Rihanna Covers 'Vogue': Talks Motherhood, Pregnancy and A$AP Rocky Romance

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Rihanna chose the most fabulous plus one to join her on 's May cover: her unborn child. As the 34-year-old singer bares her growing baby bump for the magazine, she opens up about her friends-to-lovers romance with rapper A$AP Rocky, becoming a mother on her own terms and why she's determined to redefine what people view as «pregnancy style.»The FENTY Beauty founder admits that her romantic relationship with Rocky was slow-going at first because «people don’t get out of the friend zone very easily with me.» «And I certainly took a while to get over how much I know him and how much he knows me because we also know how much trouble we can land each other in,» she tells , revealing that a moment during their first encounter at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2012 was a prime example of what kind of trouble they get into.

The singer recalls when Rocky joined her for the performance of her hit single, «Cockiness,» and grabbed her butt as they were dancing side by side. «That was not part of the rehearsal!

I was like, 'What are you doing!?'» she says, admitting that her team was braced to deal with her anger after the incident but instead, she let it go. «My manager was like, 'Oh, God, she must like this guy a little bit.

She never lets this s**t slide.'»The singer says that although the two had begun dating before COVID-19 struck, it was only during the pandemic's lockdown that they became truly serious. «He became my family in that time,» she shares, describing an «epic road trip» they took in the summer of 2020 from Los Angeles to New York.