Former Miss Tennessee Linda Thompson first noticed  Bruce Jenner while watching the 1976 Montreal Olympics with then boyfriend, Elvis Presley. She caught Jenner's eye in the spring of 1979 at a Playboy Mansion celebrity tennis tournament. Linda and Bruce were married in January 1981 on Waikiki Beach in Oahu, Hawaii. But soon after, Jenner confessed to Thompson that she identified as a woman. For the sake of her two young sons Brody and Brandown (above in 1987), she made a promise to herself that she wouldn't reveal the Olympian's gender dysphoria until Jenner did. She kept that secret for almost 30 years. Thompson, now 66, has broken her silence and fills in all the details of Jenner's early transition and her years with Presley in her upcoming book, which will be released August 23.

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