Bruce Jenner

On December 15, 1972, he married Chrystie Crownover. This lasted till Jan 2, 1981. He has two children with her, Burton William ‘Burt’ Jenner and Cassandra Lynn "Casey" Jenner.

In 1981, he married for the second time to Linda Thompson and has two sons with her namely, Brandon Thompson and Sam Brondy. They appeared in their own reality show ‘The Princes of Malibu’ featuring their step-father David Foster.

On April 21, 1991, he married Kris Kardashian after dating her for five months and has two daughters with Kris - Kendall Nicole and Kylie Kristen. He is also the step-father of Kris' four children from her previous marriage - Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Rob Kardashian. His professional career evolved into being a television celebrity since he appeared with his blended family in ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians, produced by Kris. The Jenners announced their separation in October 2013 and Kris Jenner filed for divorce in September 2014.

He was born to a tree surgeon, William Hugh Jenner and his wife Estelle Jenner and was second among their seven children. His grandfather was also an athlete who had participated in the Boston Marathon several times.

He attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut after spending a year at Sleepy Hollow High School in Sleepy Hollow, New York. While in fifth grade, he and his teachers realized his athletic abilities and incorporated him into the school’s football, basketball and track teams.

After graduating from high school, he soon went to Graceland University, Iowa on a football scholarship but a knee-injury forced him to stop playing football. But after 16 months he completed his first decathlon at the Drake relays gaining fifth position.

Graceland’s track coach L. D. Weldon was the first to recognize his athletic abilities and worked hard with him towards enhancing his potential in decathlon.

In 1972, he secured third position in the decathlon at the US Olympic trials and finished at the tenth place at the Munich Olympics. Thereafter, he underwent rigorous training at the San Jose City college track.

He won the gold medal in decathlon at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, setting the world record of 8616 points, which was later broken by Daley Thompson in 1980.

After winning in Montreal, he gave up vaulting. He quickly set out to cash in his popularity and bagged several commercials. He was shown as ‘Wheaties champion’ on the front of Wheaties brand breakfast cereal. In 1977, he was selected by Kansas city kings with the 139th pick of the NBA draft

Jenner also starred in two movies after his Olympics success but they did not get success at the box office. It included ‘Can’t stop the music’ (1980), a disco era comedy about the singing group, ‘The Village People’ and ‘Jack and Jill’ (2011) with Al Pacino.

In 1980, he started his television career starring in the TV movies, ‘The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story’ (1980), and ‘Grambling white tiger’ (1981). He became a guest-starring police officer in the police series ‘CHiPs’ for six episodes. He also appeared in the two video games ‘Olympic Decathlon’ (1980), and ‘Bruce Jenner’s world class decathlon’ (1996).

In late 2007, he starred in a reality series, ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’. Wife Kris Jenner, step-children Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Rob and daughters Kylie and Kendall also featured in the show. The show was a hit and is among the highest-rated series.

In 1980s, he was the marketing name for Bruce Jenner's Westwood Centers for Nautilus & Aerobics. He owns a company named ‘Bruce Jenner Aviation, which sells aircraft supplies to corporate houses. He was also the business development vice president for a staffing industry software application known as ‘JennerNet,’