Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, is getting married.
In posts on social media, Biles announced that she’s engaged to her boyfriend of nearly two years, Houston Texans safety Jonathan Owens. He proposed to her on Monday, which happened to be Valentine’s Day.
In a parallel post in Instagram, she showed off her new ring, which is absolutely massive.
How did Biles and Owens meet?
Biles, 24, and Owens, 26, met in a surprisingly normal way: a dating app. In March 2020, the two Houston-based athletes matched on Raya, a membership-only dating and networking app. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Biles took the lead and contacted him first.
“He would say I slid into his DMs,” Biles told Wall Street Journal Magazine last year. “I saw him and I was like, ‘Oh, he’s pretty cute,’ so I said hi…and then I saw that he was in the Houston area, so we started chatting a little bit, and then we went to hang out a week or two later.”
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