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Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Rihanna shows off her curves as she continues to fuel fan speculation she's pregnant with third child
Rihanna showed off her famed curves this week as she continued to fuel fan speculation she's pregnant with her third child. The Bahamian beauty, 37, who is already mom to two young sons with partner A$AP Rocky, 36, stripped down to her bra and underwear as she posed on a bed. The star looked glamorous as she flashed her cleavage in the sultry snaps. 'I hope she gets her a little girl. Nothing wrong with being a boy mom. But I think she'd be a wonderful girl mom,' one fan sweetly commented. Another fan wrote, 'Pregnant with youuuuuuuuuuu,' while others refuted the claims the Pon de Replay singer is pregnant. A couple of weeks ago, Rihanna debuted a bridal collection for Fenty and as usual posed for the ads for the campaign. That move had fans convinced she was dropping a big hint about the status of her relationship with Rocky. The singer, 37, has been in a relationship with the rapper, 36, for five years and they share sons RZA, two, and Riot, one, together. Though they have been hit by rumors, they have not announced an engagement or marriage but Rihanna has now sparked speculation about their relationship. Rihanna showed off her incredible figure in a baby pink lingerie set, complete with suspenders and stockings. She added fuel to rumors she has secretly gotten engaged to Rocky as she sported a dazzling diamond sparkler on her ring finger. Though it could have just been a costume piece, the telling item and Fenty launching a bridal collection has sparked further speculation about her marriage status. She even posed alongside a wedding cake and with a veil fixed in her raven tresses as she was the face of the bridal lingerie range. Fans were quick to take to the comments to share their theories that the couple are gearing up to get married, or have already secretly tied the knot. Comments included: 'You don't remember the marry me grills they had a few years ago? I think they tied the knot tbh.' 'So is this confirmation?'; Wifey, wifey, wifey, wifey, wifey,' 'Beautiful but its announcement may be your future marriage with ASAP (sic)'; 'Are we getting the wedding we've all been dreaming about?,' 'The most beautiful bride.' Rocky recently gushed over Rihanna, describing his love for the mother of his children as 'internal, external, infinite, the past, the future' in a Vogue cover shoot. The private couple have been hit by engagement and marriage rumors over the years but have not publicly confirmed whether they have tied the knot. They were friends for more than a decade before they started dating in 2020, following Rihanna's split from her ex-boyfriend Hasan Jameel. Two years after getting together, the couple welcomed their first son RZA in May 2022. Rihanna famously announced her second pregnancy during her Super Bowl Halftime Show in February 2023, where she debuted her baby bump. She gave birth to their second son, Riot Rose, in August of that year and has since shared her hopes to have more children. Last year, Rihanna told Entertainment Tonight: 'I would definitely have more kids.' Rihanna also sent fans into a frenzy recently as she confirmed that production on her first album in nine years is underway. Rihanna's last single was Lift Me Up, which she released in October 2022 for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, but she has not released a full album since 2016's Anti.
Telegraph
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Anna Wintour says Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are fashion's most influential couple. This is why
The (fashion) queen has spoken. Dame Anna Wintour, the long-time editor-in-chief of American Vogue, has decreed that the pop star Rihanna and her boyfriend of five years, rapper A$AP Rocky, are the most influential celebrity couple when it comes to fashion. Speaking to Entertainment Tonigh t, she waxed lyrical about the twosome, saying, 'They're very talented, they're very brilliant, I think they have wonderful values, and they have an enormous amount of style.' While you might know who Rihanna is (and remember the wet summer when her single Umbrella topped the charts for 10 weeks during a particularly extreme case of pathetic fallacy), her partner and father of her two children, Rza and Riot, might be less familiar to you. But much like his girlfriend, A$AP Rocky (real name Rakim Athelaston Mayers) is renowned for being one of the most influential and stylish musicians of his generation, whose every sartorial move is followed closely by fans. Case in point: Rocky is one of a handful of men who Wintour has chosen to help her pull off this year's Met Gala, the annual soirée which takes place at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to fête the Costume Institute's upcoming exhibition. Taking on the theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style', Rocky was an obvious choice for the role (his fellow co-chairs include F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, musician and Louis Vuitton designer Pharrell Williams and actor Colman Domingo), with the showcase and gala celebrating, in Vogue's words, 'the importance of clothing and style to the formation of black identities in the Atlantic diaspora'. Since they first got together in 2020, Rocky and Rihanna have amplified each other's star appeal, not least because of their shared passion for fashion. After all, there's nothing the industry loves more than his-and-hers style, especially when it's provocative and cutting-edge (rather than, say… Canadian tuxedos à la Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, circa 2001). And actually, what's so refreshing about Rihanna and Rocky is that they don't always go for a matchy-matchy vibe, instead allowing each other's individual styles to shine through. Bursting onto the music scene with her debut single Pon de Replay back in 2005, Rihanna really became a fashion darling in the 2010s, most notably with a series of viral looks worn to the Met Gala. Two standouts include her 2014 naked dress by Stella McCartney, which ushered in an era of bold sheer styles, plus her much-referenced 2015 Guo Pei gown with its canary-yellow hue and logic-defying train. She's redefined pregnancy dressing, proudly showcasing her bare bump (whether it's a midriff-baring crop top or a sheer Alaïa gown), and even makes an effort to be photographed in head-to-toe designer looks on date night with Rocky (see: last year's red Comme des Garçons moment in New York). And while she's been on hiatus from her music for the best part of a decade (rumours of a new album crop up every now and then), Rihanna is also known today as a businesswoman. In fact, her Fenty beauty brand is widely regarded as one of the most successful celebrity-backed brands ever, changing the way the industry thought about the availability of make-up in different skin tones (something she followed up with her Savage x Fenty lingerie line, which started with inclusive nude underwear). She even briefly dipped her toe into the world of high fashion design, becoming the first black woman to own a fashion brand at the prestigious luxury conglomerate LVMH (fellow brands in its stable include Dior, Celine and Givenchy), though that shuttered in 2021. Rock,y meanwhile, has won fashion plaudits of his own. Since 2014, he's been dubbed the best-dressed man in hip hop, regularly seen wearing Gucci, Balenciaga and Loewe, and often taking sartorial risks (triple denim, anyone?). He's fronted campaigns for Bottega Veneta, sat front row at Miu Miu, and last summer launched a collection at Paris Fashion Week, dubbed 'American Sabotage'. According to talent agent Dan Comrie, who has worked on music and fashion partnerships at agencies including Keep, Elite Model Management and Next, it's the fact that their lives are so intertwined with one another that makes them particularly influential. 'Rihanna is barely seen without her husband and children, and since her first pregnancy they've been committed to displaying a unified front and a refreshingly normal view of family life, from Christmas card pictures to hanging out going for dinner,' he explains. 'Her attendance at [Rocky's] recent court case solidified them as fashion's most fashionable family in music but also showed something very real about them.' Their shared interest in cutting-edge fashion has also cemented them as a couple to watch. 'Rihanna and [Rocky] have constantly been adopters of new designers at a very early stage, showing their credibility as fashion icons and an understanding around the necessity to support new designers,' adds Comrie. 'Together they created distinct templates around genuine street culture – not empty streetwear tropes – which became global.'
The Independent
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Rihanna explains why ageing has been a ‘blessing' to her
Rihanna has reflected on the ageing process as she enters a new period of her life, saying it's 's***, but it's also a blessing'. The 37-year-old pop star first shot to fame as a 17-year-old with her hit single 'Pon de Replay'. Since then, she has had numerous chart-topping singles and albums, becoming one of the most successful artists of all time. In recent years, she has shirked fan demands for a new album and has instead focused on business ventures and her journey into motherhood. The star, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, gave birth to her first son RZA by partner A$AP Rocky in May 2022. In August 2023, the couple welcomed their second son, Riot. Rocky was recently acquitted of facing up to 24 years in prison for two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. 'Getting old is s***, but it's also a blessing,' she told Harper's Bazaar. 'My legacy is right now. That's all I have the most control over. My legacy is what I do with my time at this moment. How am I present with the people around me? How am I grateful? How am I making this a happy moment? How am I making a memory?' The 'Diamonds' singer reflected on her upbringing, explaining that her tenacity in her early years came from a dedication to her family, and a determination to become a success. 'I've always been afraid of how much is me versus what I've been influenced by,' she said. 'I left home as a teenager, and I left everything I knew: my family, my friends, my food, my culture. And I came to a big city by myself, and the only option for me was to win. I knew that I had to win. 'The suffering that I felt not being a part of anything that I knew, there was only one way to make that worth it, because I knew that my family was suffering without me too. And so I was like, 'There's no way. This has to pay off.' And that was my fight, my goal, my everything. Every single day. I only got to see my family at Christmas. So I spent the year just going for it until I saw them.' Although she is now one of the wealthiest and most influential musicians in the world, she explained that she struggles to balance her love for her work with time with her loved ones. 'Every decision I make revolves around them, but everything that I do that I love robs me from them,' she said about juggling work and motherhood. 'So I have a weird resentment with the things that I love. You almost feel like something is always suffering for you to show up somewhere. And even when you show up there, it's not 100 per cent because there's something else on the wheel. It's actually given me a lot more self-guilt. 'I have to keep reminding myself that I asked for this, I love this. I try to figure out a balance so that I can feel fulfilled when I show up to something, so I can feel I don't have any guilt.' She added: '[What I know] is that you're carving your journey. And every disappointment, letdown, hurt, good, weird, uncomfortable—it's all for you. All of your experiences, they're actually preparing you for the next step. I look at my childhood and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, God already knew that this is how my life would look.'
