A Complete Timeline of Simone Biles and Her Relationship With NFL Star Jonathan Owens

Simone Biles, the greatest and most decorated gymnast of all time, has 32 Olympic and World Championship medals to her name. Moreover, she is also one of the most popular athletes in the world and has become a household name across the globe.

USA Today also honored her as one of the Women of the Year, for her work as a mental health advocate. In 2021, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Biles had chosen to sit out and nurse her mental health before the final events.

On the other hand, 2022 came with a rush of good news for the gymnast, as she got engaged to her boyfriend Jonathan Owens. How long have the two been dating? In that vein, here is a complete graph of Simone Biles’ relationship with Jonathan Owens.

When did Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens meet?

Jonathan Owens, boyfriend and now fiance to Simone Biles is a world-class athlete himself. He plays for the Houston Texans in the National Football League.

Naturally, one wonders where the two met, and how they began talking to (and eventually dating) each other. However, as it turns out, the two never actually ‘met’ at the beginning of their relationship.

As most modern-day relationships go, the two first began talking on popular social networking site Instagram. According to Simone, she saw Jonathan Owens and his profile, found him “pretty cute”, and texted him personally.

Of course, the icing on the cake was the fact that both of them were in the Houston area. Biles was born and raised in Texas, and Owens (Missouri-born) was in Houston for his team.

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Over the course of the worldwide lockdown owing to the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, the two talked online. Eventually, they managed to meet each other and began going on dates.

In fact, the NFL star revealed that before the two began talking, he had no idea who Simone Biles was! Thankfully, it became one of the things Simone liked about Owens.

Dating for two years

It was in August 2020 that the duo became ‘Instagram official’. Simone took to Instagram to post a selfie with Owens, captioning it “it’s just us”. Since then, both their social media profiles have been rife with romantic, warmth-inducing pictures of each other.

At the end of a tough year in 2020, Simone and Owens spent Christmas and the New Year together. “Always good to spend Christmas with the fam,” Owens wrote alongside his New Year’s post with Simone.

The two elite athletes spent their first Valentine’s Day together in 2021, and naturally, both of them were highly expressive in their feelings for the other. The two have never shied away from expressing their love online, profusing telling each other ‘I love you’ almost on every single post.

For Owens’ 26th birthday, Simone couldn’t be there, owing to the fact that she was in Japan. However, this didn’t dampen her zeal in wishing Owens a birthday online, promising to celebrate when the two met.

In 2021, after Simone built and moved into her own mansion in Houston, the two have been spending a lot of time there. A slew of homely selfies on couches, beds, and in courtyards is a testament to that.

Wedding bells are on the horizon

On Valentine’s Day 2022, Jonathan Owens popped the question to Simone Biles, and she felt absolutely ecstatic with happiness. The entire sporting world found out through Simone’s social media that Jonathan had proposed to her, and she said yes.

Simone called it her ‘easiest yes’, and the world, with fans, fellow athletes, and telecasters ecstatic about the news. Over the weeks from the proposal, Biles has peppered information about the wedding, and it seems she has it all planned out.

In an Instagram QnA session with fans, she revealed that her wedding would be a destination wedding. Moreover, it would also be on a beach, which has always been her ideal location for marriage.

Furthermore, in another session, she admitted that flowers at her wedding are non-negotiable for her. In fact, she would even be willing to pay for them all by herself, which goes to show how much she loves flowers.

Soon, the two would get married, and quite possibly, it could be by the end of 2022 itself. Judging by the way the two are always gazing into each other’s eyes in every single picture together, the knot they tie would be quite steadfast.

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