Caitlyn Jenner: 'There Was Always This Woman That Lived Inside Of Me'

Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, became a global celebrity in 1976 at the Olympics in Montreal. The event was the decathlon, and Jenner set a new world record with the gold.

What we didn’t know at the time was that Jenner had been dressing as a woman for years prior to winning that race.

Jenner has been married to three women, most recently Kris Kardashian, which is why many Americans know Jenner from the reality TV show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” In 2015, Jenner finally made the decision to become Caitlyn Jenner, and complete a transition that had been going on in secret for some time.

Now, Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) has written a book called “The Secrets of My Life.” Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson met with her at her home in Malibu, California, to talk about it.

Listen to Part 2 of this conversation:

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Interview Highlights

On accepting who she is now, without erasing her past

“I’m very proud of my life. I was with Ashton Eaton the other day, who won the last two Olympic decathlons in a row, and I told him, ‘You know, I’ve got a double, too. I won the Olympic decathlon, and also got Glamour Women of the Year award.’ So, that’s one that I’m very proud of. And I told him, ‘Don’t you dare break that.’ And so I’m proud that finally, after a long, long, long journey, I can finally live my life authentically, and move forward and be happy.”

On what she thinks now when she watches old videos of Bruce Jenner at the 1976 Summer Olympics

“I look at it and, I’m very proud of that moment. That’s part of me. I think of it this way: I started off as a dyslexic kid, I had identity issues, I had all these