"I'm a miracle child, I'm a rainbow baby" - Jordan Chiles makes her feelings known on wanting to write her memoir 'I'm That Girl'

Jordan Chiles listed sharing her 'rainbow baby' story as one of the reasons behind her decision to publish a memoir. The Olympic medal-winning gymnast will debut with 'I'm That Girl: Living The Power Of My Dreams' in March 2025 and its foreword is written by the most decorated gymnast in history, Simone Biles.

Chiles announced her memoir in November while speaking with USA Today in an interview. On Wednesday, the two-time Olympian claimed she had intended to write her memoir since early childhood as her life was 'crazy' from the beginning.

"This memoir was something that I've always wanted to do ever since I was little I told my parents one day I wanna write a book about my story and I only wanted to do that because life from the very beginning of being a little kid was already crazy," she said. [3:40 onwards]

Chiles, who is named after NBA legend Michael Jordan, is the youngest of her four siblings and said she was a 'rainbow baby'.

"I'm a miracle child, I'm a rainbow baby, there's already a lot of things. I'm named after Michael Jordan so those stories are things that I felt like you know people should actually read coming from the person and I think it's just gonna be very impactful," Jordan Chiles said.

The two-time Olympic medalist added that the book was a tribute to the power of love and perseverance. She said:

"It's about the love and resilience, not only within myself but also to everybody on the outskirts."

Through the memoir, Chiles said she has shared the challenges faced by athletes in the sport in addition to the discrimination she faced as a black athlete during her early career. She also details her journey at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she was stripped of a bronze medal less than a month after winning it in the floor exercise finals.

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Jordan Chiles on bronze medal controversy: "It’s hard to tell yourself everything is going to be fine when we literally didn’t do anything wrong"

Jordan Chiles, The Wrap's 2024 WrapWomen Power Women Summit (Source: Getty)

Jordan Chiles placed third during the floor exercise finals after her coach Cecile Landi appealed for an improvement in her score, which was accepted. However, a few weeks later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Landi had submitted the appeal four seconds late and Chiles was subsequently asked to return her medal.

She later submitted an appeal against the decision in Switzerland’s Supreme Court and has vowed to continue to fight for her medal. However, the 23-year-old admitted it was tough to console herself.

“It’s hard to tell yourself everything is going to be fine when we literally didn’t do anything wrong. Everything was in the time that it needed to be. For them to come back and say it was four seconds too late when we have proof … I can only control what my truth is and I know that we were right,” Jordan Chiles said during an appearance on the Today show.

The Paris Olympics gold medalist has submitted a clip from the Netflix docu-series 'Simone Biles: Rising' as evidence, which is claimed to show Landi submitting the appeal in time.