Forever tattooed, forever connected.
Simone Biles got a sentimental new tattoo in honor of her husband Jonathan Owens during her Gold Over America tour.
After her show in Arizona on Wednesday, the Olympic champion scheduled an appointment with Sydney Smith, a fine line tattoo specialist in the area.
During the evening session, the record-breaking gymnast tattooed “Made in Heaven” on the back of her neck.
The 27-year-old also has a small “J” (the initial of her husband's name) engraved on the ring finger of her left hand.
Owens, whom Biles married in April 2023, also has the gymnast's first initial on his ring band.
The 29-year-old Chicago Bears player debuted the tattoo in July 2024, shortly before his wife traveled to Paris to compete in the 2024 Olympics.
While Biles' tattoo is written in a sans serif font, Owens' ink is much larger and written in cursive.
The couple met on the dating app Raya in 2020 and got engaged in February 2022.
Blacksmith he told TMZ It took an hour and a half to complete each tattoo for the gymnast, who was “great” to work with.
However, this wasn't the first tattoo the seven-time gold medalist had dedicated to her husband. Shortly before the couple's wedding, Biles revealed that they had gotten “matching tattoos with the number '444' on them.”
“4best, 4worst, 4always,” she explained in her Instagram story.
While it's unclear where Owens' ink is located, Biles placed the personal ink on the inside of her left elbow.
The athlete got her first tattoo shortly after her Olympic debut in Rio, where she won four gold medals and one bronze.
Once Biles returned to the United States, of course, she got the Olympic rings tattooed on the inside of her right arm.
Since then, she has added several other pieces, including her birth year, 1997, above her right elbow, the word “golden” on the inside of her left wrist, butterflies on her hand and “XO” on her inner lip.
However, one of her most personal tattoos is located on her collarbone and reads: “and still I rise,” a nod to Maya Angelou's famous poem.
Biles got the tattoo in 2021, shortly after having to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics due to mental health issues and twisties, a common term among gymnasts for when one feels disoriented in the air.
“Before I got this tattoo, it was a saying that I loved, obviously, by Maya Angelou,” Biles said. explained in his Netflix documentary. “And I thought, ‘and yet I still get up,’ it’s perfect because I feel like that’s the epitome of my career and the story of my life because I’ve always risen to the occasion.”
“Even after all the traumas and the falls, I have always gotten up,” she continued. “Every comeback I have had, no matter what happens, I always come back and keep trying to do everything with all my strength, with all the difficulties. Even after Tokyo, I am still here. So I keep getting up.”
