As una sabi, Beyonce dey expect pikin. Yeah, a baby.You don’t know? Common this is no longer new. Well, she's expecting not just a baby but twins to join daughter Blue Ivy.
Beyoncé announced on her Instagram Wednesday that she is expecting twins with husband Jay Z, 47, by telling fans they have been “blessed two times.” But the Lemonade singer has faced heartbreak on the road to motherhood before.
In her 2013 HBO documentary Life Is But a Dream, the Grammy winner revealed that she suffered a miscarriage before having daughter Blue Ivy, now 5. The singer spoke about learning she was pregnant and the pain that came when she learned she lost the baby.
“About two years ago, I was pregnant for the first time,” Beyoncé said. “And I heard the heartbeat, which was the most beautiful music I ever heard in my life.” After the happiness of hearing her baby’s heartbeat for the first time, the singer said she “envisioned what my child would look like” and was feeling “very maternal.”
“Being pregnant was very much like falling in love,” she said about her first pregnancy. “You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There’s no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you, so of course you want to scream it out and tell everyone.”
But before she could share the good news, the singer had complications in the early stages. “I flew back to New York to get my check up – and no heartbeat,” she said. “Literally the week before I went to the doctor, everything was fine, but there was no heartbeat.”
This led the singer to go into the studio and write “the saddest song I’ve ever written in my life.”
“And it was actually the first song I wrote for my album. And it was the best form of therapy for me, because it was the saddest thing I’ve ever been through,” she said.
The singer’s husband also mentioned the miscarriage in a song released two days after Blue’s birth titled “Glory.” In between lyrics that address the little girl and welcome her arrival, the rapper sings about how “last time the miscarriage was so tragic/We was afraid you disappeared but nah baby, you magic.”
Jay Z also addressed the pain the couple went through, rapping near the beginning of the tune: “False alarms and false starts/All made better by the sound of your heart/All the pain of the last time/I prayed so hard it was the last time.”
In the documentary, Beyoncé also shot down whispers that she used a gestational surrogate to have Blue, calling it a “stupid rumor, the most ridiculous rumor I’ve ever heard about me.”
“To think that I would be that vain,” the star said before adding that giving birth is “the most powerful thing you can ever do in your life.”
“[It was] the most beautiful experience of my life. It was amazing. I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. You’re playing a part in a much bigger show,” she added.
Armchair art critics have been keen to offer up their own explanations to this record breaking instagram photo. [I no sabi the record where the picture break oh, abeg no ask me]
"So perhaps Beyonce's having a girl & a boy, hence the pink bra & blue panties?" suggested @nicbamford on Twitter.
"She's SURROUNDED by beautiful flowers. This is her connection with life and earth. She's energised by nature" said @TheHelenOfTrill
"Pretty blatant Virgin Mary and pagan fertility imagery going on in Beyonce's pregnancy announcement" added @MildlyAmused.
Others were more confused than enlightened by the picture's composition.
Lisa McCray was more concerned about streched markes. She tweeted: "Friend. Do you legit not have stretch marks? How?"
Katie Leigh cut to the chase: "I cannot be the only one who thinks Beyonce's maternity pictures are extremely weird." - [Now this lady is thinking like me]
The Guardian chose to interpret it on a purely artistic level, pointing out its resemblance to "late 15th century Flemish portraiture, when it was popular to depict a subject from a three-quarter angle, often in front of a landscape, and with hands clasped in front". The background flowers, it said, are derived from "rococo influences" as is the photo's "overall celebration of love and pleasure".
Meanwhile, the tabloids as usual searched for proof that Beyonce is a member of the Illuminati - the shadowy secret society believed by conspiracy theorists to be the mastermind behind global events.
"Beyonce is supposedly positioned in a pyramid shape - a key symbol for the Illuminati," said The Sun.
"Theories say the presence of a pyramid or triangle represents the top down command structure of the world." (una no dey tire?)
Whatever the deeper meaning behind Beyonce's pregnancy announcement, it has got the world talking. Had she simply posted a shot of an ultrasound or two blue lines on a home pregnancy test kit, it perhaps wouldn't have become today's top headline.
This has not only made today’s headlines, or broken records. But e don prove say the belle na real. As rumours had it that the baby bump was fake. So, I guess stripping down to expose her protruding stomach in 2017 was really a smart move. Congratulations beyounce, make e no be like say i be bad belle.
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