Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history, and it turns out that the sport sort of runs in the family. Her siblings, of which there are five total, include another gymnast who also appeared in Claim to Fame season 1.
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Biles and her siblings stayed in foster care until she was five years old—her biological mother struggled with alcoholism for years and she never met her biological father. Eventually, the children went to live with their biological grandparents, Ron and Nellie. In 2003, Biles and her sister were legally adopted. “I was very, very blessed and fortunate,” Simone told USA Today, reflecting on that moment. “I felt love, care. I was healthy. I was safe.”
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“There’s nothing, nothing worse, I feel, than having a child going from one place to the next. They need to have that sense of belonging,” Nellie added in the same interview. “I really think it’s important that that’s the first thing that should be done with any child that is displaced, is to find a permanent home.”
Ronald Jr. is Simone’s oldest brother and the biological son of Ron Sr. and Nellie. He married his wife, Samantha, in 2020 and they share one child—a daughter—who they welcomed after years of pregnancy loss, infertility, and IVF attempts. Ronni Louise Biles was born on November 25, 2022.
Adam, the second biological son of Rod and Nellie, was the manager of Simone’s training facility. According to his LinkedIn profile, he works as an implementation consultant and lives in Tempe, Arizona.
Also raised by Nellie and Rod, Adria Biles followed in her big sister’s footsteps with gymnastics and she was an elite competitor for around a decade before calling it quits in 2016. Adria entered the inaugural season of Claim to Fame under the pseudonym, Louise, but she was eliminated in week 8.
“My sister has always been fearless,” Adria wrote in an opinion piece for ESPN in 2016 about Simone. “When we were little kids, we’d stand on a railing on the second floor of our house, then jump off onto the couch down below on the first floor. She’d go first, and I’d follow. We were both gymnasts, so we were always trying things around the house. Nothing scared her.”
Simone’s older brother, Tevin Biles-Thomas, was adopted by their great-aunt and lives in Cleveland. He enlisted in the Army in 2014 and served as a cannon crewmember with the 3rd Infantry Division, per People. As part of a rotational deployment, Tevin was sent to Korea in 2018.
In 2019, he was charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and perjury in connection with a New Year’s Eve shooting that left three men dead at an Airbnb rental, per the Washington Post. He was later acquitted of all charges.
“This was a horrible tragedy, three families lost three family members and you know, absolutely horrific. So, we understand emotions were running high,” Biles-Thomas attorney, Joe Patituce, said, per CNN.”But today, Tevin Biles was vindicated, what he’s waited to get for the last two and half years.”
Not much is known about Ashley Thomas-Biles, including what her relationship is like with Simone. She’s had some legal trouble in the past, as reported by The Sun, and served time at the Jackson Pike Jail in Columbus, Ohio. She was charged with two counts of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to yield or stop at a sign, and probation violation on July 5, 2021, according to online jail records.
She was first charged in 2014 with drug trafficking and possession after a traffic stop for unsafe driving. She pleaded guilty and served 90 days behind bars. Ashley was arrested again on February 25, 2021, for breaking probation.
