Caitlyn Jenner is currently in the middle of a massive publicity tour for her new tell-air memoir, The Secrets Of My Life, which hit stores Tuesday.After catching up with Diane Sawyer on Friday ' almost exactly two years after she came out as transgender on ABCs 20/20 ' Jenner made stops at Good Morning America, Fox News and Live With Kelly. And on Tuesday she dropped by HuffPost for an in depth, nearly hour-long interview.The 67-year-old Olympian and reality TV star was in high spirits and opened up about a wide range of topics, from President Donald Trump to Kendalls controversial Pepsi adto her beef with Ellen DeGeneres, as well as her thoughts on womanhood and being catcalled.On Trump and reconciling her identity as a Republican with her identity as a member of the transgender community:What Id say to Donald Trump is, Be true to yourself. You said during the whole campaignand actually I did talk to him during the campaign on the phone about transgender issues and the entire LGBT communityand he was nothing but in support. He was great on the phone and I complimented him I thought we might be OK here. But it turned around for me when the whole Title IX thing went downfunction onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); On Kim Kardashian being the first of her children she told about being trans and what Kim taught her about being a woman:Kim is so curious, so openminded. She goes, What the hell is going on with you' Eventually, years down the line [after I initially came out to Kim], I decided, OK, Im finally at a point in my life where my kids are all grown, its time for me, I have to live my life authentically, and I told Kim, I said, Im doing it, and her reaction was Well then, girl, youd better rock it! If youre going to do this, you cant go out and let the paparazzi get a picture of you just absolutely disheveledfunction onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_2'),onPlayerReadyVidible); On Kendall Jenners controversial Pepsi ad:Honestly I felt very sorry for Kendall. Its kind of like, sometimes, welcome to the real world. We live in a very tough political environment, social environment. You have massive amounts of media looking for a story and obviously some people were looking at that commercial very differently than the way I was looking at it. I get that. And Kendall gets that too. She didnt mean any malice. She goes, Im just a model that was hired for a job to go in there and do thisfunction onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_3'),onPlayerReadyVidible); On her feelings about Ellen DeGeneres, after claiming in her memoir that her appearance on the comedians showand DeGeneres subsequent actions further alienated [her]from members of the LGBTQ community:I dont hold a grudge against nobody. Would I do the show again' Ehh I dont know. Maybe itd be good to do the show just to get it out with Ellen. Id rather do it in private over dinner. I really dont want to do it publicly. I just was hurt by thatespecially because that was at the beginningfunction onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_4'),onPlayerReadyVidible); On womanhood and being catcalled:Yesterday we were walking over to Tavern On The Green and some guyit was like the construction worker guystarts yelling at me he was yelling some rude remark that youd say to some woman. And I just started laughing because I didnt grow up like that, as a woman who got all of that stuff. It was just kind of funny. It happens all the timethats what women go through. Courtney, my hairstylist, was with me and she goes [dismissively waves] yeah Shes used to that. Shes had all that yelling at but I havent. So, yeah, there are a lot of things in life ' of womanhood ' that I did not experience Ill always consider myself a trans woman because I missed a lot of stuff. And trans women are good!function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_5'),onPlayerReadyVidible); Caitlyn Jenners memoir, The Secrets Of My Life, is now available. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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