Rihanna gave her “first in-depth interview since becoming a parent” to British Vogue and shared so many wonderful details about her motherhood journey thus far. The interview took place five weeks before her Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show. She was already rehearsing for the show and pregnant, but she wasn’t even showing at the time.
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The photos accompanying the article are exquisite and officially introduce the son of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky to the world. Of course, he is ridiculously adorable, and his smile is contagious. Check out the photos, as well as what Rihanna has to say about how motherhood has changed her and made her feel like “nothing is impossible.”
She can’t remember what her life was like before becoming a mom.
“You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever,” she shared. “You literally try to remember it—and there are photos of my life before—but the feeling, the desires, the things that you enjoy, everything, you just don’t identify with it because you don’t even allow yourself mentally to get that far, because…Because it doesn’t matter.”
What were the first few months after giving birth like for her?
“You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three. It’s nuts. And oh, my gosh, those first days are insane. You don’t sleep. At all. Not even if you wanted to. We came home, cold turkey, had no one. It was just us as parents and our baby. Man, you’re a zombie for the most part,” she explained. Relatable much? Absolutely!
She was as shocked as any new parent leaving the hospital with a baby.
“You’re just going through the motions,” she explained. “And even then you’re so paranoid. Because you’re like: they trusted us to come home with this baby? This new life? With us? No doctors, no nurses, we’re just… going home?”
She found postpartum style to be much harder than maternity style.
“Dressing for pregnancy was such a piece of cake,” she said “But dressing in postpartum, what the [expletive] do you do? The week that I came home from the hospital—that was nothing but sweats and hoodies. But the weeks after that, you don’t know what to put on. Everything is too small or too big. You kind of just gotta wait it out otherwise you end up buying so many clothes you’re not going to use. Well, unless you get pregnant again.”
Motherhood has made her feel capable of just about anything.
When she was asked to perform at the Super Bowl, she had just had a baby and had no idea that she would be pregnant again once the event actually came about. She agreed because she was high on the power of motherhood: “Even things that seem the craziest, like, ‘I’m going to say yes to the Super Bowl in the middle of postpartum? What the heck am I thinking?’ But you’re geeked on a challenge like that because you know what your body just did. You feel this sense of ‘Nothing is impossible.’”
She’s frustrated with the paparazzi trying to get pictures of her son.
While she, A$AP, and their baby were taking pictures for British Vogue, a paparazzo was trying to get pics of the baby, which naturally made Rihanna go into protective mode. “Throw me to the wolves. Do what you want with me. But he doesn’t have a say in any of this. We’ve been protecting him thus far and you don’t have any consent to be posting photos or selling photos of my child, a minor. Get the hell out of here with that,” she said.
That paparazzo is why she joined TikTok and shared the first video of her son.
She and A$AP could not stand the thought of that photographer making money off of pictures and introducing their child to the public without their consent. So she joined TikTok and shared the first public video of her son being adorable.
She’s really enjoying picking out her son’s outfits.
It will come as no surprise that RiRi enjoys dressing her baby boy. “I like to dress him in things that don’t look like baby clothes. I like to push it. I put him in floral stuff. I put him in hot pink. I love that. I think that fluidity in fashion is best. I always shop in the men’s department, you know.”
Will there be a line of Fenty babywear soon?
When the reporter asked her if she was considering adding babywear to her fashion enterprise, she said, “I feel like the kids need it. Let’s get these kids cool. These kids deserve to be cool.” If and when that line comes out, it’s bound to be a hit.
Did she finally share her baby boy’s name?
Nope, the writer even wrote that Rihanna, A$AP, and everyone in their families and teams were so good about calling the baby “baby” that he started to think that the baby might actually be named Baby. Oh well, we can wait.
