Simone Biles explained that her decision to get a breast augmentation was to love herself.
The 11-time Olympian spoke about her plastic surgeries, telling People that it is important for her to be transparent so that others, especially young girls, can relate to her.
“Okay, obviously you can notice the breasts,” Biles, 28, said, stressing that it wasn’t because she “didn’t like” the way she looked before getting them.
“But other than that, it’s just about feeling good about yourself and loving yourself, and I’ve always been very vocal about that.
“And not that I didn’t like how I looked or how I felt. It’s something I obviously notice a little more because I live in this body, I’m just used to it.”
It comes after Biles’ revelation last month TikTok that she’s had three plastic surgeries so far, adding, “two of them, you’d never know.”
She also hinted at breast augmentation last month, adding a cherry emoji over a trampoline clip on social media.
Biles said she underwent a lower blepharoplasty, which reduces tightness from the lower lids and removes excess skin from the upper lids. Cleveland Clinicdue to hereditary eye bags.
She had a separate plastic surgery on her ear to fix her earlobe after one of her earrings ‘torn off’ when she was a child.
Biles hasn’t shared exactly when she got her plastic surgery.
“Seeing me win medals at the Olympics, that’s not comparable,” Biles said. “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 added, referring to the TikTok video.
“I got lower mucosa because me and my family have, I call them ‘Biles eye bags,'” she explains. “We just always had them, inherited, and that was just a big flaw. Every time I went on a shoot, they were like, ‘Oh, can we put some stripes on her?'”
“And I said, ‘Oh, baby, I had 12 hours last night, these won’t go away. Those are just hereditary,” she shares, adding, “so it’s something I wanted to fix.”
Biles, who emphasized that “social media is not real,” sent a message to the younger generation.
“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,” she said. “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?'”
“Social media isn’t real, so I try to be as transparent as possible. But that’s also why I told them that on my 27th birthday I got Botox — and for me, it didn’t go well. I didn’t like it because I had a floating eyebrow and everyone was asking what that was.
“So I tried to share it [in August 2024]. And it’s like, you don’t have to do these things to get in line to show anything. As long as you love yourself, that’s really all that matters.”
