Jonathan Owens wasn’t fazed by the backlash to him referring to himself as “the catch” in his relationship with wife Simone Biles.
“I have all my social media notifications off, so I didn’t even know for a while,” Owens, 28, exclusively told Us Weekly of the public response while promoting his partnership with GoodSport. “I was actually with my mom and Simone whenever it came out, so, all the comments and everything, I just let them read it. I try to stay off of it, and obviously if you feel like stuff is kind of getting out of hand, that’s when you reach in and say something.”
The NFL athlete added that there’s no winning when it comes to responding to trolls.
“I don’t mean to cuss, but like, damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” he said. “If you say something, they’re going to say something; if you don’t say something, they’re going to say something. So, just live your life. People are going to talk about you anyway, so you might as well do it the way you want to.”
Owens raised eyebrows after revealing during a December 2023 appearance on “The Pivot” podcast that he didn’t know who Biles, 27, was when they met via Raya in 2020. He was then asked whether he considered himself “the catch” in the pair’s marriage, to which he replied, “I always say that the men are the catch.” Owens further shared that he “was afraid to commit” at first, but Biles won him over.