Caitlyn’s mum says (s)he’ll always be Bruce to me

Sixty-five years ago Esther Jenner gave birth to a baby boy and she and her husband William named him Bruce.

And that’s the way it’s going to stay even though ‘he’ is now a ‘she’ and goes by the chosen name of Caitlyn.

Esther Jenner said she’s very happy for her child but will still call him Bruce because that was what her and his father named him 65years ago.

She said, “It’s going to be a struggle for me to get used to the change, but happily so…’I’m very happy for him – or her”.

Esther revealed that she had met Caitlyn, Bruce’s female side, prior to the release of the Vanity Fair cover.

According to her, “I was there last week, well actually, I got home a week and a half ago. And I met Caitlyn. She is… so much more at ease,’ she said. ‘She’s beautiful”.

Bruce Jenner made his debut as Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine on Monday. The cover star of the magazine’s July issue admits in the new interview: “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.”

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