Bruce Jenner sat down with Diane Sawyer Friday night and revealed "for all intents and purposes, I am a woman."
Below are quotes from the interview (developing):
"I've always been very confused with my gender identity since I was little."
"I explain it this way -- God is looking down making little Bruce. He gave me all these wonderful qualities. Then at the end, he looked at me and said, 'Hey, let's give him the soul of a female and see how he deals with that.'"
"My brain is much more female than I am male. But that's what my soul is."
"I look at it this way -- Bruce is telling a lie. I can't do that any longer."
"Yes, for all intents and purposes I am a woman."
"My heart and my soul and everything I do in life is part of me. That female side of me is who I am."
"As of now I have all the male parts, but I still identify as female."
"Why is this so hard to say? I don't want to disappoint people."
"I really believe we're going to make a difference in this world from what we're doing (the interview)."
His first wife, Christy, was the first person he told his secret to.
"My gender was a big part of my break up" to Linda Thompson in 1984.
"I wasn't as fair to my ex-wives as I should have been. I've apologized to everybody."
Approaching age 40, 30 years ago, he began to transition and did hormones for "almost five years."
Jenner told his sister, who kept the secret for over 30 years.
"I just can't pull the curtain any longer...I can't do it anymore."
"Being Bruce isn't easy... it's never going away."
"This is not a publicity stunt."
"I told my mom she didn't cause this."
"I've raised wonderful children The first child I ever told was Kimberly. She caught me one time. It was like this big secret in the family that we never talked about again until years later."
When he met Kris Jenner, he was on hormones and had size 36B breasts.
"Kris is a good woman."
Kris Jenner had "no comment" on the Diane Sawyer interview, but Bruce's first two wives sent in well wishes."
Son Brandon told Diane Sawyer of Bruce Jenner: "I'm honored and more proud than ever to be a part of this family."
A few months ago Jenner called the family into a room and told them he wanted to transition. The reactions were varied, because the kids are all very protective.
"Khloe has had the toughest time with it, she's had a lot of loss in her life."
Kim Kardashian said Kanye was the one who opened her eyes to people being "true to myself."
"Kimberly has been, by far, the most accepting and easiest to talk to about it."
"If he's happy, we're happy," Kendall and Kylie Jenner said in a statement to ABC.
"I would like to work with the [transgender] community to get this message out."
"I had a feeling in church that maybe this is why god put me on this earth, to deal with this issue."
Watch a clip from the interview below:
There has been plenty of online chatter:
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