See, now in these photos, Beyonce looks very knocked up to me. Yes, there’s some swelling in her abdomen (not as much as the VMAs, but it’s there), but the biggest difference I see is in Beyonce’s boob size. You can always tell by the boobs. Anyway, these are even more photos of Beyonce promoting her new fragrance yesterday in NYC – we covered her sequiny photo call event yesterday too. As for the now infamous VMA bump-reveal, Beyonce tells Access Hollywood that she thought the “classiest” way to tell people that she was pregnant was “to just show it”. She doesn’t say, “to just stick a pillow on that junk and show off the padding.” But I think that’s what she meant.
A stunning and glowing Beyonce stepped out in New York on Wednesday to launch her new fragrance, Beyonce Pulse. Typically, the superstar artist is a very private person, but when Access Hollywood guest correspondent Jill Martin sat down with her, Beyonce opened up about her other big news (her pregnancy!) and how she came up with the idea to reveal her baby bump at the MTV Video Music Awards last month.
“You know, I dreamt it, actually,” Beyonce told Jill of the inspiration behind her pregnancy announcement. “There were so many rumors about me being pregnant every three months for the past couple of years — I thought the best way and classiest way was to just show it. And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good.”
Following Beyonce’s big reveal at the end of her VMAs performance, cameras cut to a shot of her husband, Jay-Z, in the audience along with Kanye West, as the two rappers jumped up and down and cheered in celebration. Although the proud, soon-to-be daddy’s enthusiasm was seen by millions, Beyonce said she missed the endearing moment.
“I couldn’t see that in real life, but I did see it on a bunch of TV specials,” the 30-year-old singer said. “You couldn’t escape it, so it was nice!”
As for motherhood, B said she feels she’s been preparing for this moment for years.
“I just feel like everything I’ve been through in my life is all for right now,” she told Jill. “So hopefully life will continue to get better, and I’ll continue to get stronger and be an incredible mother.”
Beyonce was solo at the launch party for her third fragrance, but both she and Jay-Z were very involved in creating Pulse.
“I wear it, I live with it for about six months, and we tweak,” she revealed, when asked about her creative process. “I make sure it’s long lasting. And I make sure I get my compliments from everyone — from my fans to my husband,” she added with a laugh.
[From Access Hollywood]
Ha, “tweak”. Yes, she’s been doing a lot of “tweaking” this year, to perfume, and to her face. Some pre-pregnancy tweaking, I guess. Anyway, as for Beyonce’s bump debut and whether or not it was “classy”… I wouldn’t describe it as classy, but then again, I don’t really think there is a “classy” way to announce to the world that you’re pregnant. If you’re a celebrity, and you want to keep everything very easy and non-controversial, I think the best way is to issue a simple statement and then debut your bump on some kind of red carpet situation. That’s the way I would do it if I was a celebrity.
As I’ve said before, I didn’t hate Beyonce’s bump debut – I thought it was very cute the way she showed it off on stage after she sang. It was a great moment, it was cheesy and sweet and joyful… and not “classy”. The whole padding the bump was a famewhore move though, in retrospect. She just did that to make a bigger impact on the biggest stage she could possibly get.
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
If I were famous I would just get bigger and bigger and bigger and never confirm it. Kind of like what Katherine Heigl did in “Knocked Up”. And when people ask, just don’t answer them!
That would be so awsome. The tabloids would explode from speculation and from not getting a confirmation.
Actually, with my second pregnancy, I hid it from my work until I was 5-6months! I wear a lab coat, so it was easy.
Nothing classy about showing off your bump at the MTV red carpet.
Nothing.
She could be giving birth to the 2nd coming of Jesus and even he’d be born, mature and say
“Mom what the he’ll was up with you popping me out like I was a stunt in your performance?”
Honestly why do celebs make ‘big’ announcements? Wear your clothing, let your body change and adjust, when people ask or start talking THEN you say in interview or via statement “Why yes I am pregnant”
The end.
Sweet mother of god, that outfit is horrendous. It looks like she wrapped a torn blanket around herself and put on a pair of stripper heels to complete the look. Very classy indeed, B.
@atlantiapug I was thinking the same thing. I’d just never say anything.. they’d all find out eventually.
I know she looks different because of her pregnancy but her face… Did she have something done?
I’m so happy for them,GOD bless then with a healthy baby.
@atlantapug, great minds, sister. With my first baby, I was waiting tables, so people thought I was just gaining weight…until the mens button down and apron couldn’t really hide it anymore. I didn’t tell anyone but super close friends and family about the second baby. I kind of take that as a blesing, because the baby wasn’t meant to be. This pregnancy, I told the world on the day the doctor confirmed it…at only 4 weeks, 2 days. I may have jumped the gun a little, but my husband and I have been trying for SO long to get pregnant!
Anyhoodles, unveiling your pregnancy like that isn’t classy, but neither is my announcing it on facebook (after making the important phone calls of course), so I can’t judge.
edit@Cherry-I was thinking the SAME thing. That outfit is horrendous.
Come on you guys, she didn’t pad the bump. She was just holding it with her hands, which emphasized it. And during the singing number, she was wearing a very tight waistband under the tuxedo, which emphasised it as well.
I never ever really told anybody about any of my pregnacies. I don’t know I am just not the type of person to announce it. I don’t bask in the attention. I even hate birthday parties thrown in my honour. Just the way I am. With my first I didn’t show till about 6 months along. Then- boom, big belly. Most people didn’t ask me either, just out if politeness I think.
Nobody paid me money to put my kids photos in mags! But I wish B the best. I guess her and Jay thought it would be easy to come out and not be hassled by the media. “is she or isn’t she?”.
I bet it’s a boy. Then again I never get it right!
Wasn’t she photographed in a bikini right after the awards and showed that she wasn’t padding her bump? Why would anyone pad a baby bump? It just seems crazy. She looks great.
Weird – first the ‘big reveal’ the VMA’s and ever since then she has been wearing clothes that really hide the bump. It is impossible to even tell that she is pregnant. I think this is a good argument for the prosthetic bump. And nothing says ‘klassy’ like an elegant prosthetic fetus bump.
Nothing says classy like revealing your pregnancy on an awards show. There is nothing classy about Beyonce or any of the horrendous clothes she wears. It’s all about attention.
i still have to stick to my theory: people who continually use the word “classy” are actually not very classy at all.
@atlantapug: Like what Isla Fisher did? Two kids and never one confirmation. Even when she was ready to pop.
I love this so much right now because we all know that Beyonce is all about keeping it “classy”. Damn, I hate that word. Just like velourazure says – if you use it, you don’t have it! Can’t we all say “elegant” or something instead?
At any rate, I am no celeb, but always hated the pregnancy “announcement”. I only told my close family with both my pregnancies and adoption and when I was 8 mos. pregnant with my second people would come up and say, “Oh, I didn’t know you were pregnant!” I liked that much, much better. It’s better to have the whole thing not so fussed over until the baby comes.
Beyonce so padded the bump.It was hard and oval and that is not what happens that early. How would she know? She never bothers looking around her. She is the center of her universe and now her baby will be. Not in a good way either. I would like stars to get a clue. Kids and babies are not something to exploit. Culture of narcissism is getting tiring.
@Marianne Isla Fisher got away with that because she’s not a huge star and most people confuse her with Amy Adams. big stars don’t get the privacy to keep a pregnancy secret till birth nor is celebs selling pics of their babies to magazines new Frank Sinatra did it in July 1940 with his oldest daughter Nancy those Photos cost 25k at the time the first stars to get multi millions for a baby picture of one of their kids were Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward in January 1966 with their youngest daughter Claire who’s first pic in Life Magazine was worth 3,000,000 at the time and both of them were over 35
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! Will people stop talking about padding the bump already.
Think about this: Performers on stage overdo everything. There is a reason for this–so that people all the way in the back row can see it. It is the reason why stage performers wear false eyelashes and heavy makeup. It’s for the benefit of the audience.
That being said, it would make perfect sense for Bey to pad a small bump to make it a bit bigger–so that even those people in the back row could see it. It’s really no big deal. It’s not like she said that she is 6 months pregnant when she’s really only 3 months. Give it a rest, people!
Good thing I read the comments before posting because I was going to say the exact same thing that @velourazure said.
This bish wouldnt know class if it came in 12pc original batter recipe with extra biscuits n gravy!!! Gtfoh!!
It was a desperate move for attention even Klassy Beyonce is not above that.
Why are her breasts getn bigger but her stomachs not??….her breasts r huge!! Breasts dont start producing milk till the lst trimester so why r her breast even thisbig if shes barely n2 her 2nd?? Can silicone produce colostrum n milk?? Hmmm well ill be……personally if shesa type of person who can pad a belly and ass **booty daipers** to abtain hr **cough** natural curves then i wouldnt put it past her to have her dresses pre padded!! Wy r ppl actn like its unthinkable of a human to go to such lengths of deception when so many men n women do it in real life all the time!!! Im still on team fake bump with a surrogate waitn in an enclosed gated home till birth then will disappear with pay in full and surprise the wonderful magical omnigrand beyonces body will be back to pre baby perfection just like that cuz shes just got it like that!! #sheeple
Stupid phone….that should be breast dont stat producing milk till 3rd trimester
@honeybunz, milk can come in whenever you body makes it. With my first pregnancy, mine came in at 20 weeks. Breasts swell when your pregnant. It’s an actual symptom. I’m barely 6 weeks preggo, and they’ve already swollen up out of my B cup. I’ve got double boob…it just happens. Everyone’s body is different. And yes, people with fake breasts can produce colostrum and breast milk.
edit: Jezi is correct. Real actual breast milk doesn’t come in until a few days after the baby is born.
@honeybunz First women’s breasts do increase in size. Some women actually can grow very large. I only grew one size above my original cup size but my sister in law grew 2 whole sizes and her breasts grew before her bump. Second, most women don’t produce milk at all during pregnancy. What they do produce is Colostrum, which is sort of like milk but it’s really the clear liquid which contains all the mother’s antibodies which protects the newborn baby and builds the baby’s immune system.
I was only 3 months when my belly grew. I actually looked like I was 5 months. That’s how big I was. So you can’t really say that a woman’s bump isn’t that big. Every woman carries differently.
Ok yes i understand that different women experience differently with pregnancy and even one woman can have different experiences with multiple pregnancies but all im saying is something is OFF with beyonces sudden pregnancy…she has been preventing herself from getting pregnant by her husband for 10yrs and u telln me weeks after her albm drops and days after announcing an 18month tour that workaholic beyonce stops taking bc and accidently risks getn preggo or even weirder intentionally plans 2 get pregnant?? With all she has going on musically?? NO! Bey is up 2 something real baby or not shes playing the public and im sitn back laughn at ppl giving their own personal baby experiences to defend this narcissitic liar!! Ppl taking this chick word like she wrote it in stone with the finger of God on mt sinai!! sorry bleachy im not that gullible!
She got another boob job nobody ever had boobs in Destiny’s child. She looks like scary spice:-o
…oh, honeybunz…she said she wanted a baby by the time she’s 30. Looking at more recent pictures of her, she’s obviously pregnant. Maybe instead of laughing at people, you should learn how to type to where people don’t have to squint and try to decipher what the heck your trying to explain….
@honeybunz I’m not at all familiar with Beyonce’s shenanigans…I don’t pay attention to her that much. I like some of her songs and some of her videos are entertaining. I don’t keep track of her famewhoring ways. However, I find the pregnancy padding conspiracy theories to be a bit strange. That’s all I’m saying.
@Kiki: Get outta my mind!!
I don’t see how rubbing your belly and grinning like you’ve just had a great Thanksgiving meal while on-stage at a show for something COMPLETELY unrelated to babies (MUSIC) is classy at all, but whatever–maybe that’s just me.
I don’t see why there is the notion that it “has” to be “announced” in any way. Why not just go about your business? If people notice, they’ll notice, and you can confirm or deny, but why do there always have to be these big “announcements”? The only people who will be directly affected by the announcement are the couple’s family members and closest friends. That’s all that should matter. To announce to more seems trashy to me.
@Courtney: Hunny, please use more periods and punctuation. Your posts are kind of hard to read without them.
P.S. I will totally understand if English isn’t your first language.
@samigirl spoken like a true beyophomet stan! Ill humor u tho…so she said she wants a baby by 30 and yea has always said that….really…i just find it suspiciously on the heels of a just released failing album….and how many women realistically plan and actually do get pregnant perfectly within a specific time frame?? She JUST turned 30 I know of none **who have said it out loud** its more easily to get pregnant by accident than planned on a Specific age or date! But beyonce is god right so her prophcies are always fulfilled!! **sideeye** 4 everyone if u dont know what beyonce has done or is capable of i encourage u to find out….thats why shes been feedn on the public so long because most are totally unaware of her and jayz as someones said “shenanigans” but 2 each his own u either follow or u lead…..those who have ears should listen! These celebs flourish becaue for whatever reason we common folk think because there on tv and award shows and cd covers and billborads that they are above anything wrong…these ppl bleed fart and die just like we do! Ppl are idolizing as in idolatry these celebs and dont even know it or think they arent…im not trying to tell n e one what 2 do i spoke my opinion and suggestions as u speak yours will continue to do so….
@honeybunz…it literally took me 10 minutes to decipher what you wrote. If you’re going to direct your comments at me, at least use correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. Regardless, I am not a “beyophomet stan”…I’m not even sure what that says/is. I don’t own a Destiny’s Child/Beyonce’ album. Never bought one. Same goes for Jay Z. I really am Switzerland when it comes to both of them. I read every article on celebitchy regardless of if it’s a celebrity I like or not. Now, while you’re correct on it being really easy to have oops babies (mine is named Emerson), it’s also possible to plan them too. It only takes 1 time to get pregnant, after all. I wanted to get pregnant again before I was 26, and bam…25 and knocked up. Planning is very easy and very possible, if one is lucky enough to have both parties fertile/healthy/etc. Beyonce’ and Jay Z have unlimted resources to ensure that this pregnancy happened. However, Bey and Jay will have the last laugh while they are holding a sweet little baby, and you’re still proclaiming she’s a big phony.
Please bouncy STFU – not to be redundant, but doesn’t she have a cd out – that piece a crap must really be tanking that she’s talking this preggo like she’s the only female that wonder of wonder this has happened to; has anyone seen any recent interviews where any questions were asked about this cd, or is it treated like it doesn’t even exist.
@honeybunz I’m with Samigirl, I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t really fawn over celebrities at all. If I like their movies, tv shows, music and or whatever else, I like it. That has nothing to do with me wanting to lick their feet. I could care less about Beyonce and Jay Z. I just think accusing people of stuffing their bellies is a bit ridic. Again, that’s my opinion. You may want to take a Xanax and breathe a bit…sheesh!
@4real-Thank you for clearing that up. My head was spinning. So, when you say “word,” you’re agreeing with huneybunz, correct? So, do you know what she’s talking about when she says: “4 everyone if u dont know what beyonce has done or is capable of i encourage u to find out….thats why shes been feedn on the public so long because most are totally unaware of her and jayz as someones said ‘shenanigans’?” I, for one, AM unaware as to what these shenanigans are. I’ve seen Bey show up to a school in Harlem and surprise kids by dancing with them. I know that’s not the only time she’s done that too. I also have read (of course, that could be false), that they quietly give tons of money to charities for the inner city schools. I just don’t know what they’ve done that’s so awful to receive such hatred. This isn’t be trying to be ugly, I really am curious.
I do think she got pregnant to move the storyline along and try to get some sympathy sales.
Yes, it’s cynical but she’s been so annoying and overexposed to R&B fans for awhile yet in everyone’s face telling the world she’s working on becoming a “legend” (please, stealing legend’s moments and tunes doesn’t get you the prize yet).
Working her pregnancy on so many carpets and on stage is calculated. This is the woman who hid her relationship to most famous rapper for years until she wanted it to be out.
So she could have a private pregnancy but has opted for a public, stunt filled one with “fashion moments” featuring her mom’s line from home shopping and performances scheduled for maximum sales of her new CD.
Classy! Lol
Honestly i dont man ay disrespect t anyone that may deem what i said that way….i just dont like voicing my opinion and ppl attacking me or bringing up non relevant things like spelling just ecause the dont like what i said….ifu dont agree bypass my comment or if you must address me come correct…everyone has a right to like/dislike spport or not support wahtever and whoever they choose…theres comments i dont agree with on posts all the time but i dont personally respond to the poster and whine about there punctuation there pronunciation or talk defensively smartass to them because there view is not in accord with mine….noone should feel like they cant come to a post unless they kiss someones ass celeb or otherwise!! #sheesh and if u struggled ten minutes u spent 9 minutes more than u should have but thanks 4 your time hun!!! :-*
I wouldnt use the word classy but rather the word egotistical to announce it the way she did.
Honeybunz – im w you. The spelling police is silly.
I doubt she padded anything. This is getting ridiculous. Her bump was TINY on the red carpet. The only reason it was visible was because she framed it with her hands. It looked larger on stage because her thick white shirt and pants added to it. She’s Beyonce for heaven’s sake, bitch doesn’t need to do much of anything to grab headlines. And you shouldn’t compare her to what someone else might look like during that stage of pregnancy. It would be ignorant to think that all women look the same during every stage of pregnancy. People are getting crazy with speculation nowadays. Lesson the paranoia, please.
@Jezi
I’m not exactly on the Beyonce fake belly bump bandwagon but I know enough about celebrity hype that I wouldn’t be surprised if it was fake or she purposely picked clothes that would emphasize her bump to get attention on the red carpet.
@honeybunz
You have to consider where you’re posting. Not everyone understands or has ever seen rhymes with snitch or crunk and disorderly blog type comment speak. Not too many people outside of that realm can understand what you’re trying to say which would explain the responses you received.
@cherry -LOL … The Knowles family are a very calculated family. Solange got knocked at 17 and her manager father Mathew made her get married right away.
Frankly, I’m a little disturbed not just by the speculation to HOW preggo Bey is but that people actually are judging her based on the size and shape of her baby bump..? Tha. Eff? seriously? that sounds soooo ignorant it’s almost embarrassing. That’s like saying ” Black doesn’t look like that, you’re too light to be black” to a light skinned person. Dumb, dumb, dumb. As for how she announced it, like her or hate her you know she can’t win. If she’d announced it with a statement there’d be a whole other faction saying some other ish about the wording of her statement. Sad, considering a pregnancy announcement is usually one of the most joyful ones a woman can make and therefore should be done to her liking. I remember well when she was rumored to be pregnant in late Spring and her mother strongly denied it, as did Beyonce. They even came on The View and talked about it. Now I think that either she was already pregnant or they were actively trying and didn’t want to jinx it since it was early. I thought she glowed at that time and now I know why. She’s a celebrity who I don’t know and don’t really follow so she doesn’t inspire jealousy, anger or hatred like she does in some folks…who ALSO don’t know her. It’s not that serious to worth so much analysis.
Well, tell us how you really feel!
@HONEYBUNZ
Girl “mainstream” media doesn’t give a f about Beyaphomet. They don’t regulate urban blogs and could care less about black celebrities that aren’t mainstream like Halle or Alicia. Clown B. would love to think white folk are checkin for her but our community knows they are not.
What she did at the awards show was her way of basically trying to recoup from that 4loptastic piece of a non classic album.
Yodel and Camel do nothing without an agenda. She does not care about the youth in or out of the black community. She is a puppet just like Gaga, Perry, and RiRi. Home girl is bowing down to Baphomet in 1+!, swaggejacking dead as nails French dude’s weird ass unfinished films, and stealing people’s images and songs left and right.
Beyonce may be pregnant but the way she announced it, when she claims to be so private, had me rolling my eyes (and it was ignorant in light of Brit Brit and Amy being honoured) Then my eye started twitching when a few days later Jay’s alleged mistress tuned up dead (allegedly from a brain aneurysm) not even our top notch black blogs were really trying to talk about it.
She is a devil worshiping liar and thief and I am so glad for once that white folk don’t give a shit about her, because seriously, she is a disgrace to women and our race with her skin bleaching, wannabe Euro self.
Sorry. Been holding that in for a minute.
Everyone’s pregnancy is different. My boobs did all their growing immediately, and my stomach changed thruout the day… your digestive system slows down so my stomach was always bigger as the day went on. But anyway, who cares if she padded her bump or not…her job is to entertain and perform. Why is it a big deal?
I really can’t wait until she gives birth, so I can stop hearing about her pregnant at 12 weeks. I hope and pray she has a healthy baby but I’m am officially over her and her damn pregnancy. I refuse to comment on any more of her threads at this time!
It’s just funny how she and Jay are so private, never wanting to talk about their marriage, stop holding hands immediately once they’re spotted by paparazzi. Yet her album is isn’t doing as well in Beyonce standards so she shows up cupping her belly and then rubbing it on stage. Now would she really do that if her album was selling as well as Adele’s? I really doubt that but desperate times call for desperate measures. I imagine that is why people are over it already because they see through the calculation . Poster up above Kim said it best it was a very “Egotistical” way of announcing it.
@bopa and victoria oh…i didnt realize that….yea i 4got where i was at…its just like victoria said our community knows bey 4 what she portrays and what she actually shows….i thought everyone knew what beyonce was about specially with her being besties with goop in her mind mainstream adores her…but i see hat yall saying cause if i went to a black blog and said goop weknow its gwyneth but there theyd be like whats goop whos goop so i will take that in consideration thanks! And vic im lmao @ your whole comment!! Its the truth! And cosign @alejandro glad ppl are seeing that too!!