Biles first hinted at her new breasts in an October 16 Instagram story as she showed off her gymnastic skills.
“First flip – in a year – at the new house – with new [cherry emojis],” she wrote, alluding to her operation.
“Okay, obviously you can notice the breasts,” she told People. “But other than that, it’s just feeling good about yourself and loving yourself, and I’ve always been very vocal about that.”
“And not that I didn’t like the way I looked or the way I felt,” she continued. “It’s just something that I notice obviously a little bit more because I live in this body, I’m just so used to it.”
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According to Biles, her transparency is a way to show girls “that they have the right to their own choice.”
“I feel like nowadays with social media, you see everyone and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, how does she look so good?'” she continued. “Social media is not real.”
As for the other two procedures she’s had, Biles revealed she had work done on her ear lobe after an earring was ripped out when she was younger, as well as a lower blepharoplasty to get rid of her “Biles eye bags.”
“We’ve just always had them, hereditary, and so that was just a big flaw,” she told People. “It’s something that I wanted to fix.”
“As long as you love yourself,” she added, “that’s really all that matters.”