“Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Every day, he always had a secret, from morning till night,” explains a familiar voice in a video segment accompanying a Vanity Fair cover story touting the statement “Call me Caitlyn.”
“Caitlyn doesn’t have any secrets. As soon as the Vanity Fair cover comes out, I’m free.”
The magazine hits news stands on June 9th, but it would appear that Caitlyn Jenner is already well on her way to feeling free.
As part of an in-depth profile on her transition from Bruce to Caitlyn, she tells Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Buzz Bissinger, “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.’”
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And then there’s that cover shot — a reserved yet fiercely exposed Caitlyn flashes a truthful stare.
Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz took a series of portraits of Caitlyn (the first photos of her ever taken, to be precise), and the look is a long way off from the last time America saw Jenner sitting across from Diane Sawyer.
Preview more of her looks in this behind-the-scenes video:
Glücklich
Caitlyn looks sort of Jessica Lange-ish. She looks good. I would have advised against anything off-the-shoulder though. Truthfully I was initially very icked out by the idea of Bruce switching genders and it still seems a little weird but she looks good. As long as she’s happy, go in good health.
Kangol
They/she/sih looks great! Congratulations, Caitlyn.
Now please, talk to your GOP friends and educate them on homophobia and transphobia, and educate yourself while you’re at it, so that they stop their hatemongering policies, rhetoric, discourse, and behavior. PLEASE!
Our lives and livelihoods, unlike yours, depend on it!
Cam
Hey, she looks better than the ex wife Kris Jenner.
Juan Martinez
best story of the year… so so happy for her… this is everything.,.. never too old or too late to be who you really are….
Desert Boy
Bruce looks like a cross between Cindy Crawford and Jessica Lange. He looks 1,000% better than Kris Jenner, for sure.
Brandon Culps
Beautiful
Bauhaus
She looks amazing!
Hopefully, she’ll use her fame, fortune, and name, for good. She has an opportunity to be a positive voice, and better understanding T in this country, and around the world. Just like gays and lesbians needed the closet door to open, so does the T community. Kudos to Caitlyn Jenner!
@Kangol:
I’m hopeful!
rickhfx
Good for her, now people support her or they can shut the fcuk up.
meghanada
Have the folks at Vanity been reading their Schopenhauer? Portraits should always be an idealized falsification rather than a mere copy of reality, he used to say.
Prinny
Photoshop in excessive amount.
sweetbrandigirl2004
While I fully support Bruce/Caitlyn in her transition this photo is massively air burshed !
wagnerwallace
She looks good & I’m happy she gets to be herself and be happy…
Eldred
I’d be lying to myself if I said that Caitlyn did look Gorgeous on that cover. So very happy for her.
ingyaom
Looks nothing like the person in the Diane Sawyer interview. When did s/he have all this work done, or is it mostly photoshop?
TheBigOne
She’s more beautiful than any of the Kardashians and Kris Jenner…no doubt about it. I prefer men’s plumbing though 🙂
4of14
Hurray for Bruce, or Caitlyn: I’m gay, not interested in women. Not even ones who use to be men, and defiantly not in men who are now, for all intent and purpose, lesbian. This is so far from national news, and so much more a private action. So like I said hurray Bruce or Caitlyn, and have a nice day.
mrrasheed
Caitlyn looks good. Im sure a lot of that has to do with Photoshop. Looks 20 years younger than Bruce.
I’m glad he’s living his truth. But I cant help but feel for his children/family. This is a hard transition to deal with under normal circumstances let alone when your father decides to in a media spectacle.
I understand that this may not be about the typical famewhoring that we associate with that family’s brand. And he may sincerely want to be helpful to bringing a real issue for many people and families to light. And if that’s the case it’s commendable.
It is also incredibly self-serving to put your family through this in the public without significant time to adjust. Because the spotlight is on them as well. They may feel like they have no choice but to react positively because the world is watching.
Im not saying they shouldn’t accept Caitlyn. But being forced to essentially skip over the 5 stages of grief because Dad wants to be the face of a movement has to be a difficult pill to swallow.
I wish Caitlyn and the Jenner/Kardashians all the best in navigating this transition.
OhHellNo
Three things immediately came to mind:
1) Isn’t this premature? Still has a penis.
2) At least he didnt’ spell it with a “K”.
3) And Vanity Fair raises the airbrushing bar. your move, Oprah!
Cam
One of the things everybody commenting on the photo shop used in this picture should realize….
Welcome to the world of every Hollywood celeb. None of them look like that in person. They are all pretty much photo shopped.
Blazipitous
No. Just no!!!
Christopher Trombley
Like all celebrities THANK GOD FOR MAKEUP!
Clark35
Congrats to her. Agreed cam they all use photo shop.
myloginname
@Glücklich: You know i was a little icked out at first too but WOW Caitlyn looks AMAZING. I’m really happy for her.
Giancarlo85
Great transformation, even if that photo is a bit photoshopped.
J.T.
Of course I’m glad that Bruce Jenner has found her true self. But am I the only one who’s saddened by all this? Forty years ago he was one of my heroes: virile, clean-cut, graceful, modest, athletic, handsome. He embodied American values at a time when other heroes were falling left and right. So I feel a sense of loss. And, forgive me, I can’t help but think the Khardashians had something to do with this.
cflekken
Caitlyn looks amazing. When i first saw the cover, I didn’t realize it was her. So happy she’s living her truth and living in a world of happiness now. I just hope she receives the level of acceptance that she deserves.
Creamsicle
This is a good, positive thing in making trans issues more mainstream. I just hope that Bruce/Caitlyn doesn’t turn into yet another vapid fame whore like the rest of that no talent family. At least Jenner will always have her/his past accomplishments to justify her/his position in the public eye.
Bill Crossfield
he was such a handsome man —-wish her luck
Bryguyf69
I was always very supportive of Jenner’s journey. I felt that he could do for gender dysphoria what Rock Hudson did for AIDS — bring the topic into mainstream America. I even blasted talkshow host, Wendy Williams, for cynically calling the transition a publicity stunt. Well, I’m no longer that supportive. This journey has turned into a typical Kardashian production, and Jenner has become just another limelight whore. It’s all about self-adulating publicity, not education or advocacy, and MONEY.
Arcamenel
I hope all of you referring to her with he/him pronouns and choosing not to use her new name get hit by a bus and die.
Prinny
@Arcamenel: If you’re going to give threats be more creative.
Horse Lips
I’m really happy for her, but I’m pretty sure Photoshop died working on these photos. Also, she should spell her name with a “K”.
Creamsicle
@Prinny: Personally, I hadn’t read the statement that Jenner had made saying that once she was comfortable living life as a woman and going by she/her we’d, “know it,” until later today, so I was still treating the situation similar to how people were after the Diane Sawyer interview, but with only slightly more confidence of the she/her pronouns. If anything I think that everyone using the he/she is trying to be on the safe or respectful side of things.
Captain Obvious
Claim trams for ratings, refuse to make any of the changes many trans people have killed themselves over being unable to attain. Sure, Brucie. If he was really trans he’d want his body to match, that’s been the argument trans people have been fighting to have heard for so long… And now dressing in drag is considered transgender. Yeah right.
Tired of every argument being changed by little kids who want to feel like outcasts. You’re not gender fluid, Bruce is not trans, and being bullied does not mean you actually deserved the $10,000 check you got from Ellen. So sick of this new generation I could rain vomit all over them. The Kardashians could tell them all to take arms and kill all non-believers and they kill their own parents.
Sheeple are just regurgitating every strange argument they can swallow without even questioning why they’re bad for us socially. Go ahead and accept idiots like Bruce and the gender fluid kiddies and watch all progress erased as we’re forced back to square one.
Bryguyf69
One of my main concerns about Jenner’s self-exploitation is the effect on other gender dysphorics. With her wealth and support network, Jenner has access to the best surgeons, estheticians, hairdressers, fashion consultants, bodytrainers, makeup, clothes, etc. Most transsexuals do not. Many can’t even afford the hormonal therapy and surgery.
The effect of models and celebs on girls’ body image is well known. Jenner is at risk for doing the same to male-to-female trassexuals. Keep in mind that transgender people already have body image issues. In fact, body image conflict is the very definition of “transgender” (and the clinical term, “gender dysphoria”). And let’s be honest, many MtoF transsexuals never look fully feminine. Jenner raising the bar, and exploiting her glamour, helps no one but herself. One of my MtoF patients even predicted after the Diane Sawyer interview, “Oh great, as if we need more pressure in our lives!”
Giancarlo85
I never really viewed Jenner favorably. Some ridiculous troll on here said I considered HER a hero. But I do not. Her actions behind the wheel caused the death of another drive (was it texting or smoking? Who knows…).
Caitlyn Jenner, however, is trans and should be called by female pronouns. Does that mean I respect Caitlyn or hold HER up on a pedestal or view her as a hero? Absolutely not. I don’t care for her or her family who I view as attention hoes.
I respect trans people and some are indeed heroic, however, Caitlyn isn’t one of them.
“the gender fluid kiddies and watch all progress erased as we’re forced back to square one.”
You know who will set us back? People like, captain doofus. You want men to live to gender norms. You hate androgynous people and you really hate trans people. We get it already. Luckily, nobody gives a shit about what you think in the long run. Trans and androgynous people are being accepted more and more.
Bryguyf69
@Arcamenel wrote
“I hope all of you referring to her with he/him pronouns and choosing not to use her new name get hit by a bus and die.”
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How do you determine when it’s “choosing,” and when it’s unintentional? Jenner has been in America’s consciousness as male for 40 years. Are you really so arrogant and intolerant to assume that it’s malevolent, and not just habitual? And sometimes, “he/him” is applicable. In my post, I wrote, “I was always very supportive of Jenner’s journey. I felt that he could do for gender dysphoria what Rock Hudson did for AIDS.” Note my use of past tense, “was” and “felt.” Guess what — when this journey was first rumored, and when I was fully supportive, Jenner was still considered male. His family said “he/him” in interviews.
Furthermore, given the suicide rate among LGBTs, do you really want to wish death on others?
Arcamenel
@Bryguyf69: I don’t mourn the death of transphobes.
Arcamenel
Intentionally misgendering someone or using stupid TERF logic like captain doofus to undermine her struggle are acts of violence and I will gleefully toast to the deaths of those individuals who perpetrate it.
Prinny
@Arcamenel: Saying the truth isn’t violence at all.If you can’t deal with the truth you’re free to leave.
jason smeds
Bruce Jenner is a man who likes to imagine himself as a woman making love to a woman. He’s a man who has a lesbian fetish.
As for Vanity Fair, it’s trash. I don’t consider it to be gay-friendly.
jason smeds
The mere fact that Bruce Jenner has embraced the sexist exploitation of women by Vanity Fair suggests that he is not truly on the side of women in my view. Ever seen a man pose on the cover of Vanity Fair in his undies? Nope. It’s only women who are exploited sexually by Vanity Fair, or men who pretend to be women.
Vanity Fair is sexist and offensive to women in general. By the way, it’s run by liberals.
mezzacanadese
I hope that Caitlyn Jenner uses her money to help others who would like to be able to do what she did.
McShane
She looks pretty. Good boob job, too.
@jason smeds: Shut up, Meg.
Paco
I’m surprised at how great she looks.
OzJosh
@sweetbrandigirl2004: Every Vanity Fair cover in the magazine’s history is massively air-brushed. Idealised celebrity is their game; glamour is the look.
polarisfashion
I recently joined an LGBTQ book club. Our next book is about a mtf transgender teen. The name of the book is Luna. I look forward to reading it.
Jacob23
Don’t transgender activists always say that gender is this messy, complicated spectrum and that women and men don’t have any particular look? In fact, don’t they say that some women don’t have vaginas and that it is “cissexist” to think that there’s a link b/t one’s body and one’s gender? So it’s really odd that so many of them feel it necessary to make alterations to their bodies to bring their genitals in line with their gender and that they bend over backwards to mimic the secondary sex characteristics and dress styles of real women. That Vanity Fair cover proves that Jenner doesn’t believe a word of trans activist gender theory crap. If he did, he would have just shown up in an unaltered body, wearing a t-shirt and jeans, and felt perfectly confident that he’s a woman.
ingyaom
@jason smeds: Smeds: If you do a search, you’ll find that Brad Pitt, Tiger Woods, Rob Lowe, David Beckham, etc. have all appeared shirtless on the cover of Vanity Fair (meaning they’re showing a lot more than Jenner), so who’s being exploited?
Billy Budd
I must admit she looks better than what I expected. Mix of Cindy Crawford and Jessica Lange indeed.
Caitlyn Jenner Fan Club
Finally free <3 <3 <3
judysdad
She does look good. But I still want to know how and why trans people have become lumped together with G/L/B’s. I have known a few over the years and none of them considered themselves gay and, in fact, wanted little or nothing to do with gays or lesbians. Jenner has stated that she does NOT consider herself gay. I’m confused.
Giancarlo85
@jason smeds: Oh now the little right winger has to attack liberals, while talking about what is offensive to women. Has anyone seen this troll’s posts in the past? They all attack women. He has serious mommy issues… maybe Jason Smeds is actually from India (hint: recent article).
aliengod
Bruce Jenner in drag again. Woohoo! Why is this news?
Blackceo
Caitlyn looks great. Giving a mix of Jessica Lange and Geena Davis. Nice old school glamour that photo shoot. As for looking better than Kris, to each their own opinion. Don’t agree on that.
DarkZephyr
@Prinny: except that in the life video she still looks great.
mrrasheed
@judysdad: I hear you. In my personal experience many in the trans community seem to be at odds with or try to police the gay community about what is appropriate language. It feels in my opinion like a parasitic relationship. There seems to be a disdain that exists like the trans community is in a marriage of convenience with GLB community aka an influential spouse whom they dont actually like.
misterhollywood
I’m happy for her but the air brushing and photoshopping is a but overboard. I’d like to see her in different lighting. I will say the outfit is cute 🙂
expressionlessanger
@Arcamenel: Er, not mourning someone’s death is not the same as intentionally wishing death on that person. As an analogy, I don’t care if you help me as long as you don’t harm me. And people who are often bullied should know that. Shame on you.
Jacob23
@judysdad: You’re not confused. You are seeing things clearly. There’s no such thing as “LGBT people.” LGBT was invented by trans activists and queer academics in the 1990s. Trans activists wanted to attach themselves to a stronger group with larger numbers and more money – and then free ride. The queer academics and activists were bored and frustrated with the fight for gay civil rights, which they saw as too mainstream, and wanted to foist a more radical agenda onto the LGB movement. “LGBT” solved both groups’ problems, so they invented it and then bullied and badgered a few targeted LGB groups to accept it. From there, the virus spread, doing massive damage to LGB people and LGB civil rights.
cflekken
@Bryguyf69: Oh, blah blah blah. You do realize that Caitlyn wasn’t in the spotlight at all about this until our nosey society kept getting in her business, asking why she’s going to the surgeon to have her Adams apple reduced, why she’s wearing longer hair, why her lips look different, etc, etc. The only place you need to target blame is on society for not minding its business. Sure, Caitlyn could have continued to do things in secret, but do you really expect one of the greatest athletes the US has ever had to suddenly start appearing as a woman without some level of formal presentation to the public? A gay celebrity can’t even come out without making it a public spectacle, do you complain about that? What if Caitlyn had no ties to the Kardashian family at all, would you still feel the same?
Mikah
That’s wonderful,I’m happy for her.Do what makes you happy.That is what makes your life worth it.
Raphael
these transphobic cisgender gay boys need to stfu
Soldier_Medic
I think the last few posts cumulatively convey what I feel.
Instead, we had this wall to wall bullshit about her breaking twitter records , they keep bringing up the Kardashians. & for crying out loud Caitlyn, do you have to do a reality show!??! It’s not like they don’t have 50 of them already.
Large parts of me are happy for her. But her actions are showing me what I always said it would be. Her and a reality show.
Furthermore, I think Ryan Seacrest is a disgusting, money grubbing little queen who will stop at nothing to exploit people.
DavidIntl
Wow – that is a remarkable transformation. Maybe Caitlyn can do for the trans community what celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and Neil Patrick Harris have done for the gay/lesbian community – personalize minorities for the majority.
mrrasheed
@cflekken: I know you comment was directed otherwise but my sentiments are very similar the one’s you’re confronting. I do agree that the prying nature of our media does make it more difficult to do things in private. However there is a level of privacy that celebs can choose and make an effort to maintain. How many celebrities including Jenner/Kardashians have managed to have surgery in private… during the last year.
My feelings would be no different if he wasn’t a Kardashian. In fact this has been something that has slightly humanized that group of selfie-snapping surgery happy vipers. I think this is so disrespectiful to his family and their processing of this very unique and life altering situation. I see it as emotional extortion.
Bruce was the pretty much the only member of the family I could tolerate before I stopped watching that show (before Khloe married Lamar). This spectacle only proves that that Caitlyn should be spelled with a K. But pushing this down the throat of the world and his family is a bit much.
If he decided to go public in a year or two. With the interviews/specials and docuseries. I would respect it because it wouldn’t feel like cashing in and attention seeking. Caitlyn doesnt know what its like to be inside of her new skin. A few weeks/months she ago didnt have a name. Now she’s the queen of social media?
Someone needs to have several seats and get to know herself before trying to introduce herself to the world. Trust me the world would still be interested to know Bruce/Caitlyn’s story in a year.
Giancarlo85
@Jacob23: You again… Making up more history as you go along. There is no such thing as LGB. That just something you made up. And trans people have been part of the movement since Stonewall. You keep posting the same bullshit yet you don’t bother backing it up. And massive damage? What massive damage? Do you suffer from massive brain damage? While inequalities exist, LGBTQQI people are accepted at levels never seen before. You really don’t know what you are talking about. And stop blaming trans people for everything.
Darson
What is this Jessica Lange nonsense? Jenner looks like Janice Dickinson if anything.
judysdad
@Giancarlo85: Trans people were not involved at Stonewall. They were drag queens. Big difference.
JackT
I’m happy for her but think his older children are the only sane ones here, declining to be part of the latest phase in Pimp Mama Kris’s money-making carnival. Kris, BTW = broke-down Joyce DeWitt.
Giancarlo85
@judysdad: Keep repeating that lie. People like you and Jacob really don’t know what you’re talking about. You just make up shit as you go along.
judysdad
Truly transgendered individuals were exceedingly rare at the time of Stonewall. Christine Jorgenson underwent the full procedure and it was a huge deal. I stand by my earlier comment: Drag queens, not transgenders, were at Stonewall and they were by no means a majority of the participants. And, I repeat, most transgenders do not consider themselves gay or want to have anything to do with the do-called gay “community”.
mrrasheed
@Giancarlo85: @judysdad: So guys, and I use that term loosely given the context of this conversation.
Who was involved in Stonewall? Drag Queen or Transgendered Persons? Given time period im curious how much of a movement and conversation gender dysphoria was during that time period. It’s not as though it did not exist but how much was it discussed?
I do agree and it is true that doing drag or cross dressing doesn’t mean you have gender identity issues.
jason smeds
Vanity Fair has always treated women in a cliched, sexist way. It’s basically a sexist publication. Its treatment of a fake woman such as Bruce Jenner is no different.
I wonder how much Vanity Fair paid Bruce to pose in this cliched pose? Is it a money-making scheme for Brucie boy?
JessPH
Photoshopped much?
Blazipitous
This will NEVER be okay in my book. It’s just gross. That’s all!
buddy-x
She looks great but god I’m so sick of hearing about the Kardashian-Jenner family.
OhHellNo
I’m still trying to figure out why Bruce’s doc left his dick on and cut off his hands.
expressionlessanger
@Blazipitous:
1) Why should we care? How does our opinion affect the LGBT community?
2) More importantly, why do YOU care? How does a person’s gender reassignment affect YOU?
This is the same argument in same-sex marriage. Why is it anyone else’s business when two people [you don’t know] get married? How does gay marriage threaten heterosexual marriage? You really need a life if you think my transition needs or wants your approval. And you need help if you think suicide is less “gross” than gender reassignment.
expressionlessanger
@expressionlessanger:
Should’ve been: “1) Why should we care? How does your opinion affect the LGBT community?”
Sweetie Pie
She looks like Michelle Bachmann !!!
expressionlessanger
@cflekken: When someone starts a post with “Oh, blah blah blah,” I know not to expect much. And you didn’t disappoint. How exactly did the press force Jenner to do a “reality” show? CNN reported that he wanted to do a reality show about this transition since getting involved with the Kardhashian show. Sorry, but I don’t appreciate our lives being glamorized, fictionalized and dramatized for the sake of a narrative and ratings. He’s doing this for personal fame and money, period, without regard for the community. He’s even said that he’s not an activist and was doing this for himself.
Robert Gatz
Major photoshop. Wonder what she looks like irl.
Darrell Schissler
Yessss
Giancarlo85
@judysdad: Again you can stand by your original statement, but it is obvious you don’t know jack about the history of the movement or stonewall. People like you and mental nutcase Smeds are exclusionary. The movement would be better off if people like you stay in the closet.
Blazipitous
I’d disown any family member of mine who drops this fuckery on us. They and everyone in their messed up life would be dead to me!