{"id":3909,"date":"2024-08-02T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:16:21","slug":"simone-biles-starved-as-child-by-addict-mom-adopted-by-grandparents-who-calm-her-in-comps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/simone-biles-starved-as-child-by-addict-mom-adopted-by-grandparents-who-calm-her-in-comps\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles starved as child by addict mom, adopted by grandparents who \u2018calm\u2019 her in comps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long before 26-year-old Simone Biles was flipping, launching and spinning, she was living in foster care with her siblings, Adria, Tevin and Ashley.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Simone\u2019s birth mother Shanon was dependent on alcohol and drugs, and unable to care for her four children.<br>\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cIt was hard to give up my kids but I had to do what I had to, I wasn\u2019t able to care for them,\u201d Shanon tells the&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.dailymail.co.uk%5C/news%5C/article-3732340%5C/Simone-Biles-biological-mother-reveals-longing-develop-relationship-Olympic-star-giving-adoption-midst-drug-alcohol-addiction.html%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noreferrer' noopener>Daily Mail, adding the kid\u2019s father \u2013 also an addict \u2013 was absent.\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking with&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/edition.cnn.com%5C/videos%5C/tv%5C/2023%5C/12%5C/14%5C/simone-biles-sts-cnnheroes.cnn%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noreferrer' noopener>CNN, Simone candidly speaks of her experience as a child and the \u201chardships\u201d she experienced with her addict mom.\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen my siblings and I entered foster care, it was because our biological mom was struggling with drug and alcohol abuse. I was three years old,\u201d she tells CNN.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Two decades later, she still has vivid memories of starving.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>Long before 26-year-old Simone Biles was flipping, launching and spinning, she was living in foster care with her siblings, Adria, Tevin and Ashley. Simone\u2019s birth <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/simone-biles-starved-as-child-by-addict-mom-adopted-by-grandparents-who-calm-her-in-comps%5C/%5C%22" title='\"Simone' biles starved as child by addict mom adopted grandparents who her in comps>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></a></p></a></p>