Shawn Johnson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and her parents started her in gymnastics when she was three years old. She began training with Liang Chow at the age of six and stayed with him for nearly two decades. Johnson went to Valley High School and led a more balanced life than most outstanding female gymnasts.
Johnson and her mother relocated to Los Angeles, California, after graduating from public school in 2009. She finished high school with the help of a private tutor and briefly attended Vanderbilt University before dropping out in 2013.
Johnson is married to professional football player Andrew East, and the couple lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She confessed in 2015 that she had an eating disorder in 2008, and in 2017, she revealed that she had miscarried. Drew Hazel East, her first kid, was born in 2019, and Jett James East, her second child, was born in 2021.
Who was in Shawn Johnson’s wedding?
Nine gentlemen and bridesmaids attended the wedding. In front of at least 150 family members and friends, including retired Olympic gold medalist and gymnast Nastia Liukin, 26, who participated in the 2008 Olympics with Johnson, they exchanged vows on a grassy knoll close to a barn. The wedding had a barn-chic aesthetic.
When was Shawn Johnson’s baby boy born?
The 29-year-old (then) former gymnast joked that her 4-week-old son, Jett James, who she welcomed with husband Andrew East on July 19, is “already half my size” in a sweet Instagram picture on Monday. The mother of two is seen grinning for the camera as she carries her sleeping infant boy on her chest.