Fans have been wondering where Shanon Biles, the biological mother of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, is. Over the past decade, Simone’s biological mother has been the subject of much scrutiny, given Simone’s success in sports during that time. However, when Shanon has been mentioned in various documentaries, such as Netflix’s Simone Biles Rising, they don’t go into much detail about her, leaving viewers wondering what happened to her. Here’s everything we know about Shanon Biles and where she is now.
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The latest information about Shanon Biles is that she still lives in Columbus, Ohio and is in a friendly, but deliberately reserved, relationship with Simone Biles.
This is based on a brief statement she made to The Daily Mail in 2021, in which she said Simone would “be fine” following her struggles with “twisties” during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. At the time, she made the statement from the doorstep of her red-brick row home in Columbus, Ohio. The report says that Shanon is “sober and healthy.”
At age 3, Simone Biles and her three siblings entered foster care due to her mother's struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. Nellie Biles, Simone's adoptive mother, recounts in Simone Biles Rising that Simone and her siblings spent six to nine months in foster care. In the documentary, Simone adds that during this tumultuous time, "there were times when you didn't know what was going to happen… you didn't know if there was going to be food on the table, you didn't know if mom was going to come back."
