Rihanna graced the red carpet of the 95th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, wearing a black sheer dress that showed off her growing baby bump. The singer is set to perform her ballad, Lift Me Up, from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
“Lift Me Up,” which Rihanna co-wrote, was nominated for Best Original Song and serves as a tribute to the late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, ho died of colon cancer at age 43 in August 2020.
In a post earlier in the week, Rihanna teased her attendance at the Oscars, sharing a photo of her son’s reaction to the news. “My son when he found out his sibling is going to the Oscars and not him,” she wrote in the caption. “Swipe for tb of my fat man.”
This year’s Super Bowl halftime show was the stage where Rihanna revealed she was pregnant with her second child. Now, baby number two has had the chance to be a “special guest” at both the Super Bowl and the Oscars before even being born.
In February, Rihanna shared a photo of her firstborn, whose name has not yet been made public. The child was born in May 2022.
In a previous interview with British Vogue, Rihanna shared that she always thought she would get married before having a baby.
She said, “Who the f–k says it has to be that way? I’m certainly not gonna let that get in the way of me being a mom. They’re going to teach me more than I could ever teach them. And I want them to go for it. I want to see who they are in the world, who they become. Because I’m just here to keep them on the rails — a passenger as much as the driver.”
Rihanna and boyfriend A$ap Rocky are expecting their second child in coming months.
