In April, Olympic gold medalist and track-and-field superstar Bruce Jenner announced in a television special that he was transitioning from male to female, amid reports that he was in the process of becoming a woman.
Jenner’s interview with American journalist Diane Sawyer, which aired on ABC, drew some 17 million viewers.
Two months later, Jenner, 65, appeared on the front cover of Vanity Fair magazine as Caitlyn Jenner, her new identity.
A decathlon champion during the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Jenner broke his own world record and was elected to the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986. Apart from being an Olympian, Jenner was also an actor and a sportscaster.
Jenner recently shot to fame as part of the Kardashian family’s reality TV show, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” which first aired in 2007. Jenner and third wife Kris Jenner, matriarch of the Kardashian family, married in 1991 and divorced in 2014.
Jenner has six children with three wives—Kylie and Kendall with third wife Kris; Burt and Cassandra with first wife Chrystie Crownover; and Brandon and Brody with second wife Linda Thompson.
Sources: Vanity Fair, New York Times, ESPN