![]() (Incidentally, they are yet to publicly share their son’s name. They spent the post-birth weeks in California before Rocky had to fly out to Europe on tour, where Rihanna and son later joined him. “No doctors, no nurses, we’re just… going home?”Īh, the levelling fate of new parents. Because you’re like: they trusted us to come home with this baby? This new life? With us?” She starts laughing. “You’re just going through the motions,” she continues, “and even then you’re so paranoid. And oh, my gosh, those first days are insane. You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three. “Essentially, from one person I became two. “I cannot believe it,” she says, still floored by the experience. Was the birth all right? “It was beautiful,” she says, adding sagely that she felt “blessed” for that. ![]() “You literally try to remember it – and there are photos of my life before – but the feeling, the desires, the things that you enjoy, everything, you just don’t identify with it because you don’t even allow yourself mentally to get that far, because…” she thinks for a moment. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever,” she continues. “Oh, my God, it’s legendary,” she says of her roller-coaster first months as a mother. She has a sip of coffee and launches straight in. The “world begone” intimacy of the wee hours? This is precisely how she likes it. For all her unconventional timekeeping, a lovely thing about Rihanna – the thing, in fact, that makes her schedule so hair-raisingly elastic – is that when she is with you, she is with you. “I just freshened up and ran down here,” she says, smiling, effortlessly chatty, snuggling into her seat. Yet for all this activity, in her first in-depth interview since becoming a parent, I would say her energy belongs more to the sofa than the spotlight. ![]() Aside from that appearance, a smattering of social media posts, the release of two new songs that bookended the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack at the end of the year (“Lift Me Up” is up for best original song at the Oscars next month), Rihanna has been minding her beauty empire as well as readying herself for the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show. As ever, rumours percolate about an eventual tour and, yes, a ninth studio album. Oh, and she quietly got pregnant again. Cocooned with Rocky, baby and their families, on vintage form she likened the postpartum emotional rewire to “tripping on acid” when interviewed at a Savage X Fenty lingerie show in New York last autumn. Since she gave birth to a baby boy last May, the 35-year-old Barbadian musician and entrepreneur has been about as off-grid as she gets – perhaps the most off-grid since she became a star in her mid-teens. It seems that, in the last few months, Rihanna’s life has turned so fully on its head that a great hair moment now has the unique allure of forgotten pleasure. In the run-up to a Riri rendezvous, minutes become hours, days become nights, Monday becomes Thursday, and soon reality loosens its grip and you sigh and think, Oh, well. As a charming driver called Myron waves hello and pulls us out on to the eerily empty streets of West Hollywood, gliding towards Beverly Hills in the dead of night, it is with an ease that suggests this is all very normal and time really is just a construct. Yet the nine-time Grammy Award-winning, Super Bowl-slaying beauty billionaire and current Oscar nominee has done just that. ![]() It takes a certain sort of hutzpah, a certain level of shimmering enormity, to establish your own time zone. So classy! Though I should perhaps mention that when the tank-sized Cadillac arrives, its luxurious blacked-out interior thrillingly haunted by the vestiges of her sweet, earthy perfume, it is… Now, let me check my texts to make sure I’m getting this right. One of the many surprising elements of interviewing Rihanna is that when she is finally ready to meet she sends her driver across Los Angeles to pick me up. ![]()
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