I'm A Celebrity star Caitlyn Jenner has fallen out with her famous family in recent years but there's one member of the clan she'll always have a soft spot for.
Caitlyn, 70, came out as a transgender woman in 2015 but her transition ruffled feathers with her relatives.
As Bruce Jenner, she'd been married to Kris Jenner since 1991 and taken on her three daughters, Kim, Khloe and Kourtney.
The couple went on to have two kids of their own, Kendall and Kylie Jenner , before splitting in 2013.
Two years after their split, the former athlete went public with her transition – telling all in a TV interview with Diane Swayer.
During the chat, she explained how she'd been living a lie her whole life, saying: "I look at it this way – Bruce always telling a lie.
"He’s lived a lie his whole life about who he is. And I can’t do that any longer.
"My brain is much more female than it is male. It’s hard for people to understand that, but that’s what my soul is.”
She later debuted her post-transition self with much fanfare on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
However, the Call me Caitlyn interview with the publication started a downward spiral in her relationship with her ex-wife and her step-daughters after she criticised Kris publicly.
In the chat, Caitlyn accused Kris of making her feel “weak and inferior” and claimed she knew all about her desire to be a woman.
She even blamed the family matriarch for the breakdown of their marriage, saying the cause was: "Twenty per cent gender and 80 per cent [was] the way I was treated".
The former track star claimed that when she first met Kris, she had gone through an aborted transition and was a "solid B cup" after hormone therapy.
Caitlyn also said Kris was aware of her cross-dressing and had even seen her in female clothing.
However, Kris denied ever knowing about Caitlyn's desire to become a woman, saying: "There wasn't a gender issue, nobody mentioned a gender issue."
In an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, she was even seen yelling down to daughter Kim about her spat with Caitlyn.
She raged: "He can go f*** himself. I honestly wish I never met this man. I mean, just f*** you, Bruce."
Kim had previously been supportive of Caitlyn's transition, declaring: "She's beautiful, and I'm so proud that she can just be her authentic self.
"I guess that's what life is about."
However, after the Vanity Fair interview, she firmly sided with her mum, saying :"All Caitlyn can talk about is that my mum mistreated her and was awful and all these really rude things, when there's no reason to bash my mum."
Youngest Kardashian, Khloe was most outraged and accused Caitlyn of keeping her transition secret from the family – letting them find out through the press instead.
"We kept asking him, 'Bruce, like what's going on? We're hearing all these rumours?' and he kept telling us one thing but really he knew he was transitioning and wouldn't be honest with us," she told The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"So really we felt like the last to know so that was hard for us, especially me."
Khloe flew into a rage during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show, saying of Caitlyn: "I don't give a f**k what you want to do – just stop lying to us about things…
"Just lay it on the table, what are we doing? What's happening? Even then he didn't tell us… we didn't know when he was going to start fully dressing as Caitlyn."
After Caitlyn reacted to Khloe's outrage via text messages, the Kardashian sister told her former step-dad she was wrong to slam Kris and insisted their relationship was over.
She added: "I said, 'You slaughtered my mother and you have the nerve to say, 'What happened to family sticking together?' You jumped that ship as soon as you attacked my mum.'
"… She can tell me to f*** off all she wants. I don't have a relationship with her. I'm done."
Caitlyn's relationship with the Kardashians was all but over and then she seemed to sever it for good with the release of her tell-all book, The Secrets Of My Life, in 2017.
Not only did she drag up her relationship with Kris again, she went one step further by sharing intimate details of their "uncomfortable" sex life.
Another blow to the Kardashians was revealed after the release of the book, when Caitlyn admitted she deliberately removed a section of the tome about her transition from preview copies she sent to the family.
She insisted she felt obligated to censor that part of the book as she feared one of the Kardashians might leak the pages to the press.
In a 2017 episode of the family's TV show, Kim fumed: "I have always had Caitlyn's back. She is a liar. She is not a good person."
As the feud rumbled on, Caitlyn later admitted she hadn't spoken to Khloe in two years and express her devastation over the rift that tore the family apart.
She said: "It's been a little bit tough over the last couple of years on the Kardashian side.
"They don't want me in their lives, they bashed me pretty badly. It's devastating when your kids do that. It really hurt…"
However, there was one member of the Kardashian family Caitlyn did seem to remain close with – and that was Kim's husband Kanye West .
She's previously said of the music superstar: "Kanye is a good friend of mine and he's good to have an intelligent and interesting conversation with."
She's also shared screenshots of friendly texts between the pair despite her relationship with Kanye's wife Kim remaining frosty.
She even showed her support for the rapper on I'm A Celebrity on Sunday by wearing a pair of his Yeezy trainers during the launch episode.
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