Overview

• Gaines announced at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit on June 14 that she is 26 weeks pregnant with her first child, a daughter due in September.
• She referenced Biles’s “bully someone your own size” remark to introduce her baby bump, playfully asking the audience how many men have “this.”
• Simone Biles issued an apology for personal and body-shaming comments made during their online dispute and Gaines publicly accepted the apology.
• Gaines and her husband, Louis Barker, who married in 2022, shared the news on stage and through social media posts featuring ultrasounds and celebration photos.
• The former NCAA All-American swimmer linked her personal milestone to her ongoing campaign for maintaining sex-based divisions in women’s sports.