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New dad Brody Jenner says that he wants to do the 'exact opposite' of what Caitlyn Jenner did as a parent

Aug 15, 2023, 03:30 IST
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Brandon Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, and Brody Jenner at the release party for Brandon Jenner's "Burning Ground" in November 2016.Earl Gibson III/Getty Images
  • Brody Jenner said that he wants to be a better parent than Caitlyn Jenner was to him.
  • He and fiancée Tia Blanco recently welcomed their daughter Honey Raye Jenner in July.
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Brody Jenner said that he learned a lot from having Caitlyn Jenner as his parent — and wants to give his child the "opposite" experience.

In a video uploaded to his joint YouTube channel with fiancée Tia Blanco, Brody and Blanco documented the birth of their daughter Honey Raye Jenner from baby shower to delivery. In the vlog, he reflected on the kind of parent that he wants to be to his daughter, who was born on July 29.

"I think that what I'm most excited about is doing things differently than my father did," Brody said in a voice over set to clips of him and Blanco during her pregnancy.

"The Hills" star said that he didn't have the "greatest relationship" with Caitlyn, saying that the Olympian "wasn't really around for me growing up."

"I think that just being, doing the exact opposite, being the absolute best father I can possibly be, and getting ready for the journey," he said of his aspirations as a father.

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Caitlyn has six children: Burt Jenner and Cassandra Marino with ex-wife Chrystie Scott, Brandon Jenner and Brody with ex-wife Linda Thompson, and Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner with ex-wife Kris Jenner.

Caitlyn's older children have previously spoken about their fraught relationship with their parent, with Marino telling Diane Sawyer in a 2015 ABC News interview that she had "disappeared" from their lives. Brody said in a 2013 episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" that Caitlyn was "never around" for him, and that he resented her for it.

Caitlyn told ABC News in the 2015 interview that she had been "really struggling" with her gender identity during her older children's childhood.

"I talked to all the boys about this after the fact that, you know, yeah, I didn't do a good job," she told Sawyer. "And I apologized to my kids for that."

Brody said in the YouTube video that he and Blanco were "absolutely thrilled" to become parents.

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"She's gonna be the best mom, and hopefully I can just be the absolute best father," he said.

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