Rihanna is waiting for her third child. The 37 -year -old singer He confirmed his pregnancy when appearing with his belly visibly bulky at Met Gala 2025, held on Monday in New York.
The revelation occurred before his arrival on the red carpet, when he appeared at the Carlyle Hotel Lucing A set that suggested his pregnant status.
Dressed with a gray two -piece set, half to matching knee and heel shoes of the same tone, the founder of Fenty Beauty He tried to hide his abdomen at times with a brown skin scarf, while crossing the rain under black umbrellas.
The scene was registered by the photographers who waited for their appearance and subsequently confirmed by a source close to the artist, he published Page Six.
The interpreter of “Umbrella” is already mother of two children: RZAborn in May 2022, and Riot Rosewho arrived in the world in August 2023, the result of his relationship with the rapper at $ Ap Rocky, 36 years old.
Both began their sentimental link in 2020, after years of professional collaboration from their first joint work in the remix of the song “Cockiness (Love IT)” in 2012.
For a long time, Rihanna has expressed his desire to form a large family. In an interview with British Vogue In 2020, he said he planned to have “three or four children”, without considering the presence of a couple.
“I feel that society wants me to think I was wrong. They decrease you as a mother if there is no father in the life of your children,” he said then. “But The only thing that matters is happiness. That is the only healthy relationship between a father and a son. The only thing that can raise a real child is love”.
In December 2023, during a talk with AND! Newsthe artist suggested her intention to find a daughter after having had two men.
“Until now, I have children. I have a 75 percent chance that the next one is another child. So we are going to cross my fingers,” he said.
In another interview with Access Hollywoodhe praised his partner’s paternal facet: “I loved him differently as a father. It’s like: ‘Wow! What a leader, what a great patient and loving father, ”he said.
His first pregnancy was revealed in January 2022 through an image captured by paparazzi in which he walked with Rocky under a bridge of Riverside Drivein New York.
On that occasion, he exhibited his belly discovered despite the winter cold. A year later, he announced his second pregnancy on stage, during his performance in the part -time show of the Super Bowl.
-From his first pregnancy, Rihanna has maintained a clear aesthetic line: Avoid traditional maternity clothesLy opt, on the other hand, by garments that reveal their belly directly.
He has not wear baggy dresses or denim pants for pregnant women. On the contrary, has exposed his belly with costumes that include fringes, transparent tops, holders at sight and haute couture pieces of firms such as Valentino, Gucci y Dior.
During a beauty event of Fentywas presented with degraded pants and a top with green fringes.
In it Super Bowlcarried a bra and a transparent blue blouse, accompanied by low -shot gray pants.
He also wore a black vinyl set with dragon ornaments and a glass headdress in a parade of Gucciand a type dress baby doll transparent on lace lingerie in an event after Oscar organized by Jay-Z.
But beyond fashion, culture and gender studies have interpreted their attitude as a political position.
Liza Tsaliki, a professor at the National University and Kapodistrian of Athens, said that this choice to show her pregnancy is part of a “totally transgressive and very political statement”.
This perspective is inserted in the context of surveillance on female bodies and the aestheticization of pregnancy in contemporary culture.
In that line, Renée Ann Cramerauthor of the book Pregnant With the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bumphe said that in a climate where the right of people with female identity is questioned to decide on their bodies, Rihanna Challenge those rules.
“He is saying: ‘I’m still a person, and I’m my own person’. It can be autonomous, powerful and herself, even brewing a life, ”she said.
For Cramer, showing pregnancy without filters or concessions becomes an act of resistance to centuries of history in which the pregnant body has been hidden or romantized.
“I expected the announcement,” he said. “And perhaps some other carefully calculated appearances. But it has not been covered again.”
