‘I tell Kris about my gender issues before I make love to her’

Jenner says ex-wife misread new memoir

After releasing her new tellall memoir this month, The Secrets of My Life, Caitlyn Jenner has been left on the defensive with former wife Kris Jenner, who has said she feels it makes her out to be a “b-tch and an a--hole.”

On the show, Kris said to her daughters, in tears, “I read it and basically the only nice thing she had to say was that I was great socially at a party one time,” Kris told Kim and Khloe in the clip. “None of it makes sense. Everything she says is all made up. Why does everything have to be that Kris is such a b-tch and an a--hole? ... I’ve done nothing but open up my home and my heart to a person who doesn’t give a sh-t. So, I’m done. I’ve never been so angry and disappointed in somebody in my whole life.”

In a new interview on Facebook Live, Jenner responded to Kris’s comments, made on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, insisting, “I say so many nice things about Kris in that book, I do. ... She’s saying it on a reality show that has a lot of drama in it, (but) I guess it’s real in her heart. It’s not just that. It’s disappointing — I wish she hadn’t have gone there. It just didn’t need to be on television if there’s any problems.”

Kris has repeatedly denied knowing that Caitlyn, formerly Bruce, was struggling with her gender identity during their marriage, while Caitlyn has insisted the opposite.

“She says it’s all made up — it’s not," Jenner said. "Even when Kris and I were going our separate directions four years ago, I never thought I’d be able to transition. Not in a million years.”

Finally, Jenner dealt Kris one final blow (at least for now): “She can go write her own book. Maybe that’ll happen, but it wouldn’t be as juicy as mine.” In her book, Jenner said Kris knew about her struggle as early as the 1990s, writing, “I tell Kris about my gender issues before I make love to her.” But, she added, “This will always be a subject of dispute between Kris and me as to how much she could intuit about my gender issues. She insists she was taken by surprise by my ultimate transition to Caitlyn.” In her 2015 interview with Diane Sawyer, Jenner claimed Kris had been aware that she had been taking female hormones for five years during their marriage, which enhanced her chest (“you can’t hide those things”). But, she said at the time, “I downplayed it. I feel in a lot of ways when you love someone you don’t want to hurt them.” For her part, Kris has insisted she never knew the extent of it, and had assumed Jenner sometimes liked to wear women’s clothes: “When I met Bruce, he told me that he had done hormones back in the early ’80s. This was a conversation that took place in the early ’90s. So, what he was telling me happened a decade earlier, and he never really explained it.”

During an interview this week on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jenner was joined by writer Buzz Bissinger, who co-authored her novel and penned the original Vanity Fair cover story in which she officially came out. Bissinger went into a tirade against Kris, accusing her of using “crocodile tears.”

“She is full of sh-t,” Bissinger said. “If you were with someone who had breasts from hormones, who was taking hormones and later had to have those breasts removed, wouldn’t you start to think that something was up with that person?”

He went on to say that Kris’s comments were merely “fodder for her fricking show,” and that she seems to have conveniently overlooked the other parts of the book that mention her in a positive light.

“We really worked to not be mean-spirited, to be honest and I feel that was accomplished,” Bissinger added.

In her memoir, Jenner is also particularly critical of the reality series, of which she was a willing participant for many years. But, she wrote, it was difficult to have Kris become the family breadwinner as she managed the show and the family finances, leaving Caitlyn feeling as though “I have sold myself out, willingly destroyed what positive reputation I have left.” Reflecting on the Sawyer interview, Caitlyn revealed that, although she had invited on her children from previous relationships, she did not invite any of the Kardashian children because she was afraid it would damage her reputation, leading many to question whether they were not supporting her transition, despite the fact they had made supportive comments on social media and on the series.

“The Kardashian side feels slighted by their noticeable absence. They are right to feel slighted,” Caitlyn wrote. “They were slighted on purpose because of research showing that anytime a Kardashian is on television, many in the public tend to think it is a publicity stunt to make money. I love my kids, and the last thing on Earth I ever want to do is somehow think I am rejecting them. But because of the research, I needed to build a wall and distance myself for this interview . ... But after all the time it took to get here, I needed to make clear that this is real, this is my life and not some publicity stunt.” So while the suggestion that Kris and the Kardashians have not been supportive may be good for sales, it also may not necessarily be the whole truth.

SHE INSISTS SHE WAS TAKEN SURPRISE BY MY (TRANSITION) TO CAITLYN.

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