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Caitlyn Jenner
American media personality and decathlete (born )
Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, ), formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is an American media personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced bygd Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L.&#;D.&#;Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner had a six-year decathlon career, culminating in winning the men's decathlon event at the Summer Olympics in Montreal,[1][2] setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".[3] Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.[4]
Jenner has six children with three successive wives&#;&#;&#;Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner&#;&#;&#;and from to appeared on the realit
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Caitlyn Jenner
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Who Is Caitlyn Jenner?
One of the most beloved athletes of the s, Bruce Jenner was born on October 28, , in Mount Kisco, New York. Jenner had dyslexia and struggled in school at a ung age, but excelled at sports. An injury in college forced him to give up football and turn to track and field. His coach encouraged him to train for the Olympic decathlon, and, in , Jenner placed third in the Olympic trials and tenth at the Munich Games. At the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Jenner won a gold medal and broke a world record, scoring 8, points in the decathlon. In recent years, Jenner has appeared with his family on the popular reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians and later revealed in a Diane sågverksarbetare interview that he is transgender and identifies as female. In June , Jenner announced on Twitter that she is a woman, now known as Caitlyn.
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Caitlyn Jenner: Winning Olympic decathlon gold in as Bruce Jenner 'left me trapped'
Jenner entered therapy in the s and planned to transition before she was 40, but eventually decided she couldn't go through with it.
She soon met Kris Kardashian and became step-father to Kourtney, Kim and Khloe. They had two more daughters together, Kylie and Kendall.
The marriage broke down, and Jenner once again considered transitioning.
"Now things were different," Jenner says, "and what a great opportunity to make a genuine contribution to understanding in society when you're playing in the fourth quarter of life."
In , Jenner appeared on the front cover of Vanity Fair as a transgender woman, and was awarded with the Arthur Ashe courage award at the ESPY awards in America, the equivalent of the Oscars for sports.
She has been living as a woman for five years now.
Asked what her greatest achievement has been, Jenner says: "I would have to put