Rihanna gets real about the first few days of motherhood: 'It's nuts'
By Naomi White|
R?ihanna has opened up about the wild ride that is welcoming a new baby.
The singer, 34, shared how she was hit by the same shock almost every new parent experiences when they first bring their baby home: how am I being trusted to care for this tiny being?
Speaking with British Vogue, Rihanna, who this week announced she is pregnant with her second child in the most spectacular of ways จC by debuting her baby bump during her Superbowl performance จC opened up about her son's birth and the weeks that followed.
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?Describing motherhood as "everything", Rihanna said she no longer identified with her life before she and partner A$AP Rocky welcomed their now nine-month-old (whose name they are yet to publicly release) last May.
But although she describes her birth as "beautiful", what followed, she said, was a "head-f--k". ?
"Essentially, from one person I became two. You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three. It's nuts. And oh, my gosh, those first days are insane. You don't sleep. At all. Not even if you wanted to. We came home, cold turkey, had no one. It was just us as parents and our baby. Man, you're a zombie for the most part," she recalled.
"You're just going through the motions. And even then you're so paranoid. Because you're like: 'They trusted us to come home with this baby? This new life? With us?'," she continued. "No doctors, no nurses, we're justกญ going home?"
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But the new mum said it had been an incredible experience getting to see her son develop, even if it had meant a huge lifestyle adjustment. ?
"You are joyful when you get the time to shower. You know," she said. "I remember in the beginning I used to roll his bassinet into the bathroom and be showering and like wiping the fog off [the glass] just to peep at him."
New details have also emerged about the lengths the star went to hide her second pregnancy before Monday's big reveal. According to ELLE, the Superbowl's half-time show producer Jesse Collins said rehearsals were to a low-key locations, and most of the crew were kept in the dark until the performance.
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"We had to rehearse way out in the sticks of [Los Angeles] and Santa Clarita to keep it all secretive," Collins said. "It was a lot of work. And then, how do you keep the secret that she's pregnant? I mean, that's hard too... Honestly, as soon as it [the performance was] done I'm like, 'Woo, let's get her back down.' That's all I want to do is get her back on the ground... It was a lot of prep, a lot of nerves and [I am] just really happy to be a part of it."?
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