Former Olympian MyKayla Skinner ’s husband, Jonas Harmer, rose to his wife’s defence and praised her as “the strongest person ever” after she attempted to end her public feud with Simone Biles . {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"MyKayla Skinner and Simone Biles of Team USA in 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.
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jpg"} MyKayla Skinner and Simone Biles of Team USA in 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Getty Images Skinner had previously uploaded a video to YouTube criticising Biles and the USA Olympics team who clinched the gold medal in this year’s games, prompting a barrage of hate comments and even death threats from the public. “Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be,” Skinner had said in the since-deleted video.
Biles later clapped back after her team won gold. Posting a photo of the squad, her caption seemed to address Skinner’s comments. “Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” Biles wrote.
On August 7, Skinner shared a video on Instagram admitting to her mistakes. “To be totally clear, I take 100 per cent for poorly articulating the point I was trying to make. The last thing I wanted was to cause harm or offend our US Olympic Team.
I know these women are incredible – the very best of the best. And almost all of them are my former teammates, who I have enjoyed very much cheering on the last few years,” she said in the video. In her apology video, the 27-year-old former Olympic vault silver medallist made it clear that she’d previously individually apologised to the team members, but only received a response from Biles.
“She told me that she was proud of me,” Skinner says in the video. Skinner implied that she was blindsided by Biles’ later Instagram post that once again referred to the comments Skinner made, which went viral. Then Biles shared that she had been seemingly blocked by Skinner.
Throughout the drama though, one man stood by Skinner’s side. Her husband, Jonas Harmer, showed his support by commenting under the video, “Proud of you for apologising when you did, staying quiet when you did, and now standing up for yourself. You’re the strongest person I know!” Here’s everything we know about Jonas Harmer.
Do MyKayla Skinner and Jonas Harmer have any children? Skinner and her husband tied the knot in 2019, a month after getting engaged and two years after they first started dating, per People. The pair met in Utah when they were both in college. On September 21, 2023, exactly six years after the couple first met, they welcomed their first child, daughter Charlotte Jane Harmer.
He’s a sales specialist According to his LinkedIn profile, Harmer graduated from Brigham Young University in 2021. Currently, he’s working as an account executive at Gamify, a software development company. Outside his job, Harmer is a “marketing hobbyist, blockchain enthusiast and a competitive gamer”, per his profile.
He’s a three-time American Ninja Warrior Not unlike his wife, a former gymnast who won a silver medal in the 2020 Olympics, Harmer is also quite agile on his feet. He competed in NBC’s sports entertainment reality show, American Ninja Warrior , three times from season 14 to 16, which is currently ongoing. His wife also made an appearance on the show.
He hosts a true crime podcast Harmer has a podcast, Safely to the Moon, which he co-hosts with a friend and former colleague. The true crime podcast is about his previous experience at a cryptocurrency company, SafeMoon, that went bust after the founders were arrested for defrauding investors out of over US$200 million. On the podcast, Harmer invites several former colleagues who worked at the same company to share stories and personal experiences.
The pair met when they were in college in Utah, and now share a daughter together; he called his wife ‘the strongest person ever’ after she reportedly received death threats for her recent comments Harmer also has a podcast, Safely to the Moon, about his time at a cryptocurrency company, SafeMoon, that defrauded investors out of over US$200 million.
