article_snippet.sent: Speaking to GMA in a tearful interview, Chrystie Crownover, the daughter of a Mormon minister, told how The Olympic champion first opened up to Bruce when Chrystie Crownover, the daughter of a Mormon minister married in 1972. '
article_snippet.sent: The decathlete, who has been married three times and who has six biological children, married Chrystie straight out of school and told Diane Sawyer Diane Sawyer was the first person Diane Sawyer trusted about Diane Sawyer gender issues and Diane Sawyer cross-dressing.
article_snippet.sent: First love: Bruce married Bruce college sweetheart Chrystie Crownover in 1972.
article_snippet.sent: Proud wife Chrystie, who'd supported Bruce's amateur athletic career through two summer Olympics, was there to see Crownover husband break records and win her husband gold medal in Montreal in 1976 - four years after her husband told Crownover about her husband gender identity issues .
article_snippet.sent: Bruce and Chrystie met at Graceland University in Iowa in 1968, where Bruce was studying on a football scholarship.
article_snippet.sent: Bruce and the Mormon minister's daughter fell in love and married in 1972, the same year Bruce represented the US as a decathlete at the Munich Olympics.
article_snippet.sent: The star athlete and Chrystie had a son and daughter together but a son and daughter marriage was already in trouble by the time Bruce met Linda Thompson in 1980.
article_snippet.sent: A former Miss Tennessee and ex-girlfriend of Elvis Presley, Linda tied the knot with Bruce in January 1981 as soon as Bruce divorce from Chrystie was finalized.
highlights_snippet.sent: Chrystie Crownover told GMA that Bruce revealed Bruce 'true self' the year they were married in 1972 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The Olympic champion and Chrystie have two children together and are grandparents .