Simone Biles’ husband, Jonathan Owens, was once taken down a peg after enthusiasts of the Olympic gymnast slammed her guy for dressed in her gold medal. 

“Witnessing historical past each time you step at the mat,” Jonathan, 29, captioned a sequence of pictures on Tuesday, July 30, including a flame and middle eye emoji. “Congrats child on changing into probably the most adorned American gymnast in Olympic historical past!!!! Simply wow!!!! 8 of them!!!!! So grateful I used to be there to peer it.”

Lovers have been fast to flood his feedback phase with harsh phrases geared toward the Chicago Bears participant. 

“Give the medal again bby thats now not yours,” one fan wrote. “There’s one thing very unsettling about you dressed in her medal. Turns out off. Give it again to her straight away,” every other commented. “Why he preserving it like he received it,” every other chimed in, whilst but every other follower added, “That’s Simone’s gold medal you’re preserving, now not yours my man.”

Whilst enthusiasts of the G.O.A.T. apparently got here to her protection, Simone, 27, gushed over her husband within the feedback. 

“My complete middle. i really like you,” she wrote with 4 pink middle emoji. “Method the sector you’re right here.”

Simone later had sufficient of observing her husband get dragged on social media for dressed in her medal. After TikTok celebrity Kiera Breaugh shared a video on Wednesday, July 31, tough Jonathan “take her medal off” – which won greater than 450,000 “likes” – the Olympic famous person clapped again.

“Loopy factor is, I put my medal on each unmarried one in every of my members of the family and took photos. So don’t ever make assumptions. Like y’all are so f–king depressing. Depart us on my own,” Simone commented on Thursday, August 1, the similar day she took house the gold medal within the ladies’s person all-around gymnastics pageant.

Jonathan and Simone started courting after assembly on Raya in March 2020 and their courting stepped forward briefly with the assistance of the pandemic shutdown.

“We ended up striking out proper prior to the pandemic. It was once some of the few instances in her existence the place the entirety was once simply close off and she or he couldn’t do anything else,” he instructed Texas Per thirty days in 2021. “So, we used it to get to understand each and every different — actually get to understand each and every different. It created our bond and made it more potent. Now I’m so grateful.”

He popped the query in February 2022, which Simone known as, “the perfect sure.” The satisfied couple tied the knot on the Houston courthouse in April 2023 prior to a surprising vacation spot marriage ceremony in Mexico in a while after. 

Jonathan got here underneath fireplace after a December 2023 interview on “The Pivot” went viral the place he was once heard regarding himself as “the catch” within the courting. 

“It’s actually how she pulled me, guy. That’s the query,” he unabashedly stated. “[I] were at the app for a pair days after which she pops up. I’m like, ‘Lemme see who that is.’ I by no means actually paid consideration to gymnastics, so it piqued my interest [and I was like], ‘I’ll see what’s up.’”

He persevered, “I didn’t know who she was once on the time, however the very first thing that I noticed was once that she simply had a number of [Instagram] fans. … I all the time say that the boys are the catch. She did [pull me], despite the fact that, as a result of I used to be combating it. … On the time, I used to be afraid to dedicate. I used to be like, ‘That is my 3rd yr [in the NFL], I’m making an attempt … it’s more or less early, however, you realize, it occurs while you least be expecting it.”

In spite of the onslaught of backlash, Simone appeared unfazed and defended her guy’s feedback all over an interview on Alex Cooper’s “Name Her Daddy” podcast. 

“I believed the entirety was once OK, after which I’m going on Twitter and everyone’s like, ‘Divorce this guy. He’s imply!’ I’m like, ‘He’s the sweetest. He praises the bottom that I stroll on.’ In reality, I’ve by no means met a person like him,” Simone stated. “He by no means stated I wasn’t a catch. He stated he was once a catch. As a result of he’s!”

In spite of status via her husband, the gold medalist admitted the feedback “harm [her] emotions,” announcing, “One evening I broke down and I’m like, ‘Why are you guys speaking about my husband like this? You don’t know him. You don’t know who he’s and if anyone’s met him, you realize he’s the sweetest man, will do anything else for anyone.’”

“That actually harm that they have been speaking about my husband like that. For me, it’s like, speak about me all you need, however don’t come for my circle of relatives, by no means,” she added.