The Secrets of My Life

Caitlyn Jenner

Apr 2017 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

In this remarkable memoir former Olympian and Kardashian family member Caitlyn Jenner reveals shocking and heartbreaking stories from her journey to become a transgender woman and fight for the LGBTQ+ community.

Imagine denying your core and soul. Then add to it the most impossible expectations that people have for you because you are the personification of The American Male Athlete.
Bruce Jenner, the celebrated Olympic icon and later the patriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, seemed to be living a dream life of success, fame, and prosperity. But the all-American image and million-dollar smile belied a lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria, and it wasn't until the sensational Diane Sawyer interview that the public mask of Bruce Jenner was finally retired, and through the memorable Vanity Fair piece by Buzz Bissinger, that Caitlyn Jenner was introduced to the world and set free to exist on her own terms. Since then, Caitlyn has undertaken an arduous emotional and physical odyssey to achieve the completeness she always felt was missing.
In The Secrets of My Life, Caitlyn reflects on the inner conflict she experienced growing up in an era of rigidly defined gender identities, and the cruel irony of being hailed by an entire nation as the ultimate symbol of manhood. She recounts her Olympic triumph, her rise to fame, and relates how her sense of frustration and shame grew with the passing years and the lengths to which she had to go to conceal her true self. Caitlyn in turn uncovers the toll that these personal struggles had on her three marriages and, subsequently, the relationships with her children. She also talks candidly about her life in the public eye as a member of the Kardashian clan, what led to her decision to become Caitlyn, and how she, her family, the transgender community, and the rest of the world has since embraced her new life.
Filled with incredibly personal and moving stories of struggle and victory, of anxiety and fear, and, finally, of surrender and acceptance, The Secrets of My Life reveals the real Caitlyn Jenner by tracing her long and eventful journey to becoming herself.

Ratings and reviews

I feel he goes back and forth. I think he likes and admires women, I can understand admiration in trying to look like one, I still can't digest Bruce becoming a woman. I don't hate and descriminate LGBT, I have lgbt friends, I just don't think it's fair to these woman he married. I feel it's selfishness, and the sad part is he decided to have children whom are now grown, whom now have to face this transition, whether they like it or not. Because they are public figures, they HAVE too, in a possitive way, in my opinion. Maybe Bruce has a lack of mom and son relationship during childhood, I don't knw. I love Bruce, thought he was cool. Always indifferent and down. liked watching the show because of bruce. Bruce jenner ♡. Who remembers Donna in that 70s show drooling over bruce jenner?!

Terrible how the media and delusional left are encouraging these mentally ill people to mutilate their bodies as if denying reality, biology-chromosomes- is going to help them. You can't change your biology by choppjng away at your body. Cutting your arms and legs off doesn't magically make you a biological snake and hacking off your genitals doesn't make you a different gender. Post-op trans people have the same suicide rate as pre-op trans people. IT DOESN'T WORK. Stop encouraging the mentally ill to destroy their bodies on their delusional whims. Disgusting and shameful.

This is showmanship at its worst. I can't help feeling that this falls under the same umbrella as the Kardashian money making schemes. No matter what gender he/she proclaims to be, living a luxurious lifestyle doesn't equate to the thousands of other transgender people leading every day lives. They are the ones in genuine need of support, comfort ,and understanding of the many difficult decisions and choices faced on their journey to individual fulfilment.

About the author

Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.