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Bruce Jenner wasn’t kidding when he said it was going to be an “emotional ride” to famed interviewer Diane Sawyer for their 2-hour 20/20 special Bruce Jenner: The Interview that aired last night on ABC. Revelatory and brave, the Olympic gold medalist, reborn a reality TV star through the Keeping Up With the Kardashians empire, revealed and confirmed after months of speculation that he was transgender and for “all intent and purposes. I am woman.”

As the conversation went on, Sawyer was curious to know out of his four famous  Kardashian stepchildren, who was the most supportive of him finally living his truth. Jenner disclosed that “by far, Kimberly has been by far the most accepting and easiest to talk to…” And Kim was inspired to understand his transgender journey because of her husband Kanye West.

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Prior to shining a light on West’s touching tolerance for his transgender father-in-law, Jenner had also revealed that Kim was the first Kardashian (outside of her mom Kris) to be aware of his closeted, more feminine attributes because she had accidentally walked in on him wearing a dress. After the fact, a lot of time went by because she didn’t know how to react or if they were even allowed to “talk about” (as Jenner informed Sawyer). When Jenner began to be more honest in recent years about his journey, Kim listened but still found it hard to understand until she talked about with West.

Jenner explained to Sawyer:

Kim told me story. She goes, ‘You know what really turned me around. On thinking about this?’ I said, “What?” She goes ‘Kanye.’ I went, ‘Oh. Okay.’ There were talking about it and he said to Kim: ‘Look it. I can married to the most beautiful woman in the world and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world. And I have that. But I’m nothing. If I can’t be me. If can’t be true to myself. They don’t mean anything.

And since then. Kimberly has been by far, the most accepting. And the easiest to talk to about it. 

That’s pretty amazing of West. In continuing to explain how his own family is learning to adapt to this transition, Jenner shone a light on a side of the often publicly volatile West that was instead warm and tolerant of those different than him. Major points for North West’s dad.

After the 202/20 special wrapped, many celebs went to Twitter and Instagram to show support for his announcement, hailing him a “hero” and inspiration” to hundreds just like him who are transgender.

Below are tweets from Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres, Sam Smith and of course, his family.

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Kanye West Inspired Kim Kardashian To Accept Bruce Jenner’s Transgender Journey, As Celebs Online Tweeted Jenner Support  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com