The Story Behind Simone Biles’ Goat Necklace
By now, you’ve seen Simone Biles wearing her precious goat necklace during the Olympic games. So, what’s the story behind Simone Biles’ goat necklace? She’s obviously often called “The GOAT,” which stands for the greatest of all time. But, the story goes a bit deeper.
Simone Biles’ Goat Necklace
Simone Biles is the meaning of the word “comeback.” During the 2024 Paris Olympics, she became the most winning American gymnast in the history of the Olympic Games. That’s such a huge deal, and she earned it. I don’t understand the naysayers who want to see Biles fall. I guess when you’re on top, people want to bring you down. But, she’s on top, and she’s staying there. Even though she didn’t win the gold today (Aug. 5), she still has more gold medals than any other gymnast.
When she’s interviewed after her appearances, she’s often wearing a goat necklace. It’s a white gold necklace, and it’s quite stunning. Of course, people who don’t know any better have started to come up with all kinds of crazy, uneducated and inaccurate conspiracy theories about what this necklace stands for and why Biles wears it.
It’s a diamond-covered goat necklace, which was custom made for Biles by Janet Heller, founder and CEO of Janet Heller Fine Jewelry in Calabasas, California.
“She reached out to us about five weeks ago to say that she wanted to do a goat necklace,” Heller told NBC News. According to Heller, Biles didn’t give her too many specific things she was looking for in the necklace, and it took some variations before finally getting the winning necklace. “What she didn’t know we would be doing, which was a huge surprise to her, was that we made it 3D,” Heller added. Also, the necklace has 546 diamonds, so it’s way more valuable than you might have guessed watching it on TV.
Biles knows that some people don’t like her necklace. She’s okay with that. “My GOAT necklace is just kind of an ode, because the people love it and some people hate it,” she said during a recent news conference. She added, “So, it’s like the best of both worlds,” where she knew “people will go crazy over it.”
She added in an interview with BBC that it’s also kind of a tribute to her “haters,” stating, “and the haters hate it so I love that even more and it’s just a special part of me that I have here, as well as in the village I have like a stuffed goat, just to get a reminder: ‘You can go out there, you can do it, you’ve done it before, so let’s go.'” Do you like Biles’ necklace? Contact me with your thoughts.
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