Simone Biles always planned to speak publicly about her breast augmentation.
Biles, 28, got candid about why she decided to go under the knife in a new interview People published on Thursday 13 November.
The athlete made it clear that she wasn’t unhappy with her appearance before having the surgery, but she wanted to feel even more confident. “It’s something I obviously notice a little more because I live in this body, I’m just used to it,” she explained.
When it came time to share the news with her followers, Biles shared that she’s “always tried to be open and honest and relatable.”
“Seeing me win medals at the Olympics, that’s not the same,” he quipped. “But what is relevant is how we feel about ourselves, what we talk about, what we go through and how we share openly, honestly. And that’s why I decided to share it,” she explained.
Biles added that social media is “not real,” so she always tries to “be as transparent as possible.”
“I also think it shows young girls that they have a right to their own choices, whatever they are, and there’s no shame in that,” Biles noted. “I feel like in this day and age with social media, you look at everybody and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, how is she so good?'”
As for other work she’s had done, Biles shared that when she turned 27, she experimented with Botox, but it “didn’t go well.”
“I didn’t like it because I had a floating eyebrow and everyone was asking what that was,” Biles told the publication.
She also had lower eyelid surgery to remove extra skin from her eyelids. “Me and my family have, I call them ‘Biles eye bags,'” she joked. “We’ve always had them, inherited, and this was just a big flaw.” Biles recalled being on photo shoots and the team wanted to put “strips” on her to make her look less tired.
“And I said, ‘Oh, baby, I had 12 hours last night, these won’t go away. Those are just hereditary,” he recalled telling the group. “Well, it’s something I wanted to fix.”
She also had plastic surgery on her ear after an earring ripped during her childhood.
“Okay, obviously you can notice the breasts,” he says. “But other than that, it’s just about feeling good about yourself and loving yourself, and I’ve always been very vocal about that.”
Biles added, “As long as you love yourself, that’s really all that matters.”
The Olympian previously opened up about the work she did earlier this month while off-duty via TikTok. After sharing that she has had three surgeries, she urged her fans to guess which ones in the comments section.
After her followers guessed what surgeries she’d had, Biles replied: “
