Simone biles announces divorce after 4 years of relationship with Jonathan Owens. Full details 👉
Simone biles announces divorce after 4 years of relationship with Jonathan Owens. Full details 👉
Simone Biles’ husband, Jonathan Owens, is missing training camp to watch his wife at the Olympics.
Simone Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, is looking to take home some more hardware at her third Summer Olympics in Paris this week — and her husband, NFL player Jonathan Owens, will be in the City of Light to watch the finals on July 30.
Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens have been together for over four years.Carmen Mandato/Getty Images
Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens have been together for over four years.Carmen Mandato/
Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens have been together since March 2020, right before the pandemic.
The athletes first connected on social media, with Biles sliding into Owens’ DMs.
They got married in April 2023 in a small ceremony before saying their vows again in Cabo that May.
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Biles and Owens have had some ups and downs in the public eye. During an episode of a podcast called “The Pivot” in December 2023, Owens was criticized by some after he said he had no idea who Biles was when they originally matched on Raya, a dating app, in 2020. He went to call himself “the catch” in their relationship.
Although Owens caught some flak, Biles supported her husband. She posted photos from their April 2023 wedding on Instagram and commented on Owens’ post that their relationship is “for life.”
Here’s a closer look at their relationship over the past four years, from their first post on Instagram to now.
March 2020: They connect via social media and start hanging out
In March 2020, Biles was prepping for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which were eventually postponed to 2021.
In March 2020, Biles was prepping for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which were eventually postponed to 2021.
According to a Texas Monthly profile in June 2021 of Owens, the two met right before COVID-19 shut down their sports.
“We ended up hanging out right before the pandemic,” Owens said. “It was one of the few times in her life where everything was just shut off and she couldn’t do anything. So we used it to get to know each other — really get to know each other. It created our bond and made it stronger. Now I’m so thankful.”
Biles told The Wall Street Journal in July 2021 that the two met on Instagram, though later Owens claimed the two met on Raya, a dating app.
“He would say I slid into his DMs,” she said. “I saw him and I was like, ‘Oh, he’s pretty cute,’ so I said hi and then I saw that he was in the Houston area, so we started chatting a little bit, and then we went to hang out a week or two later.”
Owens added in the Texas Monthly profile that he’d noted Biles’ 4 million — at the time — Instagram followers.
A few weeks later, according to Biles, her younger sister, Adria, saw they were talking on FaceTime, and stole her sister’s phone to ask if Owens was coming to a family trip to their lake house. He accepted the invite and even brought his bulldog, Zeus.
August 2020: Biles debuts Owens on her Instagram
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Biles posted a sweet photo of the pair for the first time on August 2. She captioned it, “It’s just us,” with a brown heart.
A few weeks later, she joked about her gymnastics prowess with a photo of the two captioned, “The only time I fall is when he’s there to catch me.”
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Owens also began attending Biles family dinners every Sunday around this time.
September 2020: Owens posts about their relationship for the first time
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About a month later, on September 8, Owens posted about Biles on Instagram for the first time — a mirror selfie captioned, “Now you rockin with a real one.”
December 2020: Biles spends Christmas with Owens’ family and watches Owens play
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Owens shared a series of photos with Biles and his
