Yes, Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens are already thinking about children. The 29-year-old Chicago Bears safety and his wife, 27, are "for sure" planning on having children, he told in an interview shared Wednesday, August 7. He did note it would be "in the future," a sentiment Biles shares, as she told , "Obviously we both have goals that we want to achieve before we start a family.
" "Me and Jonathan always talk about kids," the Olympian said. "He would have them, like, yesterday if he could have." Though she wants to wait, the gold medalist did tell Hoda Kotb that she "most definitely" sees herself as a mother.
She has already felt those motherly instincts when taking care of her younger sister, Adria. The pair are only two years apart, but Simone stepped up as a motherly figure to her younger sister when they spent three years in foster care before being adopted by their grandparents, Ronald and Nellie Biles. Owens also spoke with about whether or not they would be encouraging their future children to pursue athletics like they did.
"If that's what they want to do, I'm not going to try to force anything on them," he said, adding, "Obviously they're going to know what their parents did, so that'll be just something cool for them to look at and for us to be able to relive those stories and memories with them." This morning, speaks to all about her four new medals at the Paris Olympics, giving Rebeca Andrade her flowers, why she wouldn’t be at the level she is today .