Rihanna announces her third pregnancy at the Met Gala
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After famously revealing her second pregnancy during the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show, Rihanna has now debuted her third pregnancy on the Met Gala red carpet.
Closing out arrivals at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday evening, Rihanna stepped out in a custom pinstripe Marc Jacobs ensemble that showcased her baby bump, paired with a polka-dot cravat and oversized hat.
The announcement came on a historic night co-chaired by her partner A$AP Rocky, celebrating exuberant Black style and dandyism under the theme Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, inspired by the Met’s accompanying Costume Institute exhibition.
A$AP Rocky, who arrived hours earlier, wore a self-designed look he described to Vogue as “a bit of Harlem Nights,” nodding to the 1989 Eddie Murphy film. He accessorized with an umbrella and red-soled Christian Louboutin shoes. The couple share two sons.
Earlier that day, Rihanna sparked online buzz when she was photographed walking through rainy New York in a gray-blue cropped top and skirt set, accented with a fur stole and a 1920s-style cloche hat — her bump visibly on display.
On the Met Gala carpet, A$AP Rocky confirmed the news to Reuters, saying it “feels amazing” to share the pregnancy publicly. CNN has reached out to Rihanna’s representatives.
Rihanna, who also helms Fenty Beauty, wore her Marc Jacobs look in line with the event’s theme, “Tailored for You.”
She wasn’t the only star with a pregnancy reveal that night. Model Karlie Kloss also appeared in a black, high-lapel buttoned jacket — her first public outing since announcing her third child in March.
The Met Gala has increasingly become a stage for pregnancy announcements. Model Adwoa Aboah revealed hers last year in a ruffled red two-piece, while Serena Williams and Kloss both did the same the year prior. “There’s three of us here,” Williams quipped to La La Anthony on Vogue’s live red carpet show in 2023. “I can stop hiding now.”
That same year, Rihanna closed out the Karl Lagerfeld-themed Met Gala in an all-white Valentino gown and camellia-adorned hooded coat, later revealing her baby bump underneath.
Rihanna is widely credited with reshaping maternity style in celebrity fashion, from her sheer third-trimester skirt over a thong at Dior’s Fall-Winter 2022 show to the metallic fringe set by The Attico at a Fenty event. “When I found out I was pregnant, I thought, ‘There’s no way I’m going shopping in no maternity aisle,’” she told Vogue in 2022. “It’s too much fun to get dressed up.”
Her all-red Loewe ensemble — an unzipped flight suit, matching catsuit, and sculpted leather corset — worn during her Super Bowl halftime performance the following year quickly became an iconic pop culture moment.
Alli Rosenbloom contributed to this report.
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