Born on 28th October 1949, Bruce Jenner is a famous television personality of America along with a retired Olympian bagging a gold medal-win in decathlete. Jenner is now known as Caitlyn Jenner and was formerly known as Bruce Jenner.
Jenner was a football player at college for the team named Graceland Yellowjackets while she incurred a injury in the knee which required surgery. Jenner was born to Esther Ruth and William Hugh Jenner in Mount Kisco at New York.
Bruce attended high school in Sleepy Hollow, New York in Sleepy Hollow High School for the freshman years. For the junior and senior years, Jenner studied in Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut while graduating in 1968.
Though Bruce had suffered a knee injury in the former years of her life, but coach persuaded Jenner to go for the decathlon. Further, Jenner undertook intense training after which Jenner won the 1976 Olympics decathlon at the Montreal Summer Olympics held in Montreal where he gained fame as a hero.
Jenner was so good with the skills that it bagged her world record in successive years while making a win at the Olympics. She received the title of “world’s greatest athlete” and with this stature, she established a strong career in the field of television, writing, film, business, auto racing and also as a ‘Playgirl’ cover model.
She came out as a trans woman in April 2015 where she publicly changed her name to Caitlyn in the cover story of Vanity Fair. The gender and name change became official in 2015. She also has been referred as extremely famous openly trans woman in the whole wide world. She currently stars in the popular reality television series which brings a focus on the change of her gender. But however, the events and medals of the grand event were all performed before the transition and are for men’s events.
After her graduation from Graceland, she got married to girlfriend while shifted to San Jose situated in California. There were varied successful events which were performed on the second day comprising of hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin along with 1500 meters.
Jenner gained immense Olympic success and was a champion of America in the year 1974 in the decathlon event of men. She was also featured on the cover of the famous magazine named Track & Field News magazine of the issue 1974.
Jenner further won the national championship of France while on tour in the year 1975. This was followed by her setting new set of world records of whooping 8,538 points. At the Olympic Games which was held in Montreal, Jenner had achieved on the very first day of the men’s decathlon. Post her Olympic career, she appeared on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ on August 9, 1976.
She also appeared on the 1979 February issue of ‘Gentleman’s Quarterly’ along with the cover of ‘Playgirl’ magazine. Further, Jenner also became spokesperson for Minolta, Tropicana and Buster Brown Shoes.
In the year 1977, Jenner also became a spokesperson for Wheaties brand breakfast cereal while appearing on the iconic front of the cereal box. Post her Olympic career, she tried her luck in the field of television and film where she excelled as well. She starred in the disco-era Village People comedy Can’t Stop the Music (1980) but the movie had flopped.
However, Jenner further saw some success with a television career in The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story along with Grambling’s White Tiger in the year 1981. Further, during the season of 1981-1982 season, Jenner became a semi-regular cast member in the police series CHiPs. She also appeared in an episode of the sitcom Silver Spoons named “Trouble with Words” where her personal issues of dyslexia were revealed.
Jenner further appeared in the series “learn to Read” in addition to the video games “Olympic Decathlon” and “Bruce Jenner’s World Class Decathlon”. In addition to these, she appeared in varied game shows and reality television programs. She also had an extremely successful motorsports career where she excelled as a successful race car driver. She further deals with business and has her own company named Bruce Jenner Aviation where she sells aircraft supplies to corporations and executives.
In March 2016, Jenner further announced that she had been chosen as the face of H&M Sport. She wonderfully came out as a transgender woman in her personal life and H&M even created a six-minute film which features Jenner.
Bruce Jenner has achieved an estimated net worth of $100 Million.
Quick Summary:
Full name: Formerly known as Bruce Jenner, presently known as Caitlyn Jenner
Date of birth: October 28, 1949
Birth place: Mount Kisco, New York, United States
Age: 67 years
Profession: Retired Olympic decathlete, TV personality, Public Speaker, Sports commentator
Height: 1.88 m
Weight: 88 kg
Net worth: $100 Million