• Caitlyn Jenner posing on the cover of Sports Illustrated's new issue, 40 years after winning the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.

Caitlyn Jenner posing on the cover of Sports Illustrated's new issue, 40 years after winning the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. (Photo : Twitter/@SInow)

Caitlyn Jenner graced the cover of the latest issue of Sports Illustrated to mark the 40th anniversary of her iconic decathlon win at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, and opened up about how she hated her life as Bruce.

Jenner, who donned the gold medal on the magazine's cover for the first time in four decades, revealed that while fans were going crazy over the former Olympian's chiseled body, she found it disgusting and considered going under the knife.

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"I was big and thick and masculine," she told Sports Illustrated. "The rest of the world thought it was this Greek god kind of body. But I hated it. But it's what I was given, so I just tried to do the best I could with it."

The 66-year-old also said that she even though she's left Bruce in her past, she admired his accomplishments and the way he inspired others to work hard. Caitlyn added that she's proud of her former life as the athlete but there was a woman living inside of her since then and she had reached a point where she had to let her out.

However, the "I Am Cait" star pointed out that she did have confused feelings about her sexuality and used her macho male image to convince herself that the woman inside of her did not exist.

Caitlyn noted that she considered transitioning into a woman before the age of 40, in the late 1980s, but the timing just wasn't right.

"It wasn't time in my life, and it wasn't time in society," she said. "The issue was totally misunderstood."

Last month, there were reports that Jenner would feature naked on the cover of the sports magazine, wearing nothing more than an American flag and her gold medal, as previously reported.

Jenner took to Twitter on Tuesday (June 28) to express her excitement about revisiting the 1976 Olympics.


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