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’s birth mother Shanon was dependent on alcohol and drugs, and unable to care for her four children.
“It was hard to give up my kids but I had to do what I had to, I wasn’t able to care for them,” Shanon tells the Daily Mail, adding the kid’s father – also an addict – was absent.
Speaking with CNN, Simone candidly speaks of her experience as a child and the “hardships” she experienced with her addict mom.
“When 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,” she tells CNN.
Two decades later, she still has vivid memories of starving.
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