News went out over the weekend that the woman formerly known as Bruce Jenner would be making her debut on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July issue, in a photo by Annie Lebowitz, just in time to promote Jenner’s upcoming docu-series on E!. Now today VF unveils the cover and the whole feature for digital subscribers. And yes, her name is now Caitlyn.
It is funny a) that Bruce went with the name of a 6-year-old girl on Toddlers & Tiaras instead of something a little more mature, like Maude or something; and b) that he didn’t spell Caitlyn with a K, marking a firm departure from the Kardashian clan.
Nevertheless, daughters Kendall and Khloe have helped spread the love on social media, as you can see below. Kris Jenner, meanwhile, has stayed silent so far, just pimping Keeping Up With The Kardashians and a Glamour cover with Kim on it in the last few hours on Twitter.
The cover story is by Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger, who spent “hundreds of hours with the man the world knew as Bruce Jenner over a period of three months, and then countless hours with Caitlyn, also attending the photo shoot with Leibovitz at Jenner’s Malibu home.”
Bissinger delves deeper than Diane Sawyer did into the family history surrounding Jenner’s earlier marriages and how his children perceived his first attempt to transition, back in the mid-1980s. In one passage, he reports that Brody Jenner, who may be the single sexiest of the Jenner offspring, now 31 (who’ll get his own E! show this summer called Sex With Brody), was about 4 years old and said to his mother, “Mommy, we saw Daddy get out of the shower and he’s got boobs.”
And, below, is Jenner’s brief making-of video from the shoot, as well as an outtake shot from the shoot, with a red dress.
#CaitlynJenner takes the wheel…great outtake from the July @VanityFair cover shoot. pic.twitter.com/tiuHqOfWZ4
— Gregory Littley (@littleylittley) June 1, 2015
The Vanity Fair July issue hits newsstands on June 9 but the digital edition is available now for smartphone or iPad.
Previously: A NEW JENNERATION: SISTER ROMA RECAPS THE BRUCE JENNER INTERVIEW
Shouldn’t it be Kaitlyn?
God bless her … and those photos are 100% unretouched.
Does everything need to be a commercial opportunity?
Janice Dickinson
You mean Janice Dick-less-son.
My mom use to think that I stared at that Wheaties box when I was a kid, because I really liked Wheaties.
Not sure why you’re misgendering Caitlyn (calling her “he”), or what you have to gain from critiquing her new name? Seems like you’re being kind of a dick about it. Your transphobia is showing.
To be fair, Caitlyn said in his interview with Diane Sawyer that he preferred the pronouns “he” and “him” unless his tune has changed since then.
Yes, it’s changed. It changes now that SHE is Caitlyn and no longer Bruce.
Ok good now we know what she looks like. Now I can go back to not giving a fuck about another attention whore who should keep this matter a bit more private instead of exploiting it and belittling what real people transitioning go through.
The stylist did a great tuck job down under :)
I love love love how Caitlyn 1-up’d kim and Kanye’s pregnancy announcement (ha ha).
How soon til someone leaks the non-photoshopped original photo?
Any1 getting a little Mercedes Rule in that photo. That is who I thought of when I saw it.
Better looking and more feminine than any of the kuntrashians, and you just know it burns them inside.
Well she looks as good as a 60+ woman can!!!!