Simone Biles
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209 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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My mom saw it and she was like, okay, do you want to do the one with the four events or do you want to do tumbling and then maybe you'll go to cheerleading? And I was like, I want to do the one with the four events.
never for me everybody else always saw it and since I was always the smallest in my class the shortest I thought they would always be like oh my god she's so good she's so cute she has so much talent I just thought it was like what your grandmother does when she comes around every year like oh you look so good like I thought really that's what it was and I'm like you're just saying that because I'm so short so it took a while for me to really like lean into my talent and to
to realize, oh my gosh, I could do something or be someone. Because once I started, I did it for fun. Nobody in my family has ever done gymnastics, so they have no idea where the talent came from. My siblings were really good at track, but that's kind of it.
Short, yes, because you could always grow. So they were like, we're just waiting for her growth spurt, which I'm still waiting. I tell God, finish it when I'm done with gymnastics. So maybe we're not done yet. The doctor probably thinks my growth plates are closed, but that's a different story. I love it. You're like, it's going to happen. But other than that...
They all saw it, they would say, like, they gave me this nickname, Soldier, because my muscles and all of this stuff. And so, like, one time I beat this kid up on the playground because he said, oh, I bet you can't beat me up. And I was always the kid that, if you said I couldn't do something, I'm doing it. And I think I'm still that way, like, I'm doing it.
I don't know. But if I had to pinpoint, my parents were very hard workers. Me and my sister were pretty much always on top of our schoolwork. And we were just kind of self-driven. And I don't know where it came from, but I think it started from my parents just saying how hard they work, everything that they've done for us, for our siblings.
It's kind of something that was a little bit taught in that nature too.
Probably the whole family started making sacrifices when my practices started going late and then dinner time started to change or they would have to leave stuff in the oven or on the stove and they were like, okay, she's really doing this. But none of us knew how far it was going to take us and to end up where we are. We just kind of thought like, oh, she's doing these flips. She likes it.
She enjoys it. As long as she's having a good time, we're going to let her continue because my parents were always the first to say If you want to quit, let us know. We'll pull you out.
None. The first time I danced with a boy was on Dancing with the Stars with Sasha, and it was after the Olympics. I was, like, 19 years old. I remember he, like, got in my face, grabbed me, and I was like, like, freaking out. Simone. No.
Some, but then at that time we had moved like 40 minutes away. So if we ever wanted to have a sleepover, it was more like your mom drops us off, your dad brings her because like the distance. So other than that, we'd have some best friends come sleep over. But then it was kind of like, okay, if you stay around Friday, you're not leaving till Sunday.
So we had sleepovers, but then again, it started turning into, sorry, I have practice on Saturday. So then go to the gym, we'll drop you off. That sort of thing. It's like your life revolved around it. Yeah. Everything revolved around gymnastics.
I think in middle school, that's when the insecurities started and I kind of... became a shell of myself, but I feel like nobody really understood why I was like racing to my locker to get my gym equipment. And then like at the time our housekeeper would take me to practice and all of this stuff. So nothing I did at that point was relatable.
And it was very hard to not make friends, but to just keep them up because I couldn't hang out with them on the weekends. I couldn't go to Friday night live. I couldn't do anything on the weekends. I was going to a gymnastics meet. I was doing this, that, the other. So to me, it was like, let me get my schoolwork done.
I have like three friends, like at the loser table, like, and I'll do my stuff at the gym. And yeah, it was really hard to relate because they're doing who knows what.
At that point, no, because I still love to do it. And I had all my friends at the gym and that's kind of all I needed at that point. But going into high school, I was like mad at my parents. Like, mad as hell, like, you figure it out why I can't do school and gym. Like, you figure it out. Like, some of my friends could do it because their states allowed that.
And that's at the time I started doing national team camps. And we missed so much school. So I didn't have a choice. But, like, California, as long as you did your schoolwork, and I can't speak on the rules of the laws now, but it's just how it was back then. They could miss however, as long as they got their schoolwork done out of it. But Texas law states you can only miss
X amount before they fail you, even if you do your schoolwork. So that just wasn't an option for us. And it's not like we were ever going to move or do anything because like Texas has kind of the best gymnastics and that's what it was. But I wanted to go to the football games. I wanted to go to the school dances. I wanted to, but it was okay that I didn't because I knew I wasn't
confident enough in my body to show my muscles. Cause at that time I wore a lot of hoodies and I didn't want my muscles to show because then at that point I'm stronger than all the boys because they haven't, they haven't bulked up yet. And I'm just like, Hey, nobody really understood. So it was okay.
And everybody had muscles and we all looked the same. I do remember one of my friends snuck me into high school one day and I got to go around with her to each class and I thought that was the best day ever. I was like, I'm in a high school. And her teachers just played along with it. They were like, if the principal catches us, who knows what we'll do.
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