Nicki Minaj congratulated Rihanna on her “new bundle of joy” and for killing it during her halftime show for Super Bowl LVII in a comment on Instagram. Minaj was responding to Rihanna’s post labeling her baby “fine,” for which she received backlash from fans.
“My son so fine! Idc idc idc! How crazy both of my babies were in these photos and mommy had no clue. thank you so much @edward_enninful and @inezandvinoodh for celebrating us as a family!” Rihanna captioned the photo of herself with her song. Minaj commented in response: “a lil pretty boy already. Congratulations on the new bundle of joy, Queen. Bodied Super Bowl.”
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Rihanna reflected on the birth of her son during an interview with British Vogue after her Super Bowl performance. She gave birth to the child back in May 2022. “Man, you’re a zombie for the most part,” she said of the first few months. “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?” Despite the worries, Rihanna says that she and A$AP Rocky didn’t opt to hire a nanny. Instead, they handled all of the parenting duties themselves.
She added: “It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever. 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…. Because it doesn’t matter.”
Minaj welcomed her own son, who she refers to publically as “Papa Bear,” in September 2020. Minaj has been married to Kenneth Petty since 2019. Similar to Rihanna, Minaj spoke about feeling more anxious when she first gave birth to Papa Bear. “I hate that I have more anxiety now because you’re like, ‘What if the one time I leave my child, I get that phone call?” she told E! News at the time. “I think moms feel like they have to be perfect.”
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