Rihanna talks fashion, motherhood as due date approaches

Rihanna seems on the Dior Prepared To Put on Fall/Winter 2022-2023 style assortment in Paris on March 1, 2022. (Photograph by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)

Timekeeping is not Rihanna's robust swimsuit, and that goes for the being pregnant she's been sharing with the world as effectively.

“Planning? I would not say planning,” she advised Vogue about her upcoming motherhood. “However definitely not planning towards it. I do not know once I ovulate or any of that sort of (expletive). We simply had enjoyable. After which it was simply there on the take a look at.”

Now in her third trimester, the music star, and style and wonder mogul hasn't precisely been hiding underneath a maternity tent since she and boyfriend A$AP Rocky introduced they had been anticipating in late January through a wintry New York road picture shoot. Since, she's made the style week rounds in Milan and Paris sporting a spread of belly-bearing couture.

If it isn't one thing she would have placed on pre-pregnancy, Rihanna stated, it isn't one thing on her checklist now.

“My physique is doing unbelievable issues proper now, and I am not going to be ashamed of that,” she stated. “This time ought to really feel celebratory. As a result of why must you be hiding your being pregnant?”

The quilt interview, out Tuesday, has 34-year-old Rihanna in a lacy pink Alaia bodysuit and lengthy gloves. It is simply one of many quite a few rule-breaking designer appears she's been sporting in celebration of her bump.

So how is she feeling in regards to the subsequent half, the place she really provides delivery and scheduling probably kicks in?

Rihanna needs all of her closest family members may very well be within the room, however that appears unlikely underneath COVID-19 guidelines. She did not disclose the place she'll be headed for labor and supply - or when she's due for that matter.

“Possibly I will simply have a celebration bus parked exterior or one thing,” she stated. And what frightens her essentially the most? “Postpartum despair. Will I really feel uncontrolled emotionally? These are the tales I hear from different girls that scare me.”