Rihanna lit the world on fire when she revealed her second pregnancy during her Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show in February – but the major moment actually wasn’t even planned.
Talking to Access Hollywood on the red carpet of her newest Puma launch on Monday (December 18), the mother of two explained that the unplanned reveal was merely a situation caused by her belly getting too big.
AD LOADING...
“Here’s the thing – I did what I had to do, right?” she laughed. “My jumper couldn’t zip up. No one knew I was pregnant, I just told my stylist to make sure it’s stretchy. So the under arm was stretchy and this was baggy but you know, the zip. It just stopped right there, so it had to be what it had to be!”
You can watch the interview below.
Parris Goebel, who choreographed what became the most watched halftime show in history, shared nearly the same story just days after the show in February as well.
“[Rihanna was] not planning to make a reveal at all,” she told Good Morning America at the time. “She was going to maybe wear something baggy that didn’t really show and then leading up to the show we were just like, ‘Oh, she’s really showing.’”
AD LOADING...
Rihanna’s halftime show was her first live performance in almost five years, and it garnered nearly 121.017 million viewers on February 12.
Just under six months later on August 3, Rihanna gave birth to baby number two with A$AP Rocky – a son named Riot Rose Mayers.
The pair kept their first son’s name a secret for nearly a year – but just ahead of his first birthday, his Wu-Tang Clan-inspired name was revealed. RZA was born on May 13, 2022, making him just over one year older than his baby brother.
Back in February, Rihanna admitted she’d like to have even more kids in the future to grow their family of four.
AD LOADING...
“Listen, I’m down for whatever,” she told British Vogue. “My wish would be I would like to have more kids but whatever God wants for me, I’m here.
“We’re best friends with a baby. We have to be on the same page, but we’ve always kind of had that in our relationship. Everything changes when you have a baby, but I wouldn’t say it’s done anything but made us closer.
AD LOADING...
“The second Rocky makes eye contact with [RZA] he is on fire. The whole thing they say about sons and moms, it’s a myth. Sons and fathers is crazy. I realized that the validation that you really need as a boy is from your father.”
