Rihanna regarded fierce in grey forward of the Met Gala on Monday — and introduced her third being pregnant within the course of.
The Fenty founder — a longtime Met Gala staple whose accomplice A$AP Rocky is cochairing the occasion this yr — was noticed earlier than arriving at Monday’s star-studded occasion. Whereas the music icon sported a grey hat and two-piece set with grey socks and darker grey pointy heels, all eyes had been on one thing else: the star’s pregnant abdomen.
Sure, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s third little one collectively. The 2 are already mother and father to RZA Athelston Mayers, born on Might 13, 2022, and Riot Rose Mayers, born on August 3, 2023.
Rocky advised reporters who congratulated him on the being pregnant information: “It feels wonderful.”
“It’s time that we present the individuals what we was cooking up. And I’m glad all people’s pleased for us ‘trigger we undoubtedly pleased, you recognize,” he stated.
Rocky added that the reception is a “blessing.”
“As a result of you know the way like some individuals in different conditions at occasions could be envious of different individuals. However we’ve been seeing love for probably the most half,” he stated. “And we actual receptive to that and admire that, you recognize what I imply? That’s love. Love is love.”
By the point Rihanna lastly took the carpet on the Met Gala — the star is thought to reach fashionably late to the Met Gala, normally with a dramatic outfit — she had modified out of her grey look and right into a swimsuit costume, full with a black hat, tie and pinstripe skirt that sat low to indicate off her stomach.
Rihanna attends the Met Gala. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos)
Earlier within the evening, Rihanna was seen arriving on the Carlyle Resort in New York Metropolis. (Steve Eichner/WWD by way of Getty Photos)
Rihanna advised Leisure Tonight that she was “good” and “shockingly feeling OK” in her third being pregnant. “And never too overwhelmed in the meanwhile. At first, I used to be type of like, drained, however I’m excited.”
The singer wasn’t the one star to debut a child bump on the pink carpet final evening. Mannequin Karlie Kloss, who shares two sons with husband Joshua Kushner, cradled her child bump in a black costume.
This isn’t the primary time Rihanna introduced a being pregnant at a serious cultural occasion. On the Tremendous Bowl halftime present in February 2023, followers had been stunned to see that the “What’s My Identify?” singer was anticipating her second little one when her outfit confirmed off her pregnant abdomen.
Nevertheless, Rihanna later shared that she hadn’t supposed to announce her being pregnant to the world — and that it was a backstage snafu that pressured the scenario.
“My jumper couldn’t zip up,” she advised Entry Hollywood in December 2023. “Nobody knew I used to be pregnant — I simply advised my stylist, ‘Ensure it’s stretchy.’”
Rihanna introduced her first being pregnant in January 2022, after photographers seen her child bump in New York Metropolis.
The nine-time Grammy winner beforehand spoke to British Vogue about changing into a mother, telling the journal in 2023: “Oh, my God, it is legendary. It is all the things. You actually do not bear in mind life earlier than, that is the craziest factor ever. You actually attempt to bear in mind it — and there are pictures of my life earlier than — however the feeling, the needs, the issues that you just get pleasure from, all the things, you simply do not determine with it since you do not even enable your self mentally to get that far, as a result of … it does not matter.”
