Pregnancy,
so they say, is a magical time.
And, in a world where nothing happens
unless it happens on social media, that translates into nine months of
unmissable photo ops.
See Beyoncé’s Instagram feed, updated this weekend with images of the singer, about eight months pregnant with twins, at her “push party” (the same as a baby shower but with partners admitted).
Not for her the demure tent dress to skim the bump.
Beyoncé
wears a skirt made from west African wax prints fabric, a tie-dye
bikini, head wrap with flowers, cowrie shell necklace, an armful of
bangles and a henna tattoo on her naked belly.
The posts look closer to a
David Bailey portrait than the average mirror selfie.
While the 1990s saw bump chic emerge, with Demi Moore naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair
and All Saints’ Melanie Blatt’s bump-and-combats look, celebrity
pregnancy has recently had a behind-closed-doors policy.
Beyoncé and her
husband, Jay Z, shut off the part of the hospital where Blue Ivy was born in 2012. Then Kim Kardashian got pregnant in 2015, posted a naked selfie and – you know the drill by now – broke the internet.
Beyoncé responded earlier this year with a pregnant-with-twins announcement that saw her modelled on a modern Virgin Mary in her undies, with veil, beatific expression and flowers.
It was compared to Latin American funeraries, Flemish portraiture and work by French artists Pierre et Gilles.
It also garnered more than 11 million likes. She followed it with photoshoots of her underwater, and others of her wearing Gucci dresses, flower crowns and a “Preggers” T-shirt that promptly sold out.
While the 1990s saw bump chic emerge, with Demi Moore naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair
and All Saints’ Melanie Blatt’s bump-and-combats look, celebrity
pregnancy has recently had a behind-closed-doors policy.
Beyoncé and her
husband, Jay Z, shut off the part of the hospital where Blue Ivy was born in 2012. Then Kim Kardashian got pregnant in 2015, posted a naked selfie and – you know the drill by now – broke the internet.
Beyoncé responded earlier this year with a pregnant-with-twins announcement that saw her modelled on a modern Virgin Mary in her undies, with veil, beatific expression and flowers.
It was compared to Latin American funeraries,
Flemish portraiture and work by French artists Pierre et Gilles. It also garnered more than 11 million likes.
She followed it with photoshoots of her underwater, and others of her wearing Gucci dresses, flower crowns and a “Preggers” T-shirt that promptly sold out.
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