Jenner, 66, reveals in an interview with the magazine that the medal stays in a makeup drawer .
Curiously enough, Jenner continues to insist to be mum about any future plans to have gender reassignment surgery, saying: “It’s nobody’s business”.
Coming from a reality star that invited everyone into the nitty gritty details of their life it comes as a bit of an incredulous claim.
The cover photo also marks the first time Jenner has publicly worn the medal since winning it back in 1976 in Montreal some 40 years ago.
In the interview Jenner also speaks about living life now, and what that life looks like as a celebrity transgender advocate.
How putting on heels and changing your name compares to the runner’s high of an Olympic triumph isn’t quite clear…
Jenner also makes a point of stating that true feelings were never suppressed about which pronoun to identify as.
“Little Caitlyn has been in there since I was this big,’ says Jenner at one point in the interview, raising her hand just a few feet off the ground.”
“Sometimes she raised her cute little head more than others. I was female inside, but I wasn’t an effeminate male. So I could hide easily in the male world.”
But Jenner apparently resented being a world famous male athlete physically.
“It disgusted me. I was big and thick and masculine. The rest of the world thought it was this Greek god kind of body. I hated it,” says Jenner.
“But it’s what I was given, so I just tried to do the best I could with it.”
This feeling of disgust led Jenner to begin considering plastic surgery at a young age, wanting to have procedures done almost immediately after the Olympic Games.
“I was always considering plastic surgery,” says Jenner.
“When you’re gender dysphoric, you’re constantly looking at yourself and seeing things that don’t look right.”
