Proud Mom! Everything Rihanna Has Said About Motherhood ​as She Expects Baby No. 2

Cherishing Small Moments

In November 2022, Rihanna gushed about enjoying the small moments with her son during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “Oh, my God, [in] the mornings, like, seeing his morning face!” she said at the time. “Seeing a baby with, like, little bags and waking up and they’re just, like, startled. They’re trying to figure out where they’re at. It’s the cutest. It’s my favorite part of the day. … He’s amazing. He’s a happy baby.”

Her ‘Crazy’ Experience

The Fenty Beauty founder admitted that her motherhood journey was “wild” during a November 2022 interview with Extra. “It is crazy. It is amazing. … It’s weird. It’s all of those things, all at once,” she said. “The best feeling, the best. The most love I’ve ever known. I can’t describe it. It’s new. It’s fascinating. Every step, every facial expression, every new milestone. I love it.”

Rihanna added that motherhood has made her more patient. “I thought I was getting better at patience, but this will sit you down. You are forced to be patient as a mom, as a parent, just in general,” she told the outlet. “Your tolerance level goes down, but your patience goes up, if that makes any sense.”

Valuing Privacy

Rihanna reflected on why she and Rocky have kept their son’s life private, including why they haven’t shared many photos or revealed the baby’s name. “We just didn’t get around to it yet, really,” she told the Washington Post in November 2022. “We’ve just been living. But I guess there’s a certain freedom that comes with kind of just like getting it out there.”

The ‘Fun’ Times

The “Stay” singer said that having a newborn was “fun” during an interview with British Vogue in November 2022. “No matter what you’re doing or what you’re feeling, when he smiles at you, everything else goes away,” she added.

‘Everything Matters Now’

“I’m living for my son. Everything matters now. You really start to take a lot into account,” she said while appeared on the “Process with Nate Burleson” podcast in February 2023. “Skydiving?! You really think about stuff like that — it’s not worth it. Everything is different, life before my son seems very obscure. It’s very small and cloudy, it just got better with him. It’s so much hard work but nothing is more fulfilling than that.”

Making a Difference

Rihanna continued to speak about motherhood during a press conference about her decision to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show in February 2023. “When you become a mom, there’s something that just happens where you feel like you can take on the world and do anything,” she said. “The Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world. As scary as that was, because I haven’t been on stage in seven years, there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all.”

“It’s important for me to do this, this year,” the “Diamonds” singer added. “It’s important for representation, it’s important for my son to see that.”

Mom Time

In her immensely glamorous cover interview for British Vogue in March 2023, Rihanna opened up about her son’s sleep schedule and how she makes a little bit of time for herself.

“Oh, he sleeps through the night now,” she said. “You know I don’t. Look at us right now. No, I’m up. I’m like, ‘OK, time to watch some Housewives.’ These are my hours.”

Reflective Mama

In that same interview with British Vogue, Rihanna revealed what it was really like welcoming her son, sharing how much of a “head-f**k” is was for her to leave the hospital with another human being.

“I cannot believe it,” she said of the experience. “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. 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.”

She continued, “You’re just going through the motions, and even then you’re so 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?”

Morning Moments

British Vogue really got Rihanna in a reflective mood, because she went on to share how special her mornings are as a mom.

“I remember in the beginning I used to roll his bassinet into the bathroom and be showering and like wiping the fog off [the glass] just to peep at him,” the singer said of her young son. “Those were always my favorite, his little wake-up face, seeing his face change, seeing his color come in, just all of these changes.”