Simone Biles is not flipping over a cosmetic procedure she had done earlier this year. The Olympian shared a negative experience she had with Botox after getting the injections done for her 27th birthday in March. “I did not like it,” Simone confessed in a video posted to TikTok Aug.
2 . “I haven’t got it again” As for why the gold medalist wasn’t a fan? She recalled a “funny story” about one of the side effects of the procedure, which consists of injecting a prescription drug called botulinum toxin into facial muscles to temporarily prevent them from moving, according to Mayo Clinic. “I would be standing at practice and then my eyebrow would be slowly going up like this,” she explained while noticeably arching her right eyebrow.
“[My teammate] would be like ‘Simone, your eyebrow’s doing it again!’ I’m like, ‘I feel it.’ I couldn’t get it back down. But it would go back down in like 20 seconds, and it would randomly do that.
” Noting that she has “no idea” why that kept happening, the athlete went on to clarify her current stance on Botox. “Now I can do all the facials,” Simone said. “Not doing that again.
” And the 27-year-old—who just rounded out competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics —had her fans’ full support when it came to her honest take. “You are so real being open about Botox,” one fan commented on the post. “We heart you GOAT!” “Believe in yourself Simone, you are beautiful from inside out,” another wr.