Brody Jenner Reveals What He Would Have Done Different amidThe HillsFame: 'At the Time, You're Just in It' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Brody Jenner on May 12, 2008.Photo:Polk Imaging/WireImage

Polk Imaging/WireImage

Brody Jenneris showing a whole new side of himself onSpecial Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

Speaking exclusively with PEOPLEabout season 3, Jenner, 41, admits that the Fox competition series is quite different from other reality shows he’s done before likeThe HillsandKeeping Up with the Kardashians.

“This is definitely more real than a lot of the other series I’ve done in the past,” he shares, noting thatThe HillsandKUWTKhad a lot more structure to the production. “I mean there was structure here, but a very different kind of structure. What they’re putting you through mentally and physically, the last thing you are thinking about is being filmed.”

He admits that the entire experience was “kind of a blackout” moment for him as he filmed the intense training courses alongsideKayla Nicole,Cam Newtonand more. “It’s just a different side of me that people have never seen. Putting me through the hardest things I’ve ever had to do mentally and physically, you just sort of see a different side of me that’s a little more real and vulnerable. I’m extremely vulnerable.I share a lot of deep stuffthat I’m dealing with, and there’s some therapy in there."

Brody Jenner on ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’.Pete Dadds / FOX

Pete Dadds / FOX

While Jenner is eager for fans to tune intoSpecial Forces, he still has fond memories from his early days filmingThe Hills, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary of the series finale this year.

Brody Jenner, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.Donato Sardella/WireImage

Donato Sardella/WireImage

“I really value my privacy and I enjoy my privacy, and so you don’t really understand fame until you have it,” he says. “Look, there’s some very incredible things about fame, but there’s also some very claustrophobic things about it. So there was the good and the bad. It changed my life in a lot of good ways and also not so good in some [ways], but still very appreciative of all that. It’s kind of just what shapes you as a human being as you go forward in life.”

Looking back, he says there is one crucial thing he’d tell his younger self as he dealt with fame. “The piece of advice I would give myself back now at this age would be like capitalize on the opportunity,” he reveals. “At the time, you’re just in it, you’re living it, you’re young. You don’t realize what a valuable and incredible opportunity that is."

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Testairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

source: people.com