Rihanna apparently had no idea she was going to have a baby on board when she agreed to headline one of the world’s biggest events after a years-long hiatus.
More than 100 million viewers tuned in on Sunday as the Fenty Beauty mogul performed at the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show while also revealing she was pregnant with her second child. It wasn’t just her first performance since the birth of her son in May — aside from the 2018 Grammys, the “Diamonds” singer hadn’t performed in nearly seven years.
Rihanna was a few months after giving birth when she agreed to take on the challenge. In a recent interview with British Vogue, published Wednesday, she said she still couldn’t believe she said yes — and had no idea she’d be pregnant again until she went on stage.
“It’s knowing you can do anything,” she said of motherhood. “Even the things that seem the craziest, like, ‘Am I going to say yes to the Super Bowl in the middle of postpartum?'”
“What the hell am I thinking? But you’re passionate about such a challenge because you know what your body just did. You feel this feeling of ‘nothing is impossible'”.
He described September’s Super Bowl ad as “almost like an out-of-body experience.”
“From scratch to the Super Bowl? It’s mental,” he said.
Rihanna and her boyfriend, rapper A$AP Rocky, posed with their baby for the March 2023 cover of British Vogue. His name has not been publicly revealed. During her hiatus from the stage, the singer launched her multi-billion dollar Fenty Beauty empire, debuted her underwear brand Savage X Fenty and became the country’s youngest female billionaire.
