Rihanna announced her first pregnancy in style at the end of last month and the star is gushing over the changes she is experiencing as her baby bump continues to blossom.
Fans of the 34-year-old Barbadian singer were overjoyed last month when she announced she was expecting her first baby with 33-year-old rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky, aka Rakim Mayers.
The couple subtly broke the news by taking a romantic stroll through the Harlem neighbourhood of New York in a snow storm – with Rihanna showcasing her growing baby bump by revealing it beneath a pink Chanel coat.
Now the chart topping star has explained she is fully enjoying her countdown to becoming a mother – and all the ways he body is changing in the process.
She said: “My boobs have been growing by the week.”
She added: “When women get pregnant, society tends to make it feel like you hide, hide your sexy, and that you’re not sexy right now (but) you’ll get back there and I don’t believe in that sh*t.
“So I’m trying stuff that I might not have even had the confidence to try before I was pregnant. The strappiest, the thinnest and the more cut-outs the better for me.”
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And it seems it's not just a baby that Rihanna has been busy making, as reports abound that she is about to imminently drop a surprise album.
A source told The Sun last week: "It's happening. Rihanna will drop an album this year. She is getting ready to release this year.
"It is always something she had planned to do for her fans. She has heard their calls for her new tunes, and knows they have been waiting so patiently.
"She's excited to bring them something new."
However fans are also warned that it is expected to be Rihanna’s last album “for a while” as she is planning to focus her efforts on motherhood and her beauty and fashion lines rather than music going forward.
It has been six long years since Rihanna last unleashed music – with her critically acclaimed, Grammy Award nominated 2016 album Anti.
The record topped the album charts in the USA, reached number 7 in the UK, and included the singles Work, Needed Me, and Kiss It Better.
Fans have been begging Rihanna for a ninth album in the years since Anti was released.
Reacting to one fan who demanded via Twitter in May 2020: “Where’s the album!”, the star replied: “I lost it” along with a shrugging emoji.
And when another commented: “DON'T DROP THAT ALBUM”, she responded: “navy this who to blame right here look. (sic)”.
Teasing fans back in 2019, the star also joked she had in fact completed her album, but was refusing to release it.
Sharing a short video clip of a dog jumping to the tune of House of Pain’s classic hit Jump Around, she joked: “Update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it.”
