After completing his "facial feminization surgery," Bruce Jenner did an exclusive interview and photoshoot with Vanity Fair where he revealed his new look and new identity, "Caitlyn."

In VF's teaser article for the upcoming issue, Jenner describes the emotional surgery procedure—including a "panic attack" the day afterwards—and the photo shoot revealing Caitlyn to the world. Here's an excerpt:

Speaking publicly for the first time since completing gender transition, Caitlyn Jenner compares her emotional two-day photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for the July cover of Vanity Fair to winning the gold medal for the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. She tells Pulitzer Prize–winning V.F. contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, “That was a good day, but the last couple of days were better. . . . This shoot was about my life and who I am as a person. It’s not about the fanfare, it’s not about people cheering in the stadium, it’s not about going down the street and everybody giving you ‘that a boy, Bruce,’ pat on the back, O.K. This is about your life.”

Jenner tells Bissinger about how she suffered a panic attack the day after undergoing 10-hour facial-feminization surgery on March 15—a procedure she believed would take 5 hours. (Bissinger reveals that Jenner has not had genital surgery.) She recalls thinking, "What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?" A counselor from the Los Angeles Gender Center came to the house so Jenner could talk to a professional, and assured her that such reactions were often induced by pain medication, and that second-guessing was human and temporary.

The Jenner issue hits the shelves June 9. 

Video via VF.