Simone Biles feels "no shame" after undergoing a number of cosmetic surgeries in secret

Biles told PEOPLE: "It's just who I am and I feel like I've always tried to be open, honest and relatable ... [Others should feel] no shame [about having surgery] ...

"I got a lower bleph [eye-bag procedure] because me and my family have, I call it the 'Biles eye bags'. We've just always had them, hereditary, and so that was just a big flaw. Every time I would go to a shoot, they're like: 'Oh, can we put some strips on her?'

"And I was like: 'Oh, baby, I had 12 hours [sleep] last night, these aren't going away. These are just hereditary'. So it's something that I wanted to fix."

She added of her breast augmentation: "Okay, obviously you can notice the breasts. But other than that, it's just feeling good about yourself and loving yourself, and I've always been very vocal about that.

"And not that I didn't like the way I looked or the way I felt. It's just something that I notice obviously a little bit more because I live in this body, I'm just so used to it."

Biles went on to insist she hopes her decision to be honest about her surgeries helps other young women.

She added: "I also think it shows young girls that they have the right to their own choices, whatever they are, and that's no shame added as well.

"I feel like nowadays with social media, you see everyone and you're like: 'Oh my God, how does she look so good?'

"Social media is not real, so that's why I try to be as transparent as possible ...

"But that's why also I've told them, on my 27th birthday I got Botox - and for me, it didn't go well. I didn't like it because I had a floating eyebrow and everyone was asking what that was. So I tried to share it."