Brody Jenner’s Parenting Philosophy: The “Exact Opposite” of Caitlyn Jenner’s Example

Brody Jenner, new dad to weeks-old daughter Honey Raye Jenner, is constantly asking himself WWCJD?—”what would Caitlyn Jenner do?”—and then doing the exact opposite of that, when it comes to parenting decisions.

Brody, 39, welcomed the baby girl with fiancée Tia Blanco on July 29. In a YouTube video posted Friday, he shared intimate home videos of the couple’s baby shower (and his surprise proposal), as well as the home birth. If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “hey, self, wouldn’t it be neat to see Brody Jenner blow up a tub that will eventually be filled with birthing fluid?” you are absolutely in luck.

In the video, Brody and Tia share some couch time after their shower, where Brody says what he’s most looking forward to in his impending Dad Life.

“I think that what I’m most excited about is doing things differently than my father did. Growing up I didn’t have the greatest relationship with then-Bruce,” he said. “[Caitlyn] wasn’t really around for me growing up. So I think that just doing the exact opposite, being the absolute best father I could possibly be and getting ready for the journey and just so very excited.”

Brody and Caitlyn have long had a strained relationship. For example, when Brody married Kaitlynn Carter in 2018 (they separated in 2019), Caitlyn did not attend the wedding.

“Honestly, it really did hurt and I would have loved to have had her there,” Brody said of his parent’s absence in a 2019 episode of The Hills: New Beginnings. “But she had better things to do. Apparently.”

Caitlyn has also said she was “not a good parent” in the past, telling Rob Lowe on his podcast in 2020, “I had four kids. I was too busy struggling with my own issues and my own self. I very much regret that, that I wasn’t there more for my young kids.”

Vanity Fair reached out to Caitlyn Jenner for comment.