Jordan Chiles is already looking past gymnastics in planning her next career move.
The gold medal-winning athlete may have been entangled in bronze-medal controversy during the recent Olympic Games, but that didn’t deter her from revealing her thoughts about the future on Saturday.
“The future is such a huge word, but there are so many things that you can do within that future,” she said at the Teen Vogue Summit 2024 in Los Angeles, acknowledging that she’s often asked what’s next after retirement from gymnastics.
“Well, whenever that happens, I’m going to go into real estate,” Chiles said, according to People. “I love building. I love being creative. I love seeing things just be designed in different ways. That’s one thing.”
She also said she “100%” wants to become an actress, and would also love to sing. But she said her basic desire is “to make a brand for myself and make sure everybody understands that Jordan Chiles is Jordan Chiles, not just as an athlete, but also as a human.”
Chiles has spoken openly about her disappointment at losing the Bronze Olympic medal after Romanian gymnasts Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and Ana Barbosu appealed the judges’ decisions on one of Chiles’ individual scores on a technicality and won, putting Barbosu on the podium instead.
At the Teen Vogue Summit, Chiles said coaching gymnastics is not one of the things she wants to do, because she identifies too closely with what the gymnasts are going through.