Simone Biles is fed up with fans being "disrespectful" to her husband, NFL player Jonathan Owens, after he was seen supporting her as she won yet another gymnastics title over the weekend.
Biles, 27, won her seventh career Core Hydration Classic all-around title at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., Saturday night, and the Chicago Bears safety, 28, could be seen cheering her on from the stands.
"My whole heart ... the best supporter, I couldn't ask for a better husband," Biles wrote alongside photos of Owen supporting her at the event.
But some fans in the comments still seemed hung up on an interview on "The Pivot" podcast in December in which Owens described himself as the catch in their relationship. On Sunday, Biles expressed her frustration on Instagram.
"I'm going to quickly address this, the joke was never a joke! Y'all are blatantly being disrespectful to my relationship & my husband. So I'm gonna go ahead and say this one time. Respectfully, f*** off," Biles wrote.
"[And] if you keep commenting or tweeting at me I'm just going to block you. Simple as that. And no I don't need to touch grass or whatever tf y'all suggest...." she wrote.
She closed with a message to her more supportive fans.
"Everyone else that supports us, we love y'all so much," Biles wrote.
"Being fake mad about people y'all don't know from a can of paint is weirdo behavior," Owens wrote on his own Instagram Stories.
In December, Owens had admitted that he wasn't aware of just how accomplished and famous a gymnast Biles was when they first started dating.
"I always say that the men are the catch," Owens said, adding that he had to fight against his feeling of being "afraid to commit" when he and Biles began dating.
The backlash from fans was swift, and ultimately brought Biles to tears, she later revealed.
"First of all, that interview had nothing to do with me," Biles explained during an appearance on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
"He never said I wasn't a catch," Biles said. "He said he was a catch because he is. I've never met a man like him. A lot of people that meet him are like, 'oh my gosh. I want a man like that, like Jonathan.'"
She said at first she found the fans' reactions funny, but later "broke down."
"I thought it was hilarious what people were saying divorce him, divorce him. All of this crazy stuff," Biles said.
"Then, like, one night, I broke down, and I'm like, 'Why are you guys talking about my husband like this?'" Biles said. "That really hurt that they were talking about my husband like that. Because for me, it's like talk about me all you want, but don't come for my family."
--with reporting from TMX.
