In Vanity Fair's sprawling June cover story, Caitlyn (née Bruce) Jenner talks about a lifetime of longing and the pain of denying a gender identity that felt natural and inevitable.
The profile, available on newsstands June 9, is a closeup on Jenner's life, touching on her fractured relationship with some of her children, the divorce from Kris Jenner, and the reason why she's doing a reality show.
Jenner announced her decision to transition in an April interview with Diane Sawyer. She appears as Caitlyn for the first time stunning in Badgley Mischka and Zac Posen gowns, no less in the Vanity Fair article.
Here are the five most important things you should know about the story:
1. Jenner always felt female.
Jenner began expressing a female gender identity as early as 10 years old, when she would sneak clothes out of her mother's or sister's closet. She described putting on a dress and wrapping a scarf around her head, and feeling "fascinated by it all" but terrified that someone might find out.