By no means one to draw back from a vey public child announcement, Rihanna didn’t disappoint when she revealed she is about to turn out to be a mum for a 3rd time.
Celebrity Rihanna introduced her third being pregnant by exhibiting off her child bump on a star-studded Met Gala blue carpet.
The pop icon and make-up mogul, who beforehand revealed her second being pregnant throughout the 2023 Tremendous Bowl half-time present, was seen dashing right into a New York lodge hours earlier than the gala, whereas her associate A$AP Rocky made his entrance on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.
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The couple, who already share two kids, added one other headline second when Rocky, additionally a 2025 Met Gala co-chair, arrived holding a diamond-studded umbrella and carrying a customized look by AWGE, his personal artistic company.
“It feels wonderful, you understand. It’s time that we present the folks what we was cooking up,” he mentioned.
“And I’m glad everyone’s blissful for us ’trigger we undoubtedly blissful.”
However what do we all know concerning the dad and mom and the way they received collectively?
Let’s check out their relationship timeline beneath.
The pair have admitted they have been pals earlier than they turned a pair, and we witnessed in public greater than a decade in the past.
Rocky was featured in a remix of Rihanna’s single “Cockiness (Love It),” a tune concerning the singer’s sexual dominance over her associate.
They then continued to work collectively, with the rapper becoming a member of Rihanna on one a part of her world tour in 2013.
He joined the North American leg of the Diamonds tour, performing as her opening act.
2018 – Rumours begin to swirl
The pair have a uncommon public look, exhibiting their friendship remains to be going robust.
They appeared collectively, sitting collectively entrance row on the Louis Vuitton present at Paris Style Week, which began the hearsay mill going as to whether or not they have been formally an merchandise.
However recognized for being non-public about their house lives, neither of them touch upon the difficulty publicly and on the time, Rihanna was nonetheless together with her then-partner Hassan Jameel.
Later that very same 12 months Rocky went alongside to a charity occasion organised by Rihanna.
Often called the Diamond Ball, it’s a vogue and charitable occasion, which helps the Clara Lionel Basis, the organisation Rihanna based to assist instructional programmes for younger folks world wide.
One other day, one other vogue occasion.
The pair walked the purple carpet collectively on the British Style Awards in London in September of that 12 months. Rihanna wore a mint-green gown by her vogue model, Fenty, whereas Rocky wore a black Fendy swimsuit.
2020 – Rhianna is single and so they turn out to be an merchandise
Rihanna break up from boyfriend of three years Hassan Jameel, which put the ASAP hearsay mill again into overdrive.
A supply advised The Solar on the time that the pair have been rising nearer.
They have been reported as saying: “[Rihanna and Rocky] shared a lodge suite throughout a visit in New York. Rihanna is reluctant to place a label on it as it is so quickly after Hassan. They’re actually having fun with one another’s firm and taking issues simple because it’s nonetheless early days.”
The insider continued: “It is actually informal between them and she or he’s not fascinated with whether or not there is a future with Rocky. She’s a newly-single woman having enjoyable.”
Within the September of that 12 months the pair collaborate on her Fenty line:
She launched a spread of males’s skincare, and used Rocky to put it on the market.
By December, they have been mentioned to be inseparable and American media retailers confirmed they have been formally an merchandise.
“They have been inseparable the previous few weeks,” an insider advised Folks publication. “It is a new relationship, however they each appear very into it.”
Rihanna kicked off the 12 months backing her beau – returning the favour to assist him together with his endeavours outdoors music.
On Instagram, Rihanna promoted a spread of footwear he had designed in January.
The pair from this 12 months onwards are public with their appearances collectively, and are noticed on date nights, going for dinner. Nonetheless, neither of them have but made any assertion about being collectively at this level.
However this all adjustments in Might of 2021 when Rocky very a lot goes public, calling Rihanna “the One” throughout an interview with GQ Journal.
Throughout the chat he known as Rihanna each “my girl” and “the love of my life.”
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He acknowledged his “girls man previous” however mentioned: “(It’s) so a lot better once you received the One. She quantities to in all probability, like, 1,000,000 of the opposite ones. I feel when you understand, you understand. She’s the one.”
2022 – Being pregnant announcement
She revealed she was pregnant by going out with a naked child bump in a stroll round New York, strolling hand in hand with Rocky.
An unique Folks supply advised the publication: “She could not be happier and is so excited to be a mother. She’s loving all of the adjustments to her physique throughout being pregnant and has at all times celebrated pregnant ladies in her runway exhibits for Fenty.
“They’re identical to another pair of parents-to-be. Sure, they occur to be well-known however they’re simply the cutest, giddiest younger couple that is anticipating youngsters.”
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The couple’s first son RZA was born in Might 2022.
2023 – Second baby and marriage rumours
Rihanna stuns the world throughout her old flame efficiency in six years by not solely performing on the Tremendous Bowl, however by utilizing the efficiency to announce her second being pregnant.
And never solely that, however her greatest fan, Rocky, was captured recording her proudly as she did so.
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A couple of weeks after her efficiency, Rihanna did an interview with British Vogue, the place she spoke about her rising household.
She mentioned: “We’re finest pals with a child.We now have to be on the identical web page, however we have at all times form of had that in our relationship. The whole lot adjustments when you have got a child however I would not say it is finished something however made us nearer.”
The pair later gas marriage rumours when Rocky performs on the Spotify Seashore on the Cannes Lions Worldwide Competition of Creativity in France and refers to Rihanna in a speech to the gang as his “spouse”.
The pair welcomed second son Riot in August of that 12 months.
The couple seem like going from power to power as new dad and mom.
“We noticed vogue the identical. We noticed artistic the identical. We ended up in the identical circles loads. And previous that, once we grew up, we ended up supporting one another’s manufacturers and merchandise and inventive on a regular basis. I might put on his sh**, he would present as much as my launches. But it surely wasn’t till the tip of 2019 [that we got together] …”
“We’ve recognized one another for a very long time. I’ve seen him in relationships. He’s seen me in relationships. We’ve seen one another outdoors of relationships. We knew what we’re able to, and the difficulty that we might carry to one another’s lives,” she mentioned.
Rocky later provides an interview himself with W journal talking nothing however reward for Rihanna, saying he knew she was “the One”.
“I knew from once we have been youthful. We each did, I feel. So it was solely proper once we received older. We simply form of reconnected.”
2025 – Assist in courtroom and third child
Rocky appeared in courtroom, charged with an incident which was alleged to have occurred again in 2021.
A jury discovered Rocky not responsible within the felony assault trial during which he had been accused by former pal A$AP Relli of firing a semi-automatic handgun at him.
Rihanna stayed by Rocky’s facet for the trial the place he confronted two fees of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
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Rihanna took to her Instagram story following the decision writing: ““The glory belongs to God and God alone! Grateful, humbled by his mercy!”
The pair then in Might attended the Met Ball the place they once more publicly announce they’re pregnant with their third baby.
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She wore a black ensemble and even posed cradling her rising child bump.
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