Vanity Fair is doing a good job parceling out their Caitlyn Jenner exclusive cover story, and Caitlyn’s big debut really has blown everything else out of the gossip water this week. If some celebrity needs to go to rehab or a high-profile couple needs to announce their split, this might be the week for them to fly under the radar. But if a celebrity was actually trying to rollout another story in a splashy, look-at-me way, well… Caitlyn just stole your thunder. Even though the thunder belongs to Caitlyn’s stepdaughter, Kim Kardashian. Sources tell Radar that Kim asked Caitlyn to hold the VF release so Kim could have a moment with her pregnancy announcement. Too bad.

A source close to the family tells Radar exclusively, “Kris and other family members asked Caitlyn to hold the Vanity Fair cover and her big reveal until after Kim’s pregnancy got the proper publicity, but she refused to do so! Caitlyn said that she was not going to stand to the side anymore and that her days of doing what they wanted her to do are officially over.”

“Kim is a little bummed because she supported this transition so much more than the rest of the family and feels that she was owed the proper respect of holding it off for a couple more days,” the insider tells Radar. “But Caitlyn knew that if she did not do this, it would leak and that is the last thing that she wanted.”

[From Radar]

Even if this is true – that Kim asked Caitlyn to hold the VF release – it really wasn’t Caitlyn’s call at that point. Vanity Fair releases this stuff on a schedule, and all of this was planned out on an editorial level for MONTHS. Granted, Kim also planned her pregnancy rollout for months, so all this proves is that Caitlyn and Kim really weren’t sharing their plans.

What else? Honestly, we’re not even 72 hours past the initial VF cover release and I’m already overwhelmed by all of the information. VF released more excerpts here – Caitlyn talks about how she’s nicer than Bruce, how moved she’s been by reading all of her fan mail after the Diane Sawyer interview, how she felt like doing the Vanity Fair shoot was much better than winning an Olympic gold medal. There’s also this part, on how she decided on her name:

“It’s one of the hardest things in life—choosing your own name,” Jenner said. One way she attempted to come up with ideas was by watching the Miss America pageant. She’d survey some of the contestants to get ideas and see if any of them fit. She also liked the names Heather or Cathy. But Caitlyn also stuck out prominently in her mind. When her assistant, Rhonda, at one point independently suggested Caitlyn, Jenner said, “I love that name, too!” The coincidence helped seal the deal.

With the name itself set, Jenner went back and forth about how it would be spelled, between “k” and “c” as the first letter—no small task in the Jenner/Kardashian family, with its trademark “k” names. Finally, she decided it was best to break tradition, and the media associations that went with it. She settled on “c.”

[From Vanity Fair]

I understand the idea of differentiating herself from the K-Klan, but I think it’s a cheat to still use a K-sound name. I mean, “Heather Jenner” would have been a cleaner break, you know? Caitlyn-with-a-C still sounds like Kaitlyn-with-a-K.

And finally, you can see the promo for Caitlyn’s new E! series here.

Photos courtesy of Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair.