Jenner exceeds Obama and reaches 1 million Twitter followers … – Terra Brazil

The star of television and American former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce) opened on Monday its new Twitter account after changing gender and reached 1 million followers in four hours, a record that surpasses established by the US president, Barack Obama.

The account Jenner took exactly four hours and three minutes to reach a million followers, according to Guinness Book of Records, with which overtook the brand won just two weeks ago by Obama.

At the launch of his personal account verifiedPOTUS last May 19, Obama reached a million followers in five hours, a feat that no one had managed before.

“I am delighted that after so much struggle to live with myself. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn,” was the first message written by Jenner.

Twitter account of the launch coincided with the publication today in the magazine “Vanity Fair” of the first photos of Jenner after his change of identity and how transsexual.

Jenner, 65, spoke publicly for the first time after completing her gender transition in a report for the cover of the magazine’s July, and compared the two-day photo shoot, held by Annie Leibovitz, with the gold medal he won in the race of the decathlon at the Olympic Games in 1976.

“It was a good day, but the last two days were better … This session was about my life and who I am as a person. It’s not about the show, it’s not about people encouraging me in the stadium. This is about my life, “Jenner said.

Jenner still did not undergo genital surgery, but, in addition to hormone treatment, underwent a process of facial feminization that lasted 10 hours.

The former stepfather of Kim Kardashian confirmed on April 24 in an interview with broadcaster “ABC” that sits woman and that from now on will live as such an emotional process that, according to these new images, has already been finalized.

Bruce Jenner, 65, born in New York, married three times and fathered six children, was considered a national hero by the value that his Olympic triumph had during the Cold War between the US and EU Soviet.

Year end his athletic career, Jenner became a television star because of the reality show “Keep Up with the Kardashians.”