Brody Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner.
Getty Images (2)Brody Jenner says Caitlyn Jenner THERE apologized for “not being there” when Brody was growing up.
“Just recently, I got a real, honest apology,” Brody, 41, said to Caitlyn, 75, on the Wednesday, Jan. 15 episode of the show. Special Forces: The World’s Toughest Test. “It was the first time in my life that I apologized. You know, ‘I’m sorry I’m not there,’ and honestly, it would mean a lot.”
It’s no secret that Brody and Caitlyn share a complicated story. Long before I became a star hills or a competitor in Special ForcesBrody spent his formative years with a famous father who wasn’t always around. Caitlyn, formerly Bruce, transitioned in 2015 and since then their relationship has been “better,” Brody said on the Fox reality show.
When he was young, though, “I would occasionally see him — ‘him’ at the time — you know, here and there,” he recalled. “But my mom used to tell me that I would write on the cards, ‘Why doesn’t daddy call me on my birthday?’
Keeping up with Brody Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner’s complicated relationship can be easier said than done. Long before he became a star of The Hills or a contestant on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, Brody grew up with a famous father who wasn’t always around. “The big formative years for them, I was really struggling with (…)
Caitlyn, who is a former Olympian and motivational speaker, has six children with three different women: Burt Jenner AND Cassandra Marino with Chrystie Scott, Brandon Jenner and Brody with Linda Thompson AND Kendall Jenner AND Kylie Jenner with Kris Jenner.
“I had an incredible mother,” Brody said Special Forces. “Dad, Bruce, at the time, wasn’t around that much. They broke up and then he met a woman. She also had children. The woman he met… they had children together.”
Caitlyn appeared on Keeping up with the Kardashians (2007-2021) with ex-wife Kris and their daughters Kylie and Kendall, besides Kim, Kourtney, Khloé AND Rob Kardashian – Kris’s children from her previous marriage to the deceased Robert Kardashian.
Brody admitted that the Kardashians’ show had left him feeling “a little bit left out,” but in hindsight, he now realizes that Caitlyn was “going through (her) struggles, going through the transition, and it was all that appeared on TV, and there were these moments that we would have that were all filmed, and it just felt very invasive and not very real, I would say.”
Brody Jenner and Brandon Jenner don’t always keep up with the Kardashians. Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian and Rob Kardashian gained four ninjas — Burt Jenner, Casey Jenner, Brandon and Brody — when Caitlyn Jenner married Kris Jenner in 1991. (The former Olympian, who raised her two oldest children in in 2015, his ex-wife shares with him (…)
When Brody “found out that Caitlyn, or Bruce, wanted to be Caitlyn, it was kind of a relief,” he said. “I think there were a lot of things that started to make sense, you know, just in my life, about my dad, and maybe why he wasn’t there all those years.”
Brody has gained new perspective since then the hospitality of the daughter Honey with Tia Blanco in the year 2023.
“I think not having Bruce growing up and her making that transition, it was hard to just be her son,” he said in Special Forces. “I just had a beautiful little girl. I no longer live for myself. I live for it. … I think it will make me a better father.”
He added: “I’m going to do the exact opposite, just be there for him like my dad did for me.”
