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Kardashian, 34, spoke out for the first time about her
stepfather in an interview on NBC's "Today" show with Matt Lauer
saying what is most important to her and her family is that
Jenner is happy.
"As long as he happy, and he wants to live his life, however he
wants to live it, that just makes me happy, and I support him
100 percent," Kardashian said.
Jenner, 65, became the most high-profile American to come out as
transgender when he told journalist Diane Sawyer on ABC's
"20/20" news magazine show that he was transitioning to become a
woman.
Jenner, who won a gold medal in the decathalon at the 1976
Olympics in Montreal, told Sawyer that "for all intents and
purposes I am a woman."
About 17 million people watched the show. It was also the top
worldwide trend on Twitter with 8.1 million people seeing one or
more of the 972,000 tweets about it.
"I am really happy for him in living his life the way he wants
to live it and that he has found inner peace and just pure
happiness. That is what life is about," Kardashian added.
She said the family is still adjusting to the news but they are
really close and going through family therapy. They have also
spoken to organizations such as GLAAD about how to be respectful
and supportive for him.
"Bruce wants us to feel as comfortable as possible and to take
everything at our pace and we love him for that," she added.
"He's done a really good job of walking us through it."
Jenner, the patriarch of TV's Kardashian clan, has been married
and divorced three times and is the father of six biological
children and four stepchildren.
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Ted
Botha)
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