Rihanna says Super Bowl pregnancy reveal was unplanned

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Rihanna has revealed that her surprise pregnancy reveal at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was not planned in a new interview.

The singer was in Los Angeles for the launch party of her new Fenty x Puma Creeper Phatty sneaker, when she spoke to Access Hollywood about her performance at the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show and motherhood.When asked about revealing her pregnancy during the performance, she admitted that she did not intend to do so. “Here’s the thing,” she said, sheepishly. “I did what I had to do, right?

My jumper couldn’t zip up! No one knew I was pregnant, I just told myself, ‘Just make sure it’s stretchy.’”She continued: “So the underarm, it was stretchy, and [the bottom of the jumper] was baggy, but you know, the zip!

It just stopped right there! So it had to be what it had to be.”Watch the interview with Rihanna below:Rihanna also reflected on her Super Bowl performance, calling it an “out-of-body experience”: “I feel like every rehearsal was the Super Bowl, and at the Super Bowl it was like, ‘What’s happening?’” She also gave credit to her production team, whose work earned her Super Bowl performance a Primetime Emmy nomination this year.Elsewhere in the interview, she opened up about her relationship with A$AP Rocky, expressing that she gained a new admiration for her “best friend” as a romantic partner. “I loved him differently as a dad,” she said. “This is major, major like– it’s a turn on.