Jordan Chiles’s book, I’m That Girl, made her a New York bestseller, but also brought some tough times for her family. People pointed out the inaccuracies the book had, like the fall-out between Simone Biles and Carlotta Ferlito, which in the book was dated back to the 2016 Rio Olympics when in reality, the incident dates back to the 2013 World Championships. Another example is when Chiles claimed that due to misogyny, she was once tested thrice within a month by the USADA, but people took examples of Biles, Suni Lee, and other athletes, citing that Olympic athletes have to go through multiple tests. Well, Jordan has finally opened up about these criticisms. What did the Olympian say?
Aj’A Wilson and Jordan Chiles appeared in a video posted by Bleacher Report on YouTube, where the WNBA player asked the UCLA gymnast about her book. The Olympian talked of a tweet that said that she was misleading the people with her book, and the tweet made her think, “How can I mislead a story that is my own story? How can I mislead myself in a way of being like, OK, this is what I wrote.” The Olympic gold medalist was confused about how her telling about her struggles could be misleading.
The two-time Olympian felt the problem was that some people couldn’t bear the truth. They didn’t want to hear it, she said, “This is, you know, and like you were saying, sometimes people don’t like hearing the truth or hearing what’s right.” Further, she explained what the book was about to make clear her intention of why she wrote it, citing, “And so I just want everybody to understand that this story was something for you to understand how I am sitting here or standing at 23 years old, being this strong, being this independent, being this amazing woman trying to succeed in her life in the trauma and all that stuff was something that I wanted to give out to the world.”
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