Brody Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner.
Getty Images (2)Brody Jenner says Caitlyn Jenner there is apologized for “not being there” when Brody was growing up.
“I just recently got a real, sincere apology,” Brody, 41, said of Caitlyn, 75, on the Jan. 15 episode, Wednesday Special Forces: The World’s Toughest Test. “It was the first time in my life that I got an apology. You know, ‘I’m sorry I’m not there,’ and honestly, that meant a lot.”
It’s no secret that Brody and Kaitlyn share complicated story. Long before he became a star of The hills or competitor of Special forcesBrody spent his formative years with a famous father who wasn’t always around. Caitlin, formerly Bruce, passed 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 recalls. “But mom used to tell me that I would write on the cards, ‘Why didn’t dad call me on my birthday?’
Keeping Brody Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner’s complicated relationship going can be easier said than done. Long before he was a star on 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 really struggled with (…)
Caitlin, who is a former Olympic decathlete and motivational speaker, has six children with three different wives: Burt Jenner and Cassandra Marino with Christy Scott, Brandon Jenner and Brody s Linda Thompson and Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner with Kris Jenner.
“I had an amazing mother,” Brody said Special forces. “Dad Bruce wasn’t around that much at the time. They broke up and then he met a woman. She also had children. The woman he met… they had children together.”
Caitlin appeared on Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007-2021) with ex-wife Kris and their daughters Kylie and Kendall, in addition to Kim, Courtney, Chloe and Rob Kardashian — Chris’s children from her previous marriage to the deceased Robert Kardashian.
Brody admitted that The Kardashian Show made him feel “a little left out,” but in retrospect, he understands that Caitlyn was “going through (her) own struggles, transitioning, and that’s all that was televised, and there were these moments that we would have that were filmed, and it just felt very invasive and not very real, I would say.”
Brody Jenner and Brandon Jenner haven’t always kept up with the Kardashians. Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Rob Kardashian gained four step-siblings – Burt Jenner, Kasey Jenner, Brandon and Brody – when Caitlyn Jenner married Kris Jenner in 1991. (The former Olympian, who passed in 2015, shares her two oldest children with an ex-wife (…)
When Brody “realized that Catelyn, or Bruce, wanted to be Catelyn, it was kind of a relief,” he shared. “I think there were a lot of things that started to make sense, you know, right in my life, about my dad and maybe why he wasn’t there all these years.”
Since then, Brody has gained a new perspective welcome my daughter with Tia Blanco in 2023
“I think without 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 daughter. I no longer live for myself. I live for her. … I think it will make me a better father.”
He added: “I’m going to do the exact opposite as far as being there for her like my dad did for me.”
