Simone Biles
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209 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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For me, it means the world because being adopted since I was six years old to now, it's been a long road and journey like career wise and just like who Simone is instead of Simone Biles. So it's been a long journey, but their support means the world to me. They've never really missed a competition, anything besides 2020 Olympics, 2021, whatever we want to call it.
That's the only thing they missed because they weren't allowed to go because of COVID. But other than that, they've supported everything that I've ever wanted to do, all of that stuff since I was a young girl.
I was only three years old, so I learned that a little bit whenever I was older, but drug and alcohol abuse And so I just don't think that she was around too much and people, you know, would call CPS or see us out and about. So that's kind of what happened. That's when foster care came and got us and placed us into a foster home.
And so the only thing that I remember was just being anxious when we would go to sleep because my brother was in the room next door. And I think... We were just always used to sleeping together or close or whatever because he's not that much older. And mind you, we were three. And so I just had anxiety problems. So we were in a girls' room. They had girls' rooms and boys' rooms.
And from my knowledge that sometimes during the night or during the day, they would take kids out and replace them into a different home. And that's usually how siblings were separated. So I was just so terrified that if I woke up, my brother wouldn't be there. Even though I was with my sister, I was like, oh, we all have to stay together, kind of that thing. even from a young age.
So I'd always sneak in and go sleep with him because I'm like, oh, this is my brother. You know, because I didn't understand the separation whenever at nighttime. Fast forward a couple years later, I was at gym and I knew I was adopted. From the moment we were adopted, my family told us, you guys are adopted. And I was like, cool, okay.
Like, I don't know what that means. And then they had asked us if we wanted to call them mom and dad.
from my knowledge I was like perfect like why wouldn't I and so it was just super strange to me because I remember this day at gym we were talking about our families and they had said something and I was like oh well I'm adopted and it's felt like everything in the room in the gym stopped and they were like what you're adopted because that was not to their knowledge and I was like
Why is everyone freaking out? And so I was like, well, you know, my parents, those are my grandparents. My uncles, that I call my brother now, those were my uncles. And so I just remember we all sat on the floor. Practice stopped because everybody needed to know the story. Like, the coaches were intrigued, everybody. They were like, you're adopted?
And I was just kind of like, well, yeah, aren't you? Where'd you come from? I was like so confused.
When they say the stork brings the babies, I'm like, how did you get here? I'm like, you weren't picked.
So like that was shocking to me.
Kind of funny because, no, because I just, I'm not sure the relationship, maybe because we didn't ask either, but we knew who it was as we got older, Shannon, and that's kind of what we just addressed her as. But I knew once I got older that that's my dad's daughter. And then that's also crazy explaining to people because I'm like, my biological mom is also my dad's daughter and I call him dad.
So it's just like, everybody's, Hella confused.
Everything, I have no idea where I would be without being adopted. Unfortunately, I might end up the same statistic that other foster kids unfortunately end up. And you know, at 18 years old, you get kicked out of a foster home. So then you're homeless. If you don't get into college and stuff, which most people don't graduate high school, you're on the street.
So I fear for what my life would have looked like.
We got into gymnastics, I say we as me and my sister, from a daycare field trip. Again, I believe everything happens for a reason. And this day, we're here in Texas, if nobody knows. We're here in Texas. We were supposed to go on a field trip to the oil ranch. How country, how Texas is that? And then we wind up at the gym. And it's because it was storming that day. So they're like,
That's an outside activity. Where are we going to take the kids? And so I feel like God was like, take the kids to the gym and see what happens. And so we end up at the gym and I see these girls. And mind you, I've never seen gymnastics in my life. They're flipping around all of the things. And me, six years old, I'm like, I could do that. Like not knowing, I just like feel like I could do that.
And I'm watching them, super intrigued. Somebody does something, I do something. And then the coaches look over and they're like, can you do that again? Like, What did you just do? Have you ever been to gymnastics? It's like, no, this is my first time. And I did it again. And they're looking at my like my body build.
And if I show you pictures whenever I was younger, like I was built like I was ripped for no reason. Just that's just how I was built. And so they were like, you've never done a sport. You your body stature is like it's made for gymnastics. And they're like, that's not normal. And so they sent a letter home and I gave it to my parents.
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