Caitlyn Jenner Makes Her First Talk Show Appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show
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When Caitlyn Jenner started her new life many accepted her and some not so much.
Throughout it all she's managed to have her own reality show and has even won an ESPY. Today, she made her first talk show appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show and it was very enlightening.
As if nothing's changed at all Jenner joked with Degeneres in the beginning of the interview making the moment pretty light for all of the crowd.
Degeneres stated that Jenner has stayed out of the press for the most part other than the Diane Sawyer interview and her ESPY Awards appearance and the asked Jenner how she felt.
"Fabulous," she replied to a gang of cheers from the studio audience.
"It has been such an experience to go through I'm just a very lucky person in so many ways.
My experience has been so different that the people in this community and I've learned that over the past few months in doing our show."
Degeneres said she is a fan of the show and she watches it every week. She says she thinks it's fantastic and educational as well as the fact that she hopes people are watching it.
"We have so many great people that are putting this show together, we're really trying to make a difference and educated people and open up a conversation so we can talk about this issue because it's out there and people are dying over this issue," Jenner said.
She said that her experience has been very different and she was pretty well receipted by fans. Jenner said she can relate to never feeling feminine but always feeling female. Jenner said she could live in a male world but she was always female inside.
Degeneres told Jenner that it's very interesting to see how Jenner experiences a new world that is completely different, however, she knew it was a world she wanted to be a part of. Jenner says she didn't make the change earlier because it simply wasn't the right time.
She told her story of trying to make the transition earlier but then getting to the age of 39 and said she just couldn't do it.
She says that raising the family is the best part of her life and a wonderful time to spend with her children, however, she began dealing with the same feelings all over again. Jenner said that God gave her all of these great qualities but decided no one can have so many great qualities and gave her the soul of a female.
That's the way she explained it to her kids and that's what leads her to believe that God put her on the Earth to talk about the issue of transgendered individuals.
She decided to rise above the media and all of the negativity and went to her PR person and wanted to get her story out.
Jenner confirmed that she did travel to her motivational speaking events as an athlete in plain clothes but wore a bra and panty under her clothes to feel more like a woman. She said she was very stealthy because she would quickly go back to her room, cross-dress walk around and no one would know.
Jenner was extremely open with other issues such as her marriage and initially being an opposer of gay marriage, her dating life, her family's reaction as well as a big surprise at the end for a transgendered woman named Blossom Brown.
It marks a huge return for Ellen Degeneres' show and the transgendered/LGBT community.