Here are 16 of the most amazing things we learned from Jenner’s surprisingly touching, honest memoir.

After the Olympics, Jenner dressed in drag for a skit on a Bob Hope special.

Her first wife, Chrystie, is shocked when she learns of Jenner’s gender dysphoria.

“I told Chrystie in 1973 about my gender issues.

When she asked me about it, my first response was noncommittal:

Gee, I don’t know.

It was not very convincing… there was no way out.

That’s why the rubber band, because I’ve been wearing your clothes.”

Her second marriage ends when wife Linda sees Jenner in women’s clothing.

“In that room I felt she was revolted by me.

I know she did not mean to, but her reaction was my greatest fear realized.”

I can tell he is surprised.

Oh my God, what are you doing!?

I’m going to a Halloween party!

It is a close call."

In the mid-1980s, Jenner sets aside a bedroom in her house for her collection of women’s clothing.

“My mom visits me once, sees them, and is happy I have a girlfriend.”

“So I stop going through transition in 1989.

I can’t do this to my kids.

I can’t do this to me.

I can’t do this to society.

It is not ready.

I have to get back in the game.

I have to once again establish Bruce as the dominant presence, no matter how much I loathe him.

I need cover again….

Which is when Kris Kardashian and Bruce Jenner improbably find each other.”

When Jenner first begins hormone therapy, in the 1980s, her breasts quickly develop into 36Bs.

She is clearly startled.

She feels something she did not expect.

What are those?!

They’re bigger than mine!

I don’t miss a beat [on the show]… Nobody says anything else."

“The procedure is easy.

But from the vantage point of myself I am sad….”

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During Jenner’s marriage to Kris, she has very little autonomy.

“I do not have a checking account.

I have a credit card, but purchases are carefully pored over.

Kris is incredibly generous on her terms.”

Jenner admits she was a poor dad to her oldest four kids after marrying Kris.

“I had to do whatever it took to make them a part of my life.

I needed to assert myself.

But I could not.

So I let go of them, which is a softer way of saying I abandoned them.

Because I did abandon them.”

Jenner says she was honest with Kris about her gender dysphoria and the two came to an agreement.

“Take Caitlyn on the road but she is not to play in our home or hometown.”

“The Kardashian side feels slighted by their noticeable absence.

They are right to feel slighted.

I am also tired of tucking in the damn thing all the time.”