Jordan Chiles published a book, I’m That Girl; a memoir of a gymnast who has faced several adversities in her life, mastered her craft, and become the favorite of many; as a matter of fact, such a fan favorite that the book is now a New York Times Best-Selling memoir; what could go wrong right? But isn’t not having it easy the very theme of Chiles’ book? The memoir did make the gymnast a New York Times best-selling author but also brought in some tough times for her family because the internet is not so forgiving when it comes to factual inaccuracies.

People took to notice the inaccuracies the book had, like the fall-out between Simone Biles and Carlotta Ferlito, which in the book was dated back to the 2016 Rio Olympics when in reality, the incident dates back to the 2013 World Championships. Another example is when Chiles claimed that due to misogynoir, she was once tested thrice within a month by the USADA, but people took examples of Biles, Suni Lee, and other athletes, citing that Olympic athletes have to go through multiple tests. Well, Jordan has finally opened up about these criticisms. What did the Olympian say?

Jordan Chiles appeared in a video posted by Bleacher Report on YouTube, where the WNBA player asked the UCLA gymnast about her book. The Olympian talked of a tweet that said that she was misleading the people with her book, and the tweet made her think, “How can I mislead a story that is my own story? How can I mislead myself in a way of being like, OK, this is what I wrote.”  The gymnast was confused about how her telling about her struggles could be misleading.

The two-time Olympian felt the problem was that some people couldn’t bear the truth. They didn’t want to hear it, she said, “This is, you know, and like you were saying, sometimes people don’t like hearing the truth or hearing what’s right.” Further, she explained what the book was about to make clear her intention of why she wrote it, citing, “And so I just want everybody to understand that this story was something for you to understand how I am sitting here or standing at 23 years old, being this strong, being this independent, being this amazing woman trying to succeed in her life in the trauma and all that stuff was something that I wanted to give out to the world.”

Life has not been easy for the UCLA gymnast; she has been verbally and emotionally abused by her coach and to add to the trauma the infamous Paris incident and the legal battle that follows are also daunting enough. Going through all this and penning it down in the memoir; make the memoir something, “I can look in the self myself in the mirror and be like, OK. I’ve gone through a lot of stuff in my life.” 

The gymnast also did not refrain from giving out a strong message saying that, “no matter what you you go through and what you have to sacrifice, you’re going to be able to come out of that and be stronger than what you thought.” Well, the coach couldn’t hold back Jordan from being an absolute beast at the Olympics; neither did the Paris controversy stop her from having a great debut season with UCLA and now she’s just “happy that now my story is out. And instead of people going back and forth trying to create it, they can just read it and be like, OK, look, I get where she’s at now.”

“Words can’t describe how grateful I am for everyone that came out to my book launch party and celebrate my now NY Times Best Selling memoir…. thank you to everyone for buying and listening to my story. THAT GIRL will forever be THAT BOOK!!” The olympian captioned her Instagram post she made on March 18, 2025; the book means a lot to her but does it really belong to her? Not as in ownership but as in writing? The internet is divided.

Jordan Chiles faces backlash as Ghostwriting claims surface

When you look at the cover page of, “I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams” you will see another name under Jordan’s; Felice Laverne; a name that has started quite a controversy. You see Laverne is one of those ghosts from the ghostwriting world that one can see; she’s a big name and what’s interesting is that on her own website, Jordan Chiles’ book is showcased as one of her ghostwriting projects and this has led to tweets like, “all this drama for a book that was almost certainly ghost written.”

Questions are being raised over the olympian; did she even write the book? If not why claim the sole authorship? Mumma miles answered for her daughter. Replying to the earlier tweet, Gina Chiles first reminded the world that the ghostwriter is credited even when they are not supposed to citing, “Take a look at the cover…under her name…shows you who co-wrote it with her.She did in fact open word documents for her book. I think ghostwriters are not acknowledged as writers or given credit on covers.” She was nice enough to even ask “But aside from that how did you like it?” The reply she got was not so nice and reactions followed.

Gina’s reply sparked quite a lot of debate ranging from questions about authorship to personal attacks over Mumma Chiles as well; criticism was not only limited to the Chiles family but also found its way to Laverne. In the end, Jordan herself had to enter and respond with a “Huh?”, the reaction was as puzzling as it was meant to be, leaving you think that was the olympian genuinely surprised by the backlash or she was just hushing the noises?