During her Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday, the “Lift Me Up” singer, 34, showed off her growing baby bump in a surprise pregnancy reveal.
Rihanna could also be seen caressing her stomach during the performance. The singer’s representative confirmed the pregnancy shortly after she ended her 13-minute set.
A$AP Rocky — whom she already shares a 9-month-old son with — proudly cheered from the sidelines in a video shared by the NFL on Twitter.
In the clip, he put on his flashlight during her performance of “Diamonds” before bopping back in forth as he listened to Rihanna’s music. The “Praise the Lord” rapper, 34, threw his hands in the air and clapped towards the end of the video.
“ASAP Rocky is everyone watching @Rihanna,” the NFL captioned the clip.
ASAP Rocky is everyone watching @Rihanna ???? #AppleMusicHalftime pic.twitter.com/pG6DWRL7ch
— NFL (@NFL) February 13, 2023
See more reactions to her glowing performance and surprise baby news.
Jennifer Hudson, Diplo, more celebrities react to Rihanna’s pregnancy announcement
Several celebrities including Jennifer Hudson, Tamar Braxton and Diplo took to Twitter to comment on Rihanna’s performance and big reveal.
“Super Bowl LVII did not disappoint ! What a great game ! So good to run into some of my favs tonight and so happy to witness it all — @thesherylralph, @babyface and @ChrisStapleton they did that ! And huge congrats to @rihanna !!! #SuperBowl,” Hudson tweeted.
“How the hell we finna watch the rest of this game?” Braxton wrote on Twitter. “Rihanna won the Super Bowl.”
How the hell we finna watch the rest of this game? ???? #Rihanna WON the SUPER BOWL ✨✨✨????????♂️????????♂️❤️????????♂️
— Tamar Estine✨ (@TamarBraxtonHer) February 13, 2023
“Came for @rihanna baby shower,” Diplo tweeted alongside a photo of himself at the Super Bowl.
Came for @rihanna baby shower pic.twitter.com/NT0DqfAclP
— diplo (@diplo) February 13, 2023
“Rihanna performed a whole half-time concert, partly balancing herself on some little platform thing flying over the stadium, and she is pregnant,”
wrote on Twitter. “I had to lay down for a full day after a Marc Anthony concert last week, where all I had to do was walk to my seat and clap.”
Damn. @rihanna performed a whole half-time concert, partly balancing herself on some little platform thing flying over the stadium, AND SHE IS PREGNANT.
I had to lay down for a full day after a @MarcAnthony concert last week, where all I had to do was walk to my seat and clap. pic.twitter.com/57fbHKydKq
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) February 13, 2023
“She did that half-time show while carrying a baby which is pretty damn impressive,” Piers Morgan tweeted. “Congrats Rihanna.”
“Rihanna is a mega star,” singer Jaye Cane wrote on Twitter. “No album in years and the songs still carry her.”
“I don’t wanna see no Rihanna slander on my timeline. And please stop comparing Beyonce’s pregnancy performances to Rihanna’s #Superbowl performance,” Danielle Pinnock tweeted alongside a video. “These women are icons! (Be clear, I am a honeycomb in the Beyhive too) But, respect must be paid. #FentyBowl had me living!!!”
“Elmo thinks you look great in red Ms. @Rihanna, just like Elmo!” the beloved Sesame Street character wrote on Twitter.
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