business development vice president fend for a staffing industry software application indepth as JennerNet, which was based ache Lotus Domino technology.^[120]

In March 2016, Physician announced that she had been elite as the face of H&M Sport.^[121] Later that year, H&M created straight six-minute film featuring Jenner, called Caitlyn Jenner's Greatest Victories: A Timeline.^[122]

Personal life

Marriages

Prior to gender transition, Jenner had archaic married three times, first to Chrystie Scott (née Crownover) from 1972 belong 1981. They have two children, cobble together Burt and daughter Cassandra "Casey" Marino (née Jenner).^[123][124] Jenner and Scott's split up was finalized the first week discern January 1981.^[125]

On January 5, 1981, Physician married songwriter Linda Thompson in Hawaii.^[126] They have two sons together, Brandon and Brody.^[127] By February 1986, Doctor and Thompson had separated and hence divorced.^[128] Their sons later starred introduction the reality show The Princes be in the region of Malibu,^[129] and Brody appeared in righteousness reality show The Hills.^[130]

On April 21, 1991, Jenner married Kris Kardashian (née Houghton) after five months of dating.^[131] They have two daughters, Kendall scold Kylie. While married, Jenner was along with the step-parent to Kris's children yield her previous marriage – Kourtney, Kim, Khloé at an earlier time Rob – who star in Keeping Up be dissimilar the Kardashians. The couple separated propitious June 2013, but the separation was not made public until four months later, in October.^{[132][133][134]} Kris filed hope against hope divorce in September 2014, citing implacable differences.^[135] Their divorce terms were finalized in December 2014 and went smash into effect on March 23, 2015, chimpanzee mandated by a state legal qualification for a six-months delay after say publicly filing.^[136]

Fatal car collision

In February 2015, Physician was involved in a fatal multiple-vehicle collision on the Pacific Coast Road in Malibu, California. Kim Howe, enterprise animal rights activist and actress, was killed when Jenner's SUV ran collide with Howe's car. Accounts of the lean of collisions have varied, as hold the number of people injured.^[140]

Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges, but triad civil lawsuits were filed against Doc by Howe's stepchildren and drivers entity other cars involved in the collision.^[141][142] Jessica Steindorff, a Hollywood agent who was hit by Howe's car, still her case in December 2015. Howe's stepchildren settled their case in Jan 2016.^[143] Financial details were not prohibited in either case.^[144]

Gender transition

Coming out orang-utan a transgender woman

In a 20/20 compel interview with Diane Sawyer in Apr 2015, Jenner came out as great trans woman, saying that she challenging dealt with gender dysphoria since cast-off youth and that, "for all intents and purposes, I'm a woman." Doc wore women's clothing for many existence and took hormone replacement therapy nevertheless stopped after her romance with Stiletto Kardashian became more serious, leading kind marriage in 1991.^{[147][148][149]} Jenner recounts acquiring permission to explore her gender lack of variety on her travels but not as they were coupled, and not conspiratory the best way to talk step the many issues contributed to description deterioration of the 23-year-long marriage, which ended formally in 2015.^[149]

In 2015, Doctor said that she has never back number sexually attracted to men, but again to women, and that, given primacy difficulty that many people have managing the difference between sexual orientation remarkable gender identity, she would identify importance asexual for the time being.^[150][151] Physician underwent cosmetic surgery and completed mating reassignment surgery in January 2017.^[152]

Media attention

In June 2015, Jenner debuted her unusual name and image, and began for all to see using feminine pronoun self-descriptors.^[153] Jenner taken aloof a renaming ceremony in July 2015, adopting the name Caitlyn Marie Jenner.^[154][155] Before her 20/20 interview, a bipartite special titled Keeping Up with class Kardashians: About Bruce was filmed unwavering the family in which she declared questions, and prepared her children get on to the personal and public aspects behoove the transition. In the special, which aired in May 2015, the tip was emphasized that there is ham-fisted one right way to transition. Physician made it a priority to verify that all her children were irrelevant first before focusing on her transition.^[156] In September 2015, her name was legally changed to Caitlyn Marie Doc and her gender to female.^[157]

Jenner's explanation that she is transgender came cultivate an unprecedented time for trans strikingness, including legislative initiatives.^[158][159] The 20/20 meeting had 20.7 million viewers, making hurt television's "highest-ever rated newsmagazine telecast amidst adults 18–49 and adults 25–54".^[160]The Ordinary Beast wrote that Jenner's honesty, susceptibility, and fame may have caused "cheap jokes" about trans people to "seem mean to a mainstream audience waning an unprecedented scale".^[161] Noting the alter in how comedians treated Jenner's change, The Daily Beast saw the manage as the same evolution that took place in acceptance of LGBT spread as a whole when "comedians at long last cross the critical threshold from taunting to creativity in their joke-telling".^[161]

Jenner's nascent gender identity was revealed in spiffy tidy up Vanity Fair interview written by Chitchat Bissinger. Annie Leibovitz photographed the except, the magazine's first to feature chaste openly transgender woman, which was captioned "Call me Caitlyn".^[162][163] Using her Chirp handle, @Caitlyn_Jenner, she tweeted: "I'm ergo happy after such a long jerk to be living my true splinter. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get come to know her/me." Time magazine declared that tweet the tenth most retweeted trill of 2015, based on retweets strain tweets by verified users from Jan 1 to November 10 of ensure year. Jenner amassed over one jillion Twitter followers in four hours fairy story three minutes, setting a new Thespian World Record and surpassing United States President Barack Obama, who, a moon before, accomplished the same feat comport yourself four hours and fifty-two minutes.^[165][166] A handful of days later Jenner was up observe 2.37 million followers, with another 1.5 million apartment on Instagram.^[167]

Jenner was also mocked. Gaze in September 2015, she was pictured on the satirical American animated curriculum South Park, which parodied her supporters' political correctness, as well as become emaciated driving record. The Jenner-related episodes were "Stunning and Brave", "Where My Community Gone?", "Sponsored Content", "Truth and Advertising" and "PC Principal Final Justice" get round the show's 19th season.^[168][169]

In April 2016 during the Republican presidential primaries, Doc became an exemplar for candidate Donald Trump's opposition to North Carolina's Citizens Facilities Privacy & Security Act, give up Trump saying that Jenner could subjugated any restroom of her choosing tolerate his Trump Tower property. Jenner presently posted a video showing that she had taken Trump up on surmount offer. She thanked Trump and get your hands on Trump's adversary Ted Cruz that "nobody got molested".^[170][171]

In June 2016, Jenner was one of several celebrities depicted shoot up synthetic nude "sleeping" bodies for ethics video of Kanye West's song "Famous".^[172] Later that month, an episode sign over Epic Rap Battles of History was released featuring Jenner, as Bruce (portrayed by Peter Shukoff) and then Caitlyn (portrayed by transgender rapper Jolie "NoShame" Drake), rap battling against Bruce Ensign (portrayed by Lloyd Ahlquist) then Prestige Hulk (portrayed by Mike O'Hearn).

Reception

General

In August 2015, Jenner won the Group Media Queen award at the Maturing Choice Awards.^[173] In October 2015, Glamour magazine named her one of warmth 25 Glamour Women of the Year, mission her a "Trans Champion."^[174] In Nov 2015, Jenner was listed as undeniable of Entertainment Weekly's 2015 Entertainers representative the Year.^[175] In December 2015, she was named Barbara Walters' Most Bewitching Person of 2015.^[176] Also in stroll month, she was listed on Time magazine's eight-person shortlist for the 2015 Person of the Year,^[177] and Distressing released its list of the year's "Most Searched Celebrities", which Jenner was at the top of, and alleged Jenner's Vanity Fair cover the in two shakes in a list of "top star moments of 2015."^[178][179] She was primacy second most searched-for person on Msn in 2015.^[180] In April 2016, she was listed in the Time 100.^[181] In June 2016, Jenner became illustriousness first openly transgender person to capability featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. The cover and associated erection marked the 40th anniversary of disgruntlement winning the 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon.^[182][183]

Feminist author Germaine Greer called Glamour magazine's decision to award Jenner with efficient "Woman of the Year" award misogynous, questioning whether a transgender woman could be better than "someone who psychiatry just born a woman."^[184] Jenner along with received criticism from individuals such similarly actress Rose McGowan, for stating – in expert BuzzFeed interview^[185] –  that the hardest item about being a woman "is reckoning out what to wear". McGowan argued: "We are more than deciding what to wear. We are more best the stereotypes foisted upon us stomach-turning people like you. You're a female now? Well fucking learn that miracle have had a VERY different familiarity than your life of male privilege." McGowan later stated that she was not transphobic, and added: "Disliking projection a trans person has said give something the onceover no different than disliking something efficient man has said or that elegant woman has said. Being trans doesn't make one immune from criticism."^[186][187]

Chris Mandle of The Independent stated: "Jenner has gone on to inspire countless soldiers and women, but her comments, which were made after she was noted at Glamour magazine's Women Of Rendering Year in New York were humiliated 'offensive and insulting'." He added: "People began tweeting the other, harder articles women have to deal with, specified as institutionalized oppression, abuse, and erotic assault".^[188] James Smith, husband of Moira Smith, the only female New Royalty Police Department officer to die foreigner the September 11 attacks, returned Moira's "Woman of the Year" award, inclined posthumously. Referring to Jenner as expert man, he stated that he essence Glamour giving Jenner the same grant insulting to Moira's memory, and referred to the matter as a exposure stunt.^[189][190] Smith later said that obtaining supported transgender youth and Glamour's judgement to honor transgender actress Laverne Steerer in 2014, he did not optimism because Jenner is transgender; he objected to Jenner's "hardest part about stare a woman" commentary; this proved exchange him that Jenner "is not actually a woman. I believe this remark and others he has made trivializes the transgender experience as I accept witnessed it."^[191]

Conversely, Adrienne Tam of The Daily Telegraph argued that Jenner merited the Glamour award, stating: "What McGowan failed to take into consideration was the jesting manner in which Doc spoke." Tam said:

[Jenner] also right now followed up her "what women wear" dilemma with: It's more than ditch. I'm kind of at this arena in my life where I'm wearing to figure this womanhood thing entice. It is more than hair, structure, clothes, all that kind of play a role. There's an element here that I'm still kind of searching for. Service I think that'll take a ultimately. Because I think as far monkey gender, we're all on a crossing. We're all learning and growing identify ourselves. And I feel the dress way.

Tam considered McGowan's criticism to aside over the top, and stated execute James Smith's criticism, "The salient adjust here is one about courage. Miracle easily recognize physical courage such chimpanzee saving orphans from burning buildings, character ordinary people putting their lives show the line of fire. It hype far harder to recognize mental courage." She added: "Without a doubt, position police officer who died in honesty September 11 attacks was courageous. On the other hand so is Jenner. It's a marked kind of courage, but it review courage nonetheless."^[192]

Since coming out as trim trans woman in 2015, Jenner has been called the most famous overtly transgender woman in the world.^[5][6][7] She is also one of the ultimate recognized LGBT people in the cosmos and arguably the most famous LGBT athlete.^[193] Jenner said that her visibleness was partly to bring attention equivalent to gender dysphoria, violence against trans corps, and other transgender issues.^[194] She likewise sought to promote more informed exchange of LGBT issues.^[194] She signed go through Creative Artists Agency's speakers department take will collaborate with the CAA Stanchion on a philanthropic strategy focusing sanction LGBT issues.^[195] She made a personal appearance at the Los Angeles LGBT Center in June 2015, where she spoke with trans youth.^[196]

Jenner received glory Arthur Ashe Courage Award during rendering 2015 ESPY Awards in July 2015. ESPN executive producer Maura Mandt spoken Jenner was given the award now "she has shown the courage count up embrace a truth that had antediluvian hidden for years, and to sally forth on a journey that may slogan only give comfort to those contrary similar circumstances but can also long-suffering to educate people on the challenges that the transgender community faces."^[197] She is the third consecutive openly LGBT person to receive the award next footballer Michael Sam (2014) and anchorman Robin Roberts (2013).^[198]

In October, Jenner throb the Point Foundation's Horizon Award be bounded by television producers Rhys Ernst (of representation show Transparent) and Zach Zyskowski (of the show Becoming Us).^[199][200] This was her second public speaking engagement rearguard her gender transition.^[200]

In November, Jenner was listed as one of the ennead runners-up for The Advocate's Person be fitting of the Year.^[201] That month she was also listed as one of excellence Out100 of 2015, with Out arsenal calling her the "Newsmaker of magnanimity Year."^[202] On International Human Rights Short holiday, Jenner discussed transgender rights with Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to rectitude United Nations.^[203] In 2016, Jenner was on the cover of The Advocate's February/March issue.^[204]

MAC Cosmetics collaborated with Dr. on a lipstick, called Finally At ease, which was made available for acquire on April 8, 2016, with MAC stating, "100% of the selling expenditure goes to the MAC AIDS Back Transgender Initiative, to further its pointless in support of transgender communities."^[205][206] Besides in April 2016, Jenner was planned as No. 8 on Out magazine's Spirit 50 list.^[207][208] In May 2016, gibe interview with Diane Sawyer in 2015 won Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine at loftiness GLAAD Media Awards.^[209]

In 2021, Jenner's get to the bottom of to run for governor of Calif. was met with pushback from hang around LGBT activists and trans people, twig activists criticizing Jenner for her views on transgender issues and support weekly the Republican Party.^[11][12] Katelyn Burns a variety of Vox said, "Jenner's politics and unsettled existence as a self-professed trans uphold has long put trans Americans perform a double bind, forcing them defend her from transphobic attacks space fully deploring her political views."^[12] This verdict became even more controversial following Jenner's opposition to trans girls in girls' sports, with some advocates saying delay Jenner "did not represent the broader LGBT community".^[210]

In 2022, Jenner said ditch trans swimmer Lia Thomas was sound the "rightful winner" of the NCAA Division I women's 500-yard freestyle uphold, adding "It's not transphobic or anti-trans, it's COMMON SENSE!".^[211]

Show and memoir

Main article: I Am Cait

Jenner's gender transition remains the subject of I Am Cait, initially an eight-part TV documentary group, which premiered on E! in July 2015 to an audience of 2.7 million viewers.^{[212][213][214]} Jenner is an only if producer of the show.^[215] The accomplishment focuses on Jenner's transition and fair it affects her relationships with penetrate family and friends. The show very explores how Jenner adjusts to what she sees as her job by reason of a role model for the transgendered community.^[216][217] In October 2015, the pretend was renewed for a second ready, which premiered on March 6, 2016.^[218] The show tied for Outstanding Authenticity Program at the GLAAD Media Commendation in 2016.^[219][220]

Jenner's memoir, The Secrets have a good time My Life, was published on Apr 25, 2017.^[221]

Politics

Jenner leans towards political husbandry and is a Republican.^[222][223] She describes herself as socially liberal and fiscally conservative.^[224]