McKayla Maroney

About McKayla Maroney

McKayla Maroney (born December 9, 1995) is an American former actress former artistic gymnast.

Early Life

McKayla Rose Maroney was born in Aliso Viejo, California, on December 9, 1995,the daughter of Erin and Mike Maroney (died 2019).Her father was a quarterback at Purdue University,and her mother was involved in figure skating and high school sports. McKayla is of Irish Catholic descent.She has two siblings, Tarynn and Kav, and was homeschooled in order to train as an elite gymnast.

Maroney said, "When I was younger, I would be watching Tarzan and running around on all fours. My mom was like, 'I need to put this child in gymnastics. She's crazy.' I was technically in gymnastics at the age of two and always felt comfortable in the gym."When she was nine years old, she started training at Gym-Max in Costa Mesa, California. In 2012, she said, "I realized that I had a dream that I wanted to go to the Olympics and I wanted to go as far as I could go. I thought I should probably move to a new gym and start thinking about the Olympics."

About her first Olympic memory, Maroney said, "I remember watching Carly Patterson. She was one of my favorites. I loved her floor routine. I went to Olympic Trials that year (2004) with Kyla [Ross]. I remember seeing the gymnasts on the floor and I loved all of their leotards. I thought they were so little and so amazing. I thought, how am I going to stay this little? I was worried that I was going to be really tall because my dad is 6'3" and my mom is 5'2", so I didn't know which one I was going to be."

Acting Career

Maroney made her acting debut in the CW television series Hart of Dixie on November 20, 2012. She played Tonya, a friend of Rose in the episode "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me".That appearance turned into a recurring role, with Maroney appearing in six episodes of the series.

In December 2013, Maroney appeared on an episode of the Fox TV show Bones called "The Spark in the Park" (season 9), as a gymnast named Ellie who is a suspect in the murder of a fellow gymnast.

On August 19, 2016, Maroney appeared in season 2 episode 1 of the NBC TV show Superstore called "The Olympics" as herself in a number of candid appearances alongside fellow Olympians Tara Lipinski and Apolo Ohno.

Maroney appeared in several GEICO television commercials in 2021

"McKayla is not impressed"
She was once photographed in pose that looked disappointed taken after winning silver in the 2012 Olympics, became an Internet meme that went viral as “McKayla is not impressed”.

Curvaceous yet athletic body
She has retired from competitive gymnastics in 2016.
(January 15, 2019) Her father, Mike Maroney, died at the age 59.
Posed her "Not Impressed" facial expression with President Obama.

As of December 2023, she has amassed 1,400,000 followers on Instagram.