Rihanna Reveals She’s Pregnant Via Super Bowl Halftime Show
The new mom, who's just nine months postpartum, started the show with "Bitch Better Have My Money" while caressing a burgeoning baby bump.
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For those of you who aren’t brain-poisoned enough to care about what happens on the football field this Sunday night, unlike me, Super Bowl LVII will go down in history books both as a stunning Rihanna concert. The internet immediately became convinced that the performance may have doubled as a surprise announcement that she and A$AP Rocky are expecting their second child—as Rihanna appeared to spotlight her belly and rub it several times throughout the performance—and they were spot on. Rihanna’s team confirmed the news to People Sunday night, making this both a historic performance and a historic pregnancy announcement. Please note that Rihanna is just nine months postpartum and pulled off a 13-minute vocal performance…all while pregnant.
It’s been seven years since Rihanna stepped foot on stage, and other than a single she put out for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in October, it’s also been seven years since she put out her last album, Anti. Despite fans begging (and screaming and crying) for new music for years, Rihanna is also unfortunately aware that between Savage x Fenty and Fenty Beauty, she is a thriving billionaire who quite literally never needs to make music again. Lucky for us, either her bursting passion for live performance or her thirst for more revenue has gifted us this moment in time in which the reigning queen of R&B—and pop and ballads, etc!—who provided the soundtrack to the early aughts for millennials growing up is once again taking the stage. It happens to be the biggest stage in the world. (And she found a minute to hype Fenty because, of course.)
After much speculation about how Rihanna would open the show and a decadent promotional rollout that included an ad in which the singer looked like Martha May Whovier from The Grinch, she started the show in an all-red jumpsuit and bustier with “Bitch Better Have My Money.” If there was any doubt why she took this gig, well, that’s settled.