Simone Biles has been busy. There was the tour with Kellogg’s in the fall, a victory lap through 36 cities where she performed with her gymnastics teammates from the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Then she published a best-selling memoir, “Courage to Soar,” went on her first date, attended the Golden Globe Awards and celebrated her 20th birthday.

And, yes, she’s started showing her moves on the ABC television show “Dancing With the Stars,” dancing the Brazilian samba to the Destiny’s Child song “Survivor” – “I’m not gon’ give up, I’m not gon’ stop, I’m gon’ work harder” – to avoid elimination last Monday.

Three days later, she was high-fiving students in the halls of Arlington Science Focus Elementary School in Virginia in her first appearance as a spokeswoman for the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. She took time off from her six-hours-a-day dance training to talk with kids about Rio, peer pressure and the dangers of underage drinking.

“I just realized I’m really short,” she said, laughing while greeting kids who nearly reached her height (about 4 feet 9 inches).

Was she ever bullied, one student wondered? “Yes,” Biles said, walking across the gym floor with a mic in hand, wearing a white tank top and maroon leggings. “You just have to have confidence in yourself.”

Did she have to give anything up to become such a great athlete? “Late nights with friends,” of course.

Was it hard to dance on television? “I’ve been barefoot my whole life,” she said, “so I call my shoes the devil.”

When Biles was a baby, her birth mother struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. Biles and her younger sister lived in foster care for a time before being adopted by their grandfather and his wife and growing up near Houston. She’s now working with an organization that helps foster children (kids who don’t have parents who can care for them), in addition to speaking out against underage drinking.

“You don’t need to drink like all the other kids just to feel cool,” Biles told KidsPost. “You’ll be a lot healthier if you don’t do it” – scientists have found that alcohol can cause brain damage, especially in teenagers – “and 21 is not an old age to wait to, you know?”

Biles said she joined “Dancing With the Stars” to try something new but also to show that she’s “normal.” People “always see me in the gym,” she said, “but they only ever see me at my best, not whenever I’m frustrated, crying, trying to learn something. So they think I’m perfect, but no one is.”

Despite setting a U.S. women’s gymnastics record with four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics, Biles insists that she’s pretty much a normal person. She likes oatmeal for breakfast and sometimes treats herself to pizza and ice cream for dinner. Her favorite subject is social studies (she’s planning to attend college eventually, maybe at the University of California at Los Angeles), and she says she has struggled at times with doubts about her abilities.

Oatmeal, social studies and occasional self-doubt – these are all pretty normal things. But Biles does say she has an unusual way of relaxing: bowling.

“I’m not the best,” she said, in part because she’s missed many years of potential practice to focus on gymnastics. “But I try.”