Bruce Jenner won’t issue a statement about InTouch cover, he’ll address it on KUWTK

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As you know, Bruce Jenner was the victim of a nasty piece of transphobia on the cover of In Touch this week. In Touch photoshopped his head on the body of Dynasty star Stephanie Beacham, who was wearing a jaunty scarf and red suit jacket. They also painted lipstick on him and made the headline deliberately misleading to give the impression that they had an interview with Bruce. Many people fell for In Touch’s cover; I saw a woman reading the article in a store on Monday, looking confused. I told her Bruces’ head was photoshopped on someone else’s body with lipstick added and she said “I thought so.”

Bruce has been making changes with his outside appearance, but he hasn’t made a public comment about it and it’s all been speculation up to this point. We don’t know if he’s transitioning and it’s up to him whether or not he wants to say anything about it. Many people have publicly supported Bruce including comedian Russell Brand, who called this bullying and said that “Transphobia seems to be the most recent and encouraged form of prejudice now that racism and homophobia are not tolerated… Stop. Bruce Jenner is a human being.” GLAAD also issued a statement about this cover, their president Sarah Kate Ellis wrote thatThis nonsense has to end. It’s long past time that media outlets stop gossiping about Bruce Jenner’s gender.”

Bruce’s daughters have also been supporting him. Khloe instagrammed this photo on Monday of all the Jenner-Kardashian girls with their dad. This is sweet. Look at Kim all stony-faced in the corner though.

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As for how this cover came about, The NY Daily News reports that In Touch has a longstanding beef with The Kardashians, and that a source told them that the publication feels betrayed “that the family used them to get famous, then dumped them.” Kris Jenner isn’t taking this sitting down. She has “banned Touch, Life & Style and all Bauer publications… from Kardashian-Jenner red carpets, events, premieres and fashion events.” Good for her.

Kris has also reportedly been pressuring Bruce to make a statement about the fact that he’s made some changes. According to Radar, she wants him to firmly deny the rumors that he’s getting a sex change. Their source claims that Bruce has chosen to remain silent and that “this is extremely sensitive for [him] and it’s his choice not to address it.

US Weekly claims that Bruce “was upset by InTouch’s story” and will address this on the show, though. They state that “Bruce and Kris [will] address his changing appearance in a scene they shot together. It will be a plotline.” While I sideeye anything that’s a plotline on KUWTK, I do respect Bruce’s right to tell his side of the story his way at a time he’s comfortable with it. I hope he doesn’t feel pressured to address this if he’s not ready. For everything I can say about Kris Jenner, she does seem protective of Bruce. Still, ratings come first.

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  1. Mrs. Wellen Melon says:

    It’s a trial balloon for Bruce’s spinoff.

  2. Talie says:

    Kendall and her two brothers seem to be the most authentically close to Bruce. Kylie is slowly becoming an anime character.

    Bruce supposedly hired Howard Bragman to engineer his reveal.

    • Joy says:

      Kylie has morphed into Kim’s original face. Where will she go from here?

    • M.A.F. says:

      Kylie has also been a lost child since the second season. I only say second season because prior to the show no one knew who these people were. After season one people did. She got lost along the way and it shows.

  3. Tifygodess24 says:

    Call me cynical but I’m still not convinced Kris didnt have something to do with that magazine cover ESPECIALLY since they are using it as a plot for the show. They will do anything and everything to stay relevant.

  4. kri says:

    I just cannot get over the vileness of In Touch. Sick bastards, I don’t know what is going on w/ Bruce…I just wish he would be able to have some peace. It’s always about ratings for Kris Jenner. I have a bad feeling that she will throw him to the wolves if he doesn’t play along with her.I wish him happy with whatever he does.

  5. embertine says:

    Kim is only stony-faced because she is no longer capable of moving her facial muscles. I’m sure inside she is feeling the love. Bwuahahahaha.

  6. Dani2 says:

    It angers me that he should even have to acknowledge that low life magazine. What they did was so unnecessary.

  7. minx says:

    It would be so ironic if this horrible trashy show ended up doing some good on this subject–maybe giving a public face to transpeople and their difficulties.

    When I hear, though, that Kris is “denying that he’s getting sex change” I want to throw something. I fear they will try to whitewash it as, oh, he just likes to paint his nails, get his Adam’s apple shaved, doesn’t every man?

  8. maeliz says:

    To see Bruce picked on like that is awful. Of course Kris will talk with him on the show about all this to get people to watch. Bruce is the only one in the family who is famous for a real reason.

  9. roxy750 says:

    People need to stop putting labels on EVERYTHING> IT’s not transphobwhatever. Face it, mean is mean. Nasty is nasty and this was obviously RUDE and in poor taste and shameful. It was mean. I wish people would stop perpetuating putting a name to everything. Human nature is people can be mean. AND for a BUSINESS like a magazine company to do this is straight up atrocious! It’s super immature and high school crap! Straight from the junior high!

  10. scout says:

    I honestly don’t think he is turning into anything, just a insecure guy. He probably just wants to do whatever he was not allowed to do being married to Kris and now that he is free, he wants to look younger (few surgical tweaks) and dress as he wants to, including growing his hair long. Bruce should sue that magazine to make up something like this photo so blatantly though.

    Changing appearances happens! Have you seen Mickey Rourke lately? He was all handsome manly dude in the past, with a young girlfriend even now but all those plastic surgeries to make himself look attractive has backfired! Bruce is heading that way unfortunately.

    http://www.biography.com/people/mickey-rourke-9465337

  11. Lucy-lala says:

    I don’t really follow the kardashian’s. I don’t watch their show, either. I’m more familiar with Jenner as an Olympiad then anything else.

    I’m curious…. is he really ‘transitioning’? Is this business for real, or is this all just trash talk by trash magazines? Someone please fill me in. Thanks 🙂

    • RJ says:

      From what I’ve read, he’s always had a really hard time psychologically with aging in general and got some horrifically botched plastic surgery very early on, which coincided with the time he hooked up with Pimp Momma Kardashian-PMK) I don’t know how much is him “transitioning”, and how much is trying to cling to the vestiges of his youth (long hair was cool back in the 70s!), or just him trolling the public for ratings & silly kicks because he truly doesn’t GAF (things like wearing nail polish, etc.). He did come across on the show as being completely emasculated and bossed/pushed around by PMK. Sad how people whore themselves for reality show “fame”. I hope he’s getting some quiet quality time on the beach in Malibu.

  12. Dawn says:

    And any respect I had left for the man which isn’t much just went out the window. I now don’t give two snaps about Bruce, Kris Jenner or any off spring of the two. They are now equally as awful in my eyes at least. I wish the whole bunch would just disappear from everything be it television, twitter and instagram or the cover of magazines. They are all so draining.

  13. word says:

    Of course they are going to use this for ratings. What else is new?

  14. Sea Dragon says:

    The worst mistake Bruce ever made was to marry Chris and not just because she’s perverted the children, though I believe that’s the bulk of why.

    I feel for Bruce’s struggle. He divorced the Pimp, right? Why should he have to interact with her at all let alone appear on the show? (I don’t watch so maybe that’s a logical explanation I’m not aware of.) He seems to want his private life to remain private but Kris still controls his agenda.

    I do think he’s transitioning and thank God we have the technology to allow for it. I suspect he’s wanted the change for decades but he’s had to (forgive me) keep up with appearances. He’s a legitimate figure in pop culture so there’s no avoiding the intolerance and cruelty but I, on the other hand, hope he finds the peace he’s always sought.

  15. serena says:

    On another note, this family knows no colour. So gloomy.

  16. Dotty says:

    It’s private! And a plot line!
    so, not private then.

  17. me says:

    How many times do you think they took that pic before all of them agreed it was good enough to post?

  18. katy says:

    “Many people have publicly supported Bruce including comedian Russell Brand, who called this bullying and said that “Transphobia seems to be the most recent and encouraged form of prejudice now that racism and homophobia are not tolerated… Stop. Bruce Jenner is a human being.” GLAAD also issued a statement about this cover, their president Sarah Kate Ellis wrote that “This nonsense has to end. It’s long past time that media outlets stop gossiping about Bruce Jenner’s gender.””

    …anybody think that maybe he doesn’t want all these statements about his personal decisions? Nobody knows about what he is going through, why can’t this cover just be ignored and treated like the bull crap that it is, like Bruce seems to want, and just leave it alone?