‘I Have No More Secrets'

Nearly two years after introducing Caitlyn to the world, the former Olympian shares her incredible journey to womanhood— and true happiness— in a revealing new memoir

- Elizabeth Leonard

Caitlyn Jenner isn’t about to look like a grandma. On a spring day in L.A. she’s rocking black boots with heels and a short sweater-dress. “This is a young and hip, cute little look,” says Jenner, whose ensemble shows off her tanned legs—and a faint scar from a college football injury. “Am I going to dress like a 67-year-old? No! In actuality I’m 2 years old!”

Indeed, it’s been just 22 months since Caitlyn made her public debut on the cover of Vanity Fair, a culmination of her transition from Olympic icon to transgender woman. Since then her life has been a crash course in living freely as a female. In January she opted to undergo gender-reassignment surgery, but she downplays the significance.“Transitioning is about nothing else but your soul,” she tells People. “You are no more a woman the day after [the surgery] than the day before, okay?” As she explains in her new memoir The Secrets of My Life, excerpted here, “I (got) tired of tucking the damn thing in all the time.”

Long plagued by loneliness and shame that came with denying her true self, she is relishing the new freedom. “I am so happy and peaceful,” says Jenner, who has emerged as a passionate advocate for the transgender community and LGBTQ issues. “And I don’t have any secrets.” What’s more, she adds with a smile, “I’m having an extraordinary amount of fun.”

I am at the Marriott Hotel in Orlando giving The Speech. It is the 1990s. I know why people are here. To listen to the Bruce Jenner who won the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. Who became an American hero.