Shocking 😲: Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens’ announces Divorce after just a year of marriage gives reasons

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens attend a game between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers at Toyota Center on January 29, 2024 in Houston, Texas.

The couple tied the knot on April 22, 2023, at the Harris County Courthouse in Houston. A few weeks later, they hosted a second wedding celebration in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

The Olympic gymnast and the Chicago Bears player officially met for the first time in March 2020, but they coincidentally crossed paths months before that.

In January 2022, Biles recounted the time she was invited to lead the Houston Texans out of the tunnel during a home football game in December 2019. Ironically, Owens could be seen in the background of her photos from that day.

“God works in mysterious ways,” Biles wrote, per a screenshot taken by the New York Post.

Simone Biles’ Cutest Snaps with Fiancé Jonathan Owens
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Despite Biles and Owens’ close encounter during the Texans game in 2019, the two officially met via the dating app Raya in March 2020 — and it was Biles who made the first move.

“He would say I slid into his DMs,” the gymnast told the Wall Street Journal. “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.”

Although both are well-known athletes, Owens wasn’t familiar with Biles at first. “I didn’t know who she was,” he told Texas Monthly in June 2021. “I just hadn’t heard of her, and when I told her that, that’s one of the things she liked.”

March 2020: Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens start dating
Since Biles and Owens met at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were able to spend a lot of time together while they had time off — a perk that the busy athletes don’t typically have with their packed schedules.

“It was one of the few times in [Simone’s] life where everything was just shut off and she couldn’t do anything,” Owens told Today. “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’m so thankful.”

Biles told Access Hollywood that the two would alternate going to each other’s houses and their dogs would play while they would hang out. “We kind of had that time to ourselves, see if we like each other… and it kinda worked,” Biles said. “We kind of were just like magnets.”

During a February 2022 interview with Today, Owens reflected on the exact moment he began to fall for Biles, saying, “[It was] probably about a month in, when we were really kind of hanging out every weekend.”

He added, “We just kind of started hanging out more and more and you start to want to see a person… I started to want to see her more.” Owens didn’t fail to note, “My dog really loved her.”