Bruce Jenner has been unveiled as a woman on the cover of Vanity Fair.
The 65-year-old former decathlete is wearing a silky white basque, which reveal the results of Jenner's recent 36D breast implant surgery.
It also reveals Jenner's new name for the first time - Caitlyn. (She is understood to have avoided spelling the name with a 'K' in an effort to create an identity separate to the Kardashian clan).
The reality TV star also set up a verified Twitter account under Caitlyn Jenner - quickly amassing more than 1 million followers - where she shared her cover and wrote: 'I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self.
'Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.'
During the Vanity Fair interview, Jenner revealed she had a panic attack at one point during the transition.
'"What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?'" Caitlyn told author Buzz Bissinger she was left wondering, after waking up from a 10-hour facial feminization surgery on March 15, worried she had gone too far.
But after calling a counselor from the Los Angeles Gender Center, who made a house call to Jenner's Malibu home, she realized the doubt and second-guessing was 'human and temporary'.
In fact, she said that shooting the cover was better than winning the Olympics.
'That was a good day, but the last couple of days were better,' Caitlyn told the magazine.
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz shot the cover at Caitlyn's palatial Malibu home. Leibovitz is one of the most renowned celebrity photographers, having shot many classic covers for Vanity Fair, including Demi Moore posing naked when pregnant.
Inside the magazine, Caitlyn is pictured wearing five more outfits and in an accompanying YouTube video, which shows the shoot taking place, Jenner talks about her relief at having no secrets anymore.
Expanding on her feelings about doing the Vanity Fair cover, Caitlyn continued: 'The last few days of doing this shoot was about my life and who I am as a person.
'It's not about the fanfare, it's not about the people cheering in the stadium, its not about going down the street getting an ''Atta boy Bruce' pat on the back, okay, this is about your life.
'Soon as the Vanity Fair cover comes out, I'm free.'
That being said, Caitlyn admitted that she is still having a little trouble when it comes to her new pronoun, and for that reason does not immediately get offended when others get it wrong.
'I don't really get hung up,' she said.
'A guy came in the other day and I was fully dressed - it's just habit, I said, "Hi, Bruce here," and I went, "Oh fu*k, it ain't Bruce," I was screwing up doing it.''
Caityln also opened up about introducing her female identity to eldest daughter Cassandra (also known as Casey).
'I was worried I wouldn't say the right things or act the right way or seem relaxed,' Caitlyn told Bissinger. But then Cassandra realized her father's happiness as Caitlyn and was at ease.
'We talked more than we ever have. We could just be girls together.'
His son Burt - who along with Cassandra is from his first marriage to Chrystie Scott, touched on Bruce being an absent father, but said: 'I have high hopes that Caitlyn is a better person than Bruce. I’m very much looking forward to that.'
Brandon and Brody - whose girlfriend coincidentally called Kaitlynn (Carter) - also spoke to Vanity Fair (they are his sons from his second marriage, to Linda Thompson).
Their contribution reveals that Brandon was somewhat taken aback when he saw Caitlyn for the first time, and that she revealed the results of her breast implant surgery to him.
'Whoa, I’m still your son,' he reminded her.
Caitlyn also took time to address those who have said they think this all a publicity stuff, and a way to make more money.
'''Oh, she's doing a stupid reality show. She's doing it for the money. She's doing this, she's doing that,''' said Caitlyn of her detractors objections.
'I'm not doing it for money. I'm doing it to help my soul and help other people.
'If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid. [I have] house payments and all that kind of stuff. I will never make an excuse for something like that. Yeah, this is a business. You don't go out and change your gender for a television show. O.K., it ain't happening. I don't care who you are.'
In true competitive Kardashian fashion, the explosive Vanity Fair cover was released less than 24 hours after his stepdaughter Kim Kardashian revealed her second pregnancy at the end of Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Its release also follows Jenner's recent tell-all interview to ABC's Diane Sawyer, where the KUWTK reality star confirmed rife speculation about her gender reassignment.
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