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You may have seen the cover of Vanity Fair magazine Monday that broke the internet and tossed the breaking news of a second child on-the-way for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West from the top of trending lists everywhere. It was of Kim’s step dad Bruce Jenner making his transition from Wheaties box covers to debuting on fashion/lifestyle magazine covers as “Caitlyn.” The magazine cover of Caitlyn Jenner was shot by famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. Caitlyn’s mother, Esther, reacted to seeing her child in a new way. She says the 65-year-old former Olympic decathlon gold medalist will always be “Bruce” to her and that’s what she’ll have to call him because, “his father and I named him that.” She told this to “Access Hollywood,” but added that Caitlyn is truly “beautiful, and looks so much more at ease” since the transition. Caitlyn also launched new social media to go along with her transition to a transgender woman breaking the record for one million Twitter followers in four hours and three minutes, according to Guinness World Records surpassing the record broken by President Obama just two weeks ago. Caitlyn responded on Twitter with grace and humor:
On the heels of the cover launch, all-sports television network ESPN says it will honor Caitlyn with the “Arthur Ashe Courage Award” at next month’s ESPY awards, also known as the ESPY’s. ESPN says Jenner’s athletic prowess and determination at the Olympics as well as the strength of character displayed in her nationally televised interview with Diane Sawyer were the main factors for their decision. Caitlyn won the decathlon gold medal as “Bruce” at the 1976 games. Ashe is a former world number one-ranked tennis player who died of AIDS complications in 1993 after contracting HIV through a blood transfusion.
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