{"id":212791,"date":"2019-10-22T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=212791"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:05:50","slug":"simone-biles-foster-care-decorated-gymnast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/simone-biles-foster-care-decorated-gymnast\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles: From foster care to the most decorated gymnast of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month, Simone Biles became the most decorated gymnast<\/a> of all time when she earned five gold world medals at the World Championship on October 13. She took home five of the six golds won in Germany that day for team competition, all-around, vault, floor, and beam. She’s also a former foster child and says her parents were very “brave” to adopt her and her sister.<\/p>\n

In a 2018 Op-Ed<\/a> for CNN, Biles wrote that people often ask her how she went from foster care to Olympic star. She says it took a mix of hard work, talent, and seeing the right opportunities and taking them when she was able. She also noted that without the people who saw her talent and encouraged her, she never would have been a gymnast. Two of those people are her adoptive parents.<\/p>\n

“My mom means the world to me, and obviously I wouldn’t be here without her,” she said in an interview<\/a> with CNN. “[…] They took a big step in their lives with adopting two new little girls into the family. So I think that was very brave of her.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Actress Jameela Jamil: Babies better off aborted than \u2018ruined\u2019 in foster care<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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