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President Barack Obama fabricated the allurement in a buzz call. "We'll absolutely booty him up on it," Douglas said.
The girls say they are aggravating to get the best out of this post-London euphoria. Long canicule of interviews, autographs and photo ops haven't larboard them jaded. "Were adequate every footfall of the way," said Wieber, who with Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Kyla Ross and Aly Raisman gave the United States its aboriginal Olympic aggregation appellation in women's gymnastics aback 1996.
Douglas additionally won the women's all-around alone gymnastics competition.
They assert they're not annoyed or homesick, admitting activity weeks afore authoritative their way home backward this week. Wieber says she has awash appealing abundant aggregate she owns into four suitcases, including her own pillow, and hasn't looked back.
"We've been accepting so abundant fun the accomplished few days," agreed Douglas, who has Tweeted photos of herself affair Nicki Minaj, Karmin and Nick Cannon, and additionally has savored online congratulations from Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. She aggregate a couch with aboriginal adult Michelle Obama on "Tonight" with Jay Leno.
She is still cat-and-mouse for her allurement to arise on "The Vampire Diaries," hands-down her admired TV show. Wieber? She'd like a little gig on "Teen Wolf."
Douglas and Wieber are still girls, and they accede not actuality absolutely able for all the absorption and publicity they've accustomed over the accomplished few weeks. Douglas is 16, and Wieber 17.
"I don't anticipate anyone accepted this. ... I didn't apprehend this," said Wieber, of DeWitt, Mich.
Instead of authoritative back-to-school affairs for the fall, they're gearing up for the 40-city Kellogg's Bout of Gymnastics Champions.
"Not abounding 17-year-old girls get to do this, so I don't feel like were missing much," Wieber said.
Douglas, who lives and is home accomplished in Des Moines, Iowa, to be abreast her coaches best of the time, would aloof like to accept time to do a little ablaze gymnastics training in the acting afore the bout — and maybe try a CrossFit conditioning conditioning that emphasizes ability and cardio. "We all demand to break in shape," she said.
On Thursday, they were accomplishing their latest annular with journalists at Manhattan's chichi Surrey Hotel off Madison Avenue. There were publicists, architecture artists, photographers and ancestors associates all over the accommodation apartment as Douglas and Wieber talked up the articles they use as P&G Beauty spokeswomen. (Pantene Pro-V absterge and conditioner for Douglas; Olay facial cleansing wipes for Wieber.)
During the Olympics, they did their own beard and architecture for all the competitions — and those millions of photos. As a team, sometimes they'd appraisal themselves, Douglas said, chief the abutting day to lighten up on the eyeliner or abrasion added blush. But they didn't pay abundant absorption to any critics of their actualization alike as Douglas' slicked aback bisected pony-tail became the allocution of the Olympics.
Douglas, who on Thursday wore her beard apart and flowy, said while she admired the transformation the pros accord to their look, she, Wieber and their teammates absitively they array of like it bigger back they do it themselves.
"Sometimes," Douglas said, "it aloof looks a little bit added like us."
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