Personal Life
Lolo was named Lori at birth, after her mother, but said she started going by "Lolo" in order to differentiate the two on the telephone. Her mother claims that "Lolo" is what she called her daughter from birth.
A 2005 graduate of Louisiana State University, Jones currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is sponsored by Asics and Oakley. She is of Native American, African, French and Norwegian descent. She is a devout Christian, and often prays before competitions, and talks about her faith on Twitter.
In a 2012 segment on HBO's Real Sports, Jones revealed that she is a virgin, dates online, and struggles to maintain her virginity. She said “If there’s virgins out there, I’m going to let them know, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life—harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.”
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