Rihanna’s Pregnancy Looks Are a Gift to Us All

When Rihanna revealed during her February Super Bowl performance that she’s having her second baby with A$AP Rocky, she did so wearing a candy apple red jumpsuit, molded bustier, and more than $1 million in diamonds. It was a sign of several things: Namely, that we’re not getting a new album anytime soon, but also that, in lieu of new bangers, she was going to bless us with even more incredible maternity looks.

I would very much like that album, and I deeply desire photos of her carrying a glass of red wine on the sidewalk, swigging from a flask at an awards ceremony, or smoking a blunt on Instagram Live. But if I can’t have any of those things for the foreseeable future, I will absofuckinglutely revel in the pregnancy fashion we’ve already been gifted and the future looks that await.

Rihanna worked it all the way through her first pregnancy with bump-forward looks: lots of bare belly, body chains, sheer fabrics, and bodycon dresses. She’s giving us even more sex appeal and whimsy this time, sometimes with her adorable son in tow!

What follows isn’t even close to the entirety of her incredible second-pregnancy lookbook, just the ones we have the rights to publish. The Instagram account @rihannastyleguide has them all, including the sequin bra and skirt she wore to Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Oscars after party. So consider this a mere sampling.

This press conference was three days before the Super Bowl, and in hindsight it’s clear that she’s covering her bump with that luxe leather jacket, but you know she’d wear this exact look tomorrow, complete with the lace-up heels.

Rih amped up her monochrome Super Bowl look with diamonds galore and a red-hot molded bustier. And for the finale, she added a gigantic puffer coat.

She wore a semi-sheer, bondage-inspired Alaïa gown on the Oscars red carpet, complete with hip slits. Mother??

For her performance of “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Rih changed into a the most beautiful going-out top I’ve ever seen, plus opera length leather gloves and brocade trousers.

Following her performance, she changed into this mint green stole and satin skirt with matching gloves and strappy heels. It’s Old Hollywood glamour meets hottest bitch alive. Side note: Look at Rocky looking at her :’) And, again, this wasn’t even her final outfit of the night! She wore sequin bra and skirt and voluminous hot pink coat to the after party.

Here’s a fun look from Los Angeles where it appears her rugby shirt is tucked under her bra. Unclear if it’s because the shirt doesn’t fit over her belly or she just wants to flaunt her bump—I don’t care either way! And this is proof she isn’t always in heels.

Well I’m obsessed with the sheer bodysuit and skirt-pant combo that she hiked up over her bump. And this color plus a fur coat reminds me of her YSL heart-shaped coat which she revived during her first pregnancy.

Another wide-leg jean and Timberlands look, but this time, she’s in New York, so she added a fur coat and a Yankees hat. This is what she wore on Target run with her niece! She has the top jeans button undone, and that part is at least very relatable.

Look, some people will hate this, but I am not those people. Rihanna is going to voice Smurfette in the forthcoming The Smurfs Movie, and she showed up to CinemaCon in April wearing “more denim than Britney Spears and Justin Timblerlake combined,” per Fashionista. I respect Rih for wearing a giant stonewashed smock and joots if she wants to.

The 2023 Met Gala is an homage to Karl Lagerfeld, the, uh, controversial former creative director of Chanel, and Rihanna signaled her attendance by dressing like a sexy ostrich the weekend before the event. Her jacket and logo sunglasses are from Chanel’s Fall/Winter 1994 collection, designed by Lagerfeld himself. This seems to suggest she’ll be appearing on the red carpet, the place where she and Rocky made their debut in 2021. (She didn’t attend last year, as the Gala was within weeks of her giving birth.)

Rihanna was the last person to arrive on the red carpet and she was a gigantic camellia, Coco Chanel’s signature flower. Importantly, her sunglasses had eyelashes. She shrugged off the flower cocoon to reveal a plunging white gown and a reported $25 million in Cartier jewels. (She disguised the underpinnings of this look with a big fur coat when leaving her hotel and presumably put on the petals and train in the van on the way there.) In total, there were no fewer than three bumps at the event as Serena Williams and Karlie Kloss used fashion’s biggest night to reveal their second pregnancies.

Rihanna kept her white hot theme going for the Met Gala afterparty with a cropped jacket and maxi skirt unbuttoned up to there.

This fur and leather look is giving Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. and the goggle-like sunglasses take it into a Mad Max territory. She finished the look with what appear to be the same lace-up heels she wore during her Super Bowl press day.

A very pregnant Rih wearing a giant shirt that says “use a condom?” Camp.

First her Smurfs Movie appearance, now Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton menswear show. Rihanna wore a denim boilersuit in a pixelated camo print with a matching bra, plus a bespoke diamond watch as a choker.

After the show, she pulled off the sleeves and tied them around her waist to go full bump out.

According to the indispensable @rihannastyleguide, Rihanna wore a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier fishnet dress from 2001—with a sequin “microkini” underneath—to see Rocky perform at Cannes Lions. (Also, the photo below is so sweet, I’m going to perish. There are more here.)