Caitlyn Jenner, Formerly Known As Bruce, Makes Her Debut in Vanity Fair

Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympic athlete formerly known as Bruce, made her debut as a transgender woman, posing on the cover of Vanity Fair.

“Call me Caitlyn,” reads the cover headline for the July issue. The picture, shot by the magazine’s longtime star photographer, Annie Leibovitz, and the headline are the only things on the cover, usually crowded with headlines. Inside is an interview with Jenner by journalist Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights. Also, she joined Twitter as Caitlyn on Monday, with a “welcome to the world Caitlyn” message.

The last time Jenner was seen in the media was in April with ABC’s Diane Sawyer during a two-hour special, when he was still known as Bruce, did not wear women’s clothes and declined to disclose the new woman’s name.

Jenner, 65, speaks to the magazine about her transition, how she kept her sense of herself as a woman secret for nearly seven decades, through three marriages and 10 children and stepchildren.

“If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life,’ ” she said.