Simone Biles And Jonathan Owens are a match made in heaven of world-class athletes.
The Olympic gold medalist and the NFL player, who was then a Houston Texans safety, met in March 2020 on the dating app Raya. “I didn’t know who she was,” Owens said. Texas Monthly in June 2021. “I just hadn’t heard of her before, and when I told her that, that was one of the things she liked.”
Although the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the 2020 Olympics, the break in Biles’ training schedule allowed the pair to grow closer. “It was one of the few times in her life where everything was just shut down and she couldn’t do anything,” Owens explained. “So we used it to get to know each other, really get to know each other. It created our bond and made it stronger. Now I am so grateful.”
The gymnast seems just as fearless when it comes to dating as she does on the mat. “He would say I slid into his DMs,” she told the Wall Street Journal in July 2021. A few weeks later, they started dating and the rest was history. They married in April 2023.
Check out Biles and Owens’ full relationship timeline below: