Nearly a year after becoming a first-time mom, Rihanna is opening up about what her experience has been like. In a new interview with British Vogue, Rihanna shared how she felt after her son was born, rehashing those postpartum feelings that will sound very familiar to fellow parents out there.
Rihanna's baby boy joined her for the magazine shoot.
Even though the Super Bowl performer has kept her son off of social media so far (minus that one adorable TikTok video), she did let him be the center of attention in this Vogue shoot.
We can't get over how cute he is — or how much he already looks like his mama.
She opened up about her postpartum feelings in the interview.
Like many moms, Rihanna felt overwhelmed — in fact, she called those first few days 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," she said. "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."
Leaving the hospital made her a bit 'paranoid.'
"Because you’re like: they trusted us to come home with this baby? This new life? With us? No doctors, no nurses, we’re just … going home?"
So many new parents have felt that level of panic, being trusted with a newborn without any help for the first time — but just like everyone else, Rihanna did figure it out.
She also shared how protective she's become of her little one.
Rihanna has gone into total mama bear mode, especially when the paparazzi are involved.
"Throw me to the wolves. Do what you want with me. But he doesn’t have a say in any of this," she said. "We’ve been protecting him thus far and you don’t have any consent to be posting photos or selling photos of my child, a minor. Get the h— out of here with that."
Now, it seems like Rihanna is really settling into motherhood.
And that has only meant good things for her relationship with boyfriend A$AP Rocky.
"We’re best friends with a baby," she said. "We have to be on the same page, but we’ve always kind of had that in our relationship. Everything changes when you have a baby but I wouldn’t say it’s done anything but made us closer."
And now with their family about to get bigger later this year, it appears things will only get better from here.
