Simone Biles
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209 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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But I did a whole entire day with her and that was so cool.
Well, to me, I thought that's, kind of where it ended. And I was like, oh my gosh, how have I reached my greatest achievement in life at 19? I was scared for the rest of my life. Like, how can I beat this? How can I top this? What the heck am I going to do? I won the Olympics at 19. It's gonna be a shithole from here on out.
No, literally, because most people don't get to go to more than one Olympics or do those things. So at one point I was like, I did it! This is my greatest, like, this is the greatest thing that I wanted to achieve in my life. And then I was like,
Yes. And so I was scared, but at that time you couldn't really tell me anything because I was like, oh my gosh, I did it. And I knew as soon as that happens, We've watched previous Olympics, so we know how their lives change after that. So I knew it was going to be different, but I knew that it was going to be different.
Every day at the Olympics, my followers go up 10,000 and then I had a million. And then I was like, what the heck is happening and why are people following me? I was like, At that point, I was like, yes, this is my greatest achievement because I've been vying for this since I was six years old, per se. But then I was like, but y'all haven't watched the come up. So why do you care?
Like, this is my greatest achievement. Cool. So it was kind of weird to me that people were following me because I had won the Olympics. Because to me, that was the biggest thing. But I was like, how's that the biggest thing for you to follow me because I won this? It was kind of weird.
And then I was like, okay, I really need to find out who I am without gymnastics because I didn't think I was going to do it again.
A lot of the time because on a lot of the teams, like a lot of the girls looked up to me. So I felt like I was that strong person that everybody was like, oh my God, Simone's so strong. She has a strong personality. If you had something to describe me as, strong went before that word. So I felt like I could never show a sign of weakness.
But I just always felt like I was the strong one for my friends, the strong ones for my family, the strong ones. So it was just kind of like I got to a point where it was so hard for me to cry or show emotion. But I also think that came from gymnastics. It's like throw all that out the window, work on what you need to work on, and then outside at the gym, whatever happens, happens.
So, yeah, it was... Weird, different, difficult. But at that point, again, I'm only 19 years old.
A lot of the time, if it wasn't my sister, because we're very, very, very close, If it wasn't her silent cries, I didn't like to see anybody, like I didn't want anybody to ever see me cry.
Because I didn't want them to show or see that I was a sign of weakness. So it was a lot of silent nights where I would cry because even after the Olympics, I went home and like we went on tour and stuff, but there would be a lot of times where I felt so alone because like how many kids can relate? 19 years old, you won the Olympics and then you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.
I'm still learning. It's just like, now I'm a celebrity. I don't know what I want to do with my life. I don't know if I can do this again. Everybody's cheering me on. It's just like, it was an overnight sensation, so to speak, even though like people that watch gymnastics watch for the four years prior, watch my whole entire career. But to just be like thrown out there, I was kind of confused.
But then somebody told me it was lonely at the top. And so I would relay that message in my head. And it was like positive sometimes, like, yeah, it's lonely at the top. And then other times it was like, it felt hard and heavy.
Yes, because I'm only 19. So we wanted our lives to be as normal as possible. And so I think that's why I'm so grounded with my family and all because I We never wanted it to take over because we've seen how that can happen. But again, I was just a kid. I was homeschooled. I didn't have much.
The main reason I did that is because A lot of people follow me, a lot of people go on my platforms, and I've always been an open and honest book from the very beginning, and I've always decided I'm not gonna let anything ever change me, because this is who I am, so take it or leave it. But I've always been an open book.
I was talking to my friend the other day and she was like, I met you in three minutes. We went from talking about this to like deep stuff. And it's just like a lot of people when they meet me, they can feel that. But after that, I decided to speak out because I know it could help a lot of people. So if I could shine a light on whatever that is, then I'm going to do that.
But I wanted to be in a good enough place and to have... the proper help lined up before I spoke out because that stuff was so traumatizing. And I truly don't understand how I did what I did under those circumstances and how I put on a face, but you know, at some point as an athlete, you were an athlete. So you understand, it's like, we normalize a lot of stuff, but then we push off emotions.
It's like, We do so much.
And that's all you know. That's all we knew. So we thought it was normal because we're all homeschooled there together. You're all going through the same thing. So if we're talking to each other and if this is happening to you, this is happening to you. Okay, cool. It's normalized.
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