Bruce Jenner identifies as female, the reality star confirmed to Diane Sawyer in an interview on Friday's "20/20."
"Are you a woman?" Diane asked.
"Yes, for all intents and purposes, I am a woman," Bruce told Diane in the opening moments of the special on ABC.
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"People look at me differently. They see you as this 'macho male,' but my heart and my soul and everything that I do in life, it is part of me. That female side is part of me. It's who I am," Bruce continued. "I was not genetically born that way. As of now, I have all the male parts and all that kind of stuff. So, in a lot of ways, we're different, OK, but we still identify as female. And that's very hard for Bruce Jenner to say. Because, why? I don't want to disappoint people."
The interview, which is currently airing on ABC, is an emotional one for the celeb, who had to wipe away tears at the start of the sitdown.
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