Kourtney hasn’t been here and hasn’t met Caitlyn… “I was wrong. I am more proud of him for the courage he has shown” here. Not only is the series a no-holds-barred look behind the scenes at key moments in Caitlyn Jenner’s coming-out journey-with family, friends, Kim, and Kanye (showing off his new Yeezy Boost 350s)-it’s candid, poignant, charming, and amusing.
So I Am Cait builds in a sense of mission beyond its star subject. Kylie then calls Caitlyn via Facetime, and inadvertently meets Caitlyn face-to-face for the first time.
Fittingly, “I Am Cait” (premiering Sunday at 8 p.m. EDT on E!) opens with the former Bruce Jenner, her ample tresses in huge rollers, at home getting hair-and-makeup treatment as she beholds a giant blowup of her bombshell Vanity Fair cover that followed her April interview with Diane Sawyer.
While the network has not commented on the hires or made any of the consultants available to the media, THR reached out to others in the transgender community for comment. Are they saying I’m handsome because they couldn’t tell I’m trans?
“But at the ESPYs, I really had to stick to the prompter because I only had a certain number of minutes to make it right, to get my points across”. She talks with the mother, trying to connect her own story to the late teenager.
However, Cox said that she can not imagine having gone through her transition so publicly.
Kanye tells Caitlyn, “I think this is one of the strongest things that have happened in our, you know, existence as human beings that are so controlled by perception”. “Your daughter is a supermodel… you’re on TV… you were like, f*** it, this is who I am“. “I barely got through that”.
Caitlyn has a transgender expert come to the house to answer the family’s questions.
But once she started to give the speech, it didn’t become any easier to keep her emotions in check. That will never change. She repeatedly refers to Caitlyn as “Bruce” and “he”, admitting it’s going to take her some time to adjust.
Caitlyn Jenner showed off her giant and presumably expensive shoe collection on Twitter on Wednesday, giving a special shoutout to Khloe Kardashian.
“It only took five minutes for Kylie to adjust”, Caitlyn explains to the camera.
“Mom has that, too“, says Kim.
This is not Keeping Up With the Kardashians – or any incarnation of the long-running reality series and its several spinoffs and specials. Let them live their life normally! “With Bunim /Murray, it’s been the opposite of inspiration”. And then they never show up. But that doesn’t mean Caitlyn didn’t stress about how to introduce herself to her youngest daughter.
More to come… a teaser of the rest of the I Am Cait season raises plenty of questions.
Jenner’s mother will play a prominent role in the episode.
