Since 2016, Rihanna fans have been getting impatient. When will a new album be released? Completely different news reached them on Monday. The interpreter of“Umbrella” and “Don’t stop the music” is pregnant for the first time, at the age of 33. In a series of consensual shots, photographer Miles Diggs immortalized Rihanna’s baby bump this weekend in New York’s Harlem neighborhood. The singer, hand in hand with her companion A$AP Rocky, poses in front of the lens without hiding her rounded belly. In a long pink coat unbuttoned at the bottom, she shows us the growing bump, adorned with bling-bling jewelry.
The announcement of this pregnancy is not insignificant when we know that Rihanna has been subjected to body shaming for several years. Praised for her flat stomach early in her career, many critics accused her of letting herself go because of weight gain. This bashing even reached very violent remarks. In 2017, American blogger Chris Spags dared Tweeter : “Is Rihanna going to make being fat the new trend?”
After months of persistent rumors about a first child, Rihanna therefore chooses controlled communication, as many singers before her have already done. Beyoncé, in an Instagram post from February 1, 2017, announced the arrival of her second child, seated in front of a wreath of flowers and dressed in a transparent veil. She even broke the counters with almost 11 million views.
Social networks have become essential tools for artists to control their privacy. But pregnant or not pregnant, Rihanna’s weight gain shouldn’t be a problem in the eyes of fans and others. Her body, like that of many women, has the right to yo-yo.
The heroine from Barbados already said in a March 2020 Vogue interview that she wanted “three or four” children. As for his companion, he confided to GQ magazine in May 2021 that he would be “an incredible, remarkable, overall incredible father”.