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‘You’re so f***ing miserable’: Simone Biles slams TikToker for criticizing her NFL husband Jonathan Owens
Simone Biles has once more come to the defense of her husband, Jonathan Owens, and has come to the defense of critics on social media.
After helping Team USA win its first gymnastics gold within the team final on the Paris Games, Biles allowed her husband, NFL defensive back Owens, to take photos with her medal Tuesday night, sparking outrage amongst observers who declared that only an athlete should wear the medallion.
Owens took to social media to dedicate his wife of two years to her historic victory, further irritating gymnastics fans.
“You will witness history every time you step on the mat,” he wrote. “Congrats, honey, on becoming the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history!!!! Wow!!!! Eight of them!!!!! I’m so grateful I was there to see it.”
One TikTok user, Kiera Breaugh, posted an almost two-minute video expressing her disapproval of Owens wearing Biles’ medal.
“Take her medal away,” she began, questioning Owens’s merits in comparison with Biles’s extraordinary feats.
“Was that you, Mr. Simone Biles, flying through the air yesterday?” her nodding face asked, floating in a photograph of the otherwise completely happy couple. “Was that you who spun like a top thirty times in the air and landed without tripping?”
The woman continued, “No, you were taking notes in the audience and I thought it was cute. I was going to let him off the hook. I thought it was kind of cute for him to take notes in the audience and I was going to go easy on him.”
Breaugh’s statement, which has been viewed 2.7 million times, followed earlier statements by Owens that appeared to pit him and Biles against one another within the fight for public attention — a narrative that has often been pushed by the media but that the couple has rejected.
The woman’s frustration comes months after Owens’ December 2023 comments that he didn’t know Biles was a world-famous athlete before he met her online through the dating app Raya. He said he considered himself a “partner” of their relationship during an interview on the “Pivot” podcast, which outraged many social media users.
Jonathan Owens took copious notes while Simone Biles was practicing gymnastics in Paris. Not wearing a training cap, but still learning. photo:twitter.com/AyS8AhyyCJ
— Bear History (@ChiBearsHistory) July 31, 2024
Breaugh apparently ignored Owens’ unwavering support for Biles through the Paris Games. Owens I even took some day off from the start of coaching camp with the Chicago Bears to Biles’ performances.
Biles, determined to defend her husband, responded on to Breaugh’s TikTok video.
“The crazy thing is I put a medal on every single member of my family and took pictures,” Biles commented. “So don’t ever put it on. Like y’all are so fucking miserable. Leave us alone.”
Instead of backing down, Breaugh took to social media to brag that Biles had criticized him.
Someone else commented on TikTok and Simone replied lol https://t.co/jx0QqGFlJU photo:twitter.com/45hXSDrVSY
— Ichigo Niggasake (@SomaKazima) August 2, 2024
“Simone Biles… Olympic gold medalist… most decorated gymnast of all time… took a moment out of her day (I think she’s at the Olympics) to comment on the situation with her husband wearing her medal,” she said. “Yeah, she told us to shut the hell up and she put the medal on him. So she told him, I can’t really be mad.”
Fans on platform X slammed the young woman, claiming that she was asking for it and should be a sucker for punishment.
“Oh God, what a shame to be tested in front of the whole universe,” one person said. he said.
Others were like, “Girl, you better mind your own business” and “What the hell is wrong with people.”
One user X summarized to up, “These new kids are WEIRD! I can’t think of a better word to describe their need to give unwanted, unnecessary, and uninvited ‘takes’ on people and then take pleasure in being dragged.”
Biles has been coping with a lot of these “unsolicited comments” for some time now, especially when people comment on her hair, style, and marriage.
Biles and Owens began dating in August 2020 after meeting on the dating app Raya. Biles admitted that she initiated the conversation by sliding into Owens’ direct messages.
They publicly announced their engagement the day after Valentine’s Day in 2022, with Biles tweeting, “Can’t wait to spend forever and ever with you, you’re everything I’ve ever dreamed of and more! Let’s get married!”
The couple tied the knot on April 22, 2023, and had an official wedding ceremony a month later in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. They have been one another’s biggest supporters ever since.