Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has revealed how she felt after having her first date with husband Jonathan Owens. At the time, the gymnast had only dated one person before meeting the professional football player, so she struggled to describe her feelings when she returned home. But even then, she had an inkling that Owens was going to be the one.
Biles struggles to describe how she felt after their first date
While Biles and Owens technically saw each other during a Texans game in December 2019 after she led the team out of the tunnel (Owens was signed to the practice squad for the Houston Texans at the time), the couple didn’t officially meet until they found each other in March 2020 on a dating app called Raya. After their first date, the gymnast felt something that she found difficult to put into words.
“Gosh… It wouldn’t even be ‘giddy.’ What is the right term?” she described to People. “I could not stand when a girl says, ‘Oh, my god, I knew he was he one because…’ What is that feeling like? What does that even mean?”
“I don’t know the term for it,” she confessed after trying to pinpoint how she felt, “but as soon as I met Jonathan, I remember coming home and telling my friends because they were at my house getting ready with me for that little date.”
“I came back and I was like, ‘Oh, I think I’m going to marry him.’ Why did I say that? I don’t know. I don’t know why I said that.”
Biles laughed as she took a look back at her first date with Owens and what made him such a match for her. “It was just a random weird feeling that I’ve never felt before, and then it just happened. So I just think he was so kind and sweet, he made me laugh.”
Several months later in August 2020, the pair made their romance public on Instagram. Just a year and a half later in February 2022, Biles accepted his proposal and they later went on an adventure-filled honeymoon.
The gymnast, who is still taking a break from the sport (though the 2028 Olympics is in Los Angeles), has been seen supporting her husband in the stands during his games.