Earlier than formally hitting tonight’s prestigious carpet, Rihanna revealed that she’s pregnant together with her third youngster with A$AP Rocky, her companion, on the 2025 Met Gala. The pop singer confirmed off her child bump in an identical grey set whereas holding an umbrella and fur stole in a photograph by Miles Diggs, as shared over Instagram. When an interviewer on Met Gala carpet asked Rocky what outfit Rihanna would put on tonight, the rapper replied, “Rihanna’s outfit tonight is… I don’t know, no matter’s simply gonna actually cowl her child bump, you dig?”
Rihanna and Rocky welcomed their first youngster, RZA Athelston Mayers, in 2022 and their second child, Riot, that following year. It appears the celeb couple have a penchant for breaking the large information at high-profile occasions; Rihanna revealed her earlier maternity standing whereas headlining the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show, taking a second to grin wildly whereas displaying off her sophomore child bump.
A brand new album has been on the again burner for Rihanna for almost a decade now, as Anti got here out again in 2016. Nevertheless, she swears her still-unreleased LP is on the best way. In that interim, she did perform her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever single “Lift Me Up” at the 2023 Oscars and earned a nomination for Greatest Unique Track. (The Academy Award went to M. M. Keeravani and Chandrabose for RRR’s “Naatu Naatu” as a substitute.)
Technically, new Rihanna music is coming quickly to a theater close to you. She voices Smurfette within the upcoming animated film Smurfs, which features a Rihanna cowl of Belinda Carlisle’s 1987 pop basic “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” and guarantees extra “new music” from her, too. That hits theaters on July 18.
Seems Rocky’s obtained his eyes on the silver display screen as properly. Earlier right this moment, information broke that he was solid within the upcoming Spike Lee movie Highest 2 Lowest. That crime thriller, which additionally stars Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright, is a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s basic Excessive to Low and is ready in modern-day New York. Rocky’s most up-to-date studio album, Testing, got here out again in 2018.
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