The Team USA athlete controversially missed out on a bronze medal in the women's floor event at last year's Olympics in Paris but will always be grateful for the sport for pulling her out of some tough times as a child.
Chiles told The Cut: "My sport saved my life. I had really, really bad ADHD when I was younger, and gymnastics helped me calm down. I fell in love with flipping around and doing crazy things. I always had a very spontaneous mind. At a young age, we would go camping and I’d be jumping off cliffs into the water. Did I think I was going to be somebody when I was older? 100 per cent. Did I think it was going to be this way? No, not at all."
Chiles has written the new memoir 'I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams' and explained that she has taught herself to manage the various aspects of her life effectively.
She said: "I taught my brain to separate my sport, my business, and my life. When I’m at the gym, I focus on the gym. When I’m with my publicist or my agent, I focus on business. And when I’m at home, I focus on my life.
"It’s going to be stressful because I’m a businesswoman, I’m a student-athlete. I constantly go from place to place, state to state, city to city. But I have found a way to separate my lives. Sometimes I’ll journal, sometimes I’ll draw, sometimes I’ll go on Pinterest and imagine what my wedding will look like."
