If you’ve been sleeping on who Jordan Chiles actually is, she’ll give you a pass. She’s used to it.
“People always think I’m mean,” she says, laughing. “I couldn’t tell you why.”
The two-time Olympian and Paris gold medalist has heard some version of this her whole career: people brace for someone guarded and get someone who will talk your ear off in the back of an Uber. “When you see me on social and all the things that I do, you’re going to meet that same person in real life. I’m the same person.”
It took a while to get there. Chiles is 24 and in what she’s calling her peace era, a deliberate choice she made before this year even started. “I told myself going in 2026, I was just going to be at peace this era, making sure that my mental, physical, whatever it may be, is just how I want it to feel.”
That idea of protecting her peace is what made the partnership with Uber make sense. Uber’s Women Preferences feature, now available nationwide, lets women riders and drivers opt to match exclusively with each other. Chiles appears in the campaign’s new Gamechangers social series alongside women who drive for the platform. For her, safety and mental health have always been the same conversation. “Mental health is a huge thing. As big as mental health is, that’s as big as my safety,” she says. “We are women and I think people kind of take us for granted in certain situations.”
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Author: Kimberly Wilson
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