Simone Biles doesn’t have time to go back and forth in the DMs.
The seven-time Olympic gold medalist recalled unfollowing an influencer after sliding into her DMs to ask about the individual’s hairdresser.
In a video posted via TikTok on Tuesday, August 18, Biles, 29, said she had been following the influencer for “a while” before their “weird” interaction.
“The reason why I followed her is because I loved her style, her content,” Biles said. “She was super, super cute, but her hair was always laid to a T. Like, I could not tell if that was her real hair or a weave. And at the time, I was like …I would say, particular about hair.”
She continued, “I didn’t really give a f*** that much, but, like, y’all have been bullying me for so long about what my hair looked like during competitions so I’m like, ‘OK, if my hair looks like that, they’re not gonna say anything.’”
But the influencer’s response rubbed Biles the wrong way.
“She replies, ‘Bless. My manager has it. I’ll have to ask her,’” Biles said, slamming her tablet closed. “What? You don’t know who does your hair when you go to your hair appointments? You don’t have their contact or Instagram? Like, I get gatekeeping, but to a certain extent.”
The gymnast added, “And mind you, we lived in two different states, so I think maybe she thought, like, I was gonna steal her hairstylist or something, but that’s not at all what it was. I travel all the time, so if I’m ever in that area, like, ‘Hey, let me get slayed real quick.’”
Biles concluded by asking her followers for their opinion, adding that the incident is still on her mind.
“But isn’t that weird? Is that weird or that’s just me?” she asked. “Does that happen to y’all? I don’t know. I just. To this day, I still think about it, and it cracks me up, but also, like, what? Yeah. I don’t know.”
While Biles never named the influencer in question, she didn’t exercise similar discretion in July when she was asked at the Faces of Fitness festival in Chicago for some celebrity gossip from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded wedding.
That’s where she revealed that singer Avril Lavigne accidentally stole her sunglasses, according to a video shared via TikTok. Biles said she DM’d the singer, asking, “Yo, can I get those YSLs back?”
Lavigne, 41, had yet to reply at the time of the video.
