Simone Biles smashes records so often that we’re not sure when she gets a break from the mat. So, it should come as no surprise that the 26-year-old gold medal winner is celebrating the holiday season by wearing a collection of festive-themed activewear from her partnership with Athleta (you know, just in case she wants to do any aerials around the Christmas tree).

The Olympian showed off the ensembles in a series of photos on her Instagram page. “Holiday ‘fits coming in strong – and comfy,” Biles wrote in her caption, adding a smiley face emoji with hearts. “There’s no time like the present, so I’m reaching for my favorite Athleta looks for all my festive routines with my favorite people. #PowerofShe #Athletapartner @athleta.”

In the carousel of pics, Biles wears various pieces—including sports bras, sweatpants and tights—in festive colors ranging from a Christmas tree green to a sparkly silver.

The gymnast’s Athleta pieces have clearly been a hit, because everything is currently sold out on the site except for the Athleta Girl x Simone Biles Long Distance Bra ($39; $20) which is still available in the XL/14 and XXL/16 sizes. (We’re keeping our fingers crossed that they restock before the end of the year.)

The highly-decorated gymnast announced her “Because I Can” collection with Athleta back in September. The name was inspired by a quote from Biles in 2021, when a reporter asked her why she had performed such high-difficulty moves at the U.S. Classic that year. In a succinct, cheeky response, Biles said, “Because I can.”

This collection, which is targeted toward young girls, is the latest from Biles’s partnership with Athleta (which began back in 2021). When she first teamed up with the activewear brand, the World Championship winner said, “Using my voice has been very empowering for me and I’m grateful to embark on this new journey with Athleta to inspire young girls and women to do the same.”

Simone Biles made her comeback into international gymnastics on the 2nd of October this year, in Belgium, where she bagged three golds and a bronze as well. This is apparent in the immaculate routines that she performed and yet she had withdrawn from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics because of “the twisties”. Their seventh consecutive gold included Team America’s win and Shilese Jones’ bronze.

Just a few days ago, Simone Biles unveiled her latest holiday collection in partnership with Athleta, showcasing a fusion of comfort and strength that diverged from her previous affiliation with Nike. However, recently the decorated gymnast surprised fans with an unexpected and amusing talent—juggling avocados! And now, she had something more to share.

Light-hearted Moments

Simone Biles treated her followers to a hilarious reel on Instagram that showcased her playful and humorous side. So, basically it was a reshared post of Shelly. The video started with a witty remark: “If someone speaks another language, I’ll speak theirs.” She capped it off with a sassy caption: “When I get told ‘no’.” Simone’s caption read, “bc I’m just a girl,” added an extra touch of humour, highlighting her relatable and witty personality.

Nevertheless, Simone Biles showed exceptional strength of mind when she withdrew from the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games on account of her mental health problems. At the 2023 world championships she returned, it wasn’t only a beautiful comeback but also demonstrated her mind coming back to overcome the internal obstacles she faced and showed that she is one of the best fighters who ever lived. As she said, “Whenever you get in a high-stress situation, you kind of freak out. I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my health and well-being.”

Simone Biles’ home construction saga

Simone Biles recently shared updates about the frustrations she’s facing during the construction of her new home in Texas with her husband Jonathan Owens. In a series of Instagram Stories, she expressed her dismay over renovation setbacks, including issues discovered during the construction process. She said,” “I thought it was going to be a 30 minute thing bc I had no clue what I was walking into.” She also posted about concerns regarding stained floor tiles in what seemed to be a bathroom, expressing,  “I cannot deal anymore.”

Despite these setbacks, Biles previously shared a more optimistic update on November 17th, displaying glimpses of the progress in constructing larger rooms and sliding doors for the house. She captioned it as,”eeeeeeeppppp.” Her emotional reaction to the progress, “We have drywall,”  indicated her excitement and emotional investment in the project.

ANTWERP, BELGIUM — Friday night’s all-around final at the world gymnastics championships at Antwerp’s Sportpaleis ended with a one-woman show: Simone Biles on floor.

Her routine, fittingly set to Israeli pop star Noa Kirel’s Eurovision song “Unicorn,” is arguably the best 90 seconds in women’s gymnastics, more art exhibit than sporting effort. Each time the 26-year-old performs the routine, it gets better, her tumbling passes higher and more powerful yet also more controlled. On Wednesday, it clinched Team USA’s seventh straight world championship title. On Friday, despite a stumble at the beginning of her leap sequence, it sealed Biles’ sixth world all-around gold.

“I was emotional because I won my first world title here and now we’re back,” Biles said after the medal ceremony, where she appeared to wipe away tears. “It means everything to me, the fight and everything that I put in to get back to this place and feel comfortable and confident enough to compete. And you guys are never going to believe me, but I’ve also had something in my eye for like four hours today that I could not get out.”

This ending to Biles’ decade-long world championship story — if it is, in fact, an ending — seems predetermined, as if the scriptwriters who crafted her remarkable career planned all along to call back to its beginning. “Full circle,” Biles said after making the six-woman team in September.

She won her first world all-around title in this arena 10 years ago as a 16-year-old virtually unknown on the international scene. She wore braces and a pink leotard and for the last time in her career, was not the favorite to win. When she did, beating multiple Olympic and world champions, the announcer mispronounced her first name.

Now she is a six-time world all-around champion and the leader of Team USA whose first name (and its pronunciation) has become so widely known it’s unnecessary to even mention her last.

Biles, however, insists she was not in the writers’ room when they wrote this part of her story. Instead, she says she’s just going with the flow, blowing wherever the wind — and her coaches, Cecile and Laurent Landi — take her next. “I honestly don’t think I made a conscious decision,” Biles said last month about her return to international competition. “I really don’t think it was set in stone how far I was going to go.”

Last year, Biles walked back into World Champions Centre, the Houston gym her parents own, without a plan. She’d taken more than a year away from gymnastics after withdrawing from all but one event at the Tokyo Olympics because of a dangerous loss of aerial awareness gymnasts refer to as the “twisties,” and wasn’t sure if she would ever return to competition. She didn’t know if she would regain her ability to twist or land the elite skills that kept her at the top for so long.

She’d been working with a therapist and wanted to exercise, wanted to feel the feeling of doing elite gymnastics, wanted to know if she could still do it. Not necessarily because she wanted to compete again, but because she wanted to know that she could.

Then, over margaritas at a Mexican restaurant with Cecile in the spring, Biles tossed out the idea of training in earnest. “She said, ‘I want to give myself a chance,'” Cecile said. “That’s when we knew we had to make a plan without telling her we had a plan. Because we knew the plan would freak her out.”

Could it be that the world’s most decorated gymnast and the most famous female popstar will both be at Lambeau Field this Sunday?

There’s still no official confirmation on whether Taylor Swift will be in attendance at this weekend’s Packers-Chiefs game, but Simone Biles said she will be.

An image of Swift and Biles sharing a suite, cheering on their respective teams, just might break the internet. After all, they’re two of the country’s most powerful and accomplished women in their fields.

It’s unlikely we’ll spot Swift wearing a cheesehead or sporting the classic Packers green since she’s dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Biles, on the other hand, is a Packer through and through now that her husband, Jonathan Owens, is a Packers safety.

Putting the opposing team rivalry aside, could this be the start of a beautiful friendship between Swift and Biles?

It’s not clear whether the two have met in-person, but they definitely know of each other (how could they not?) and have conversed over social media, sharing mutual admiration and praise.

Swift narrated Biles’ introduction before bronze-winning beam routine at Tokyo Olympics

The world anticipated Biles to not only return to the Olympic stage in Tokyo in 2021 but to dominate the competition, since she won gold in the all-around five years’ prior and showed no signs of slowing down. (The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.)

But she withdrew from all-around event as well as the team final, citing her mental health. Biles ended up competing on the beam, winning bronze.

Gold or bronze no matter, one superstar was rooting for her and singing her praises. Ahead of her routine, Biles’ video introduction on NBC was narrated by Swift who called Biles a hero.

“Throughout the last week, her voice has been as significant as her talents,” Swift said. “Her honesty as beautiful as the perfection that had long been her signature.”

Biles said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the video made her cry, gushing that she loves Swift.

Swift responded that she cried watching Biles perform and thanked her for her resilience: “I cried watching YOU. I feel so lucky to have gotten to watch you all these years, but this week was a lesson in emotional intelligence and resilience. We all learned from you. Thank you.”

Biles teases possible Swift meet-up at Lambeau

Back in October on the “Today” show, Biles said that, since her season was over, she’s excited to spend the holidays in Green Bay supporting her husband.

“Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb asked whether Biles would be at the Dec. 3 game between the Packers and Chiefs, saying she’d love a Swift-Biles photo op.

Simone Biles is back in the gym!

The gymnastics champion, 26, posted a selfie of her in the middle of a training session on Tuesday, just over a week after her winning turn at the World Gymnastics Championships in Belgium earlier this month.

In the Instagram Stories snap, Biles pouted at the camera as she posed inside a gym. She wore a black and white leotard and a couple of sweatbands on each wrist.

“Back at it,” Biles wrote on the selfie.

Her latest snap comes days after she shared a carousel of photos showing what she got up to in Belgium while competing overseas with Team USA.

In the post — which was captioned, “album: Belgium 💌” — one photo showed Biles posing with teammate Joscelyn Roberson as the pair stood in front of the Brabo fountain in Antwerp.

Biles and Roberson were seen in another snap alongside teammates Leanne Wong, Kaliya Lincoln and Shilese Jones. The group smiled as they posed together with their arms around each other.

Other photos in the carousel included a fresh-faced selfie of Biles as she sat on a bed in a hotel room. Another photo showed the champion flashing a big grin as she stood by a wall wearing her gymnastics outfit.

Additional photos from the trip included one of Biles holding a glass of a fruity beverage and another of a chalk bowl with notes with words of affirmation stuck on it that read, “You’re awesome,” as well as, “And you’re doing great.”

Biles became the most decorated gymnast of all time this month after winning 34 medals across world championships and Olympics — including her sixth all-round world championship gold in Belgium.

On Friday, the champion shared her reaction to having a fifth gymnastics skill being named after her following her record-breaking title.

“World championships!!!!! Whew Antwerp will always hold a special place in my heart,” Biles wrote on Instagram. “The first time I got a skill named after me was in this arena & 10 years later I got my 5th skill named…”

She continued, “I’m speechless. I’m honored. I’m excited and I’m blessed! Doing it for the little girl who fell in love with the sport!!!!!”

Simone Biles made a surprising admission to a fan on social media after she became the most decorated gymnast of all time.

On Friday, the superstar gymnast, 26, won her sixth all-around world championship gold, and grabbed the record for most international gymnastics medals in the history of the sport. Then again on Sunday she claimed three more awards as the 2023 world championships wrapped up. She now has 37 medals across the world championships and Olympics.

On Sunday, one of Biles’ fans posted a thought that inspired the gymnast to open up to her fans. “Remember like five months ago we didn’t think Simone would ever compete again,” a user named Grace wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Biles saw the post, shared it, and added a handful of teary-eyed emojis. She wrote, “real talk I didn’t think so either,” in her post on Sunday morning.

Biles returned to gymnastics earlier this year following a two-year break, during which she tied the knot with her husband, NFL player Jonathan Owens.

The couple wed in April in a courthouse ceremony before celebrating with a second wedding ceremony in Cabo San Lucas where they were joined by 140 of their nearest and dearest.

In August, Biles told PEOPLE that she was nervous about getting back into competing, despite having seven Olympic medals under her belt. “I feel like in the very beginning I was very nervous, obviously to step back out there because a lot of athletes when they take a couple years off, you have a little bit of doubt if you’re going to even be the same athlete you were, how strong you were going to be,” she said.

“So classic, I kind of tiptoed my way in there, just tried to get the meet done and over with, kind of make sure I still had that confidence and that belief in myself.”

Owen, 28, celebrated his wife’s historic accomplishment in a post on social media over the weekend. “You deserve it, just getting rewarded for all your dedication and hard work,” Owens wrote on X. “Blessed to be able to witness the greatness first hand. I love you so much, I’m so happy for you baby.”

During the medal ceremony, in which Rebeca Andrade took silver and the United States’ Shilese Jones took bronze, Biles dabbed back tears.

“I was emotional because it was my first worlds here, 10 years ago, and then now my sixth one, so it’s crazy,” she said in an interview following the competition on the Peacock broadcast. “But I swear, I do have something in my eye that’s been bothering me for like four hours and I cannot get it out.”

As December 2023 begins, Simone Biles is all geared up for the holiday season. Her festive spirit has been evident ever since she and her husband, Jonathan Owens, had their fall photo shoot in Green Bay. But back home in Houston, things were not merry and bright.

Simone Biles drops a pre-holiday surprise

In the latest Instagram update by Olympian Simone Biles, she shared a captivating pre-holiday surprise with her 7.1 million followers. She posted a 5-image carousel post dressed in an Athleta collaboration, a brand with whom she has partnered since 2021. In the images, Biles exuded confidence with her makeup and hair on point in a soft-neutral glam, complemented by delicate gold jewelry.

The collection featured comfortable sportswear in rich fall shades of red, black, metallic gray, bottle green, and brown, accentuating Biles’s stunning personal style. This holiday post by Biles came as a happy surprise, as just days ago the gymnastics queen faced many hurdles with her casa construction in Houston.

Chaos in casa paradise

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens have been building their dream home in Houston ever since the lovebirds were engaged. Fans of the couple have also eagerly joined in on the journey of “Home Build,” right from the lot clearing day, foundation pouring, and construction of the framework to the dry walls being installed. But in the latest update by the gymnastics GOAT during a “trim walk,” she was left in distress. She revealed that what was anticipated to be a brief “30-minute thing” turned into an extensive 6-hour stay on the property.

Although the specific issue was not disclosed, it became apparent that challenges had arisen concerning the walls and ceiling during the construction. The situation left her confused and anxious, and she stated, “Called my dad for backup yesterday bc I panicked! but I’ve made so much progress & I’m so proud of myself,” she wrote. 

Despite all the latest chaos, Biles still managed to not let the turn of events get her holiday spirits down, and the collaboration with Athleta came as a happy surprise for fans as well.