Caitlyn Jenner is an American media personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.
She was born and brought up in a middle-class Christian family from Mount Kisco, New York, the United States. She is an American by nationality and has her belief in the Christianity religion.
She later enrolled herself at Graceland University (BS) in New York, the United States from where she completed her graduation. From the very beginning of her childhood, she was more interested in sports and other co-curricular activities rather than studying.
She completed her early education at Newton High School in Mount Kisco, New York, United States.
Full Name: Caitlyn Marie Jenner
Date of Birth: October 28, 1949
Age: 72
Place Of Birth: Mount Kisco, New York, U.S.
Networth: $100 million
Career:
At the 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, Jenner was eleventh after the first day in the men’s decathlon and climbed to fifth behind Steve Gough and Andrew Pettes with one event remaining on the Fourth of July. Needing to make up a 19-second gap on Gough in the 1500 meters, Jenner qualified for the Olympic team by finishing first, 22 seconds ahead of the others.
This prompted the Eugene Register-Guard to ask: “Who’s Jenner?” Following the trials, Jenner was tenth in the decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. By watching Soviet Mykola Avilov win the event, Jenner was inspired to start an intense training regimen.
Jenner began television appearances in the mid-1970s, both as herself and in character roles. One of Jenner’s first recurring television roles was as a co-host of the short-lived daytime talk and variety series America Alive! in 1978.
Jenner also appeared in an episode of the sitcom Silver Spoons called “Trouble with Words”, wherein her personal issues with dyslexia were revealed in a storyline about a recurring teenage character with the same problem.
In January 2002, Jenner participated in an episode of the American series The Weakest Link, featuring Olympic athletes. In February and March 2003, Jenner was part of the cast of the American series I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
She made a cameo appearance in a season-three episode of The Apprentice, which aired in May 2005.
She also partnered with Tai Babilonia for Skating with Celebrities in a series that aired January – March 2006 (they were eliminated during the fifth of seven episodes), served as a guest judge on Pet Star on Animal Planet.
In November 2010, a photograph of Jenner was shown in a janitor’s resume in an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Jenner had a short career as a race car driver in the IMSA Camel GT series (International Motor Sports Association) in the 1980s.
Jenner’s first victory came in the 1986 12 hours of Sebring in the IMSA GTO class driving the 7-Eleven Roush Racing Ford Mustang with co-driver Scott Pruett. The pair won their class and finished 4th overall in the 12-hour endurance race. 1986 was also the most successful year of Jenner’s career, finishing second in the championship to Pruett.
Personal Life: Before her public gender transition, Jenner had been married three times, first to Chrystie Scott (née Crownover) from 1972 to 1981. They have two children, son Burt and daughter Cassandra “Casey” Marino (née Jenner). Jenner and Scott’s divorce was finalized the first week of January 1981.
On January 5, 1981, Jenner married actress Linda Thompson in Hawaii. They have two sons together, Brandon and Brody. By February 1986, Jenner and Thompson had separated and subsequently divorced.
Their sons later starred on the reality show The Princes of Malibu, and Brody appeared in the reality show The Hills.
On April 21, 1991, Jenner married Kris Kardashian (née Houghton) after five months of dating. They have two daughters, Kendall and Kylie. Kris filed for divorce in September 2014, citing irreconcilable differences.
Political Career:
Jenner is a Christian, leans towards political conservatism, and is a Republican. She describes herself as socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Although stopping short of an endorsement, Jenner said she liked Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. On her reality show I Am Cait, Jenner said that although she does not support Donald Trump, she thinks he would be good for women’s issues; she then stated she would never support Hillary Clinton.