Rihanna Confirms Whether Or Not Her Third Pregnancy Will Put ‘R9' Album 'On Pause'
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The 2025 Met Gala garnered memorable looks, surprise appearances, and most importantly, a pregnancy announcement from one of its yearly highly anticipated guests, Rihanna. As the singer stepped out in her expertly tailored look that hugged her baby bump, she welcomed questions about her bun in the oven and provided an album update.
'I'm good, I'm shockingly feeling okay and not too overwhelmed at the moment,' RiRi said on the carpet while speaking to ET. The host congratulated the mother of two and wasted no time asking the question all her fans wanted to know: 'Is this putting R9 on pause even longer? Because you were in production.'
The 'Umbrella' singer quickly shut down the thought and assured that everything is still going as planned. 'No,' she said in a sing-songy tone. 'Maybe a few videos but I could still sing.'
The Navy immediately caught wind of the interaction and shared their thoughts as they processed whether or not they are taking this album update seriously. 'Rihanna said I ain't making music I'm making babies lmao,' a top comment reads on YouTube as another person empathetically typed, 'I hope it's a gal, a mini Riri, rest with your brand new baby and then come back to work carribean queen!'
'She lie so much just like me,' one person quipped on X.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Rih also shut down rumors about her secretly getting married to A$AP Rocky. The interviewer pointed out the most recent Savage X Fenty drop was a bridal collection, but the 9x Grammy winner wasn't having it. 'No, girl! You know I don't keep secrets very well,' she said with a lighthearted eye-roll before walking away.
It's worth noting that back in June 2024, Rihanna said she's 'starting over' with R9, but 'I don't wanna neglect the songs that I have.' Since she first teased the highly anticipated body of work many years ago, the certified hitmaker has performed at the Super Bowl halftime show (and made history doing so), safely delivered two baby boys (Riot and RZA), released a track for the official Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, and scaled her Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty brands into global empires.
Although releasing new music hasn't been on the top of her to-do list over the years, it's safe to say Rihanna has never stopped working around the clock to pour into her passions.
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