Rihanna and ASAP Rocky brought a surprise guest to the 2025 Met Gala: Baby No. 3

Count connected Rihanna to driblet large babe quality during a high-profile event.

The vocalist and Fenty Beauty mogul revealed astatine the 2025 Met Gala connected Monday that she is expecting her 3rd child. Sporting a custom-made Marc Jacobs suit, the vocalist cradled a babe bump arsenic she posed for photographers connected the steps of the gala’s reddish carpet. She was joined by her boyfriend, rapper ASAP Rocky, who was 1 of the co-chairs of the event.

Hours earlier the expansive reveal, the “Diamonds” and “Umbrella” hitmaker’s photographer, Miles Diggs, posted a photograph of the vocalist walking successful the rainy streets of New York successful a two-piece alloy bluish matching acceptable with her babe bump peeking retired astatine her midriff. “Chance of Showers,” Diggs captioned the photo, which Rihanna liked.

“It feels amazing, you know,” ASAP Rocky told CBS News, confirming the gestation connected the reddish carpet. “It’s clip that we amusement the radical what we was cooking up.” A typical for the vocalist did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for confirmation.

Rihanna, 37, and ASAP Rocky (real sanction Rakim Athelaston Mayers), 36, deed the Met Gala carpet astir 2 years aft welcoming their 2nd lad Riot successful August 2023. The Grammy-winning “Disturbia” vocalist famously revealed she was expecting her 2nd kid portion headlining the Super Bowl halftime amusement successful February 2023. The musicians, who began dating successful 2019, welcomed their archetypal son, RZA (named aft the Wu Tang Clan founding member), successful May 2022.

They were among the scores of entertainers, artists and entrepreneurs to fashionably descend connected the Metropolitan Museum of Art successful New York City. This year, the archetypal Monday of May celebrated the Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”

This year’s taxable takes inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.” In it, Miller explores however Black people, and Black men successful particular, person channeled flamboyant manner to navigate individuality and grow their possibilities successful different limiting environments done the civilization of dandyism. The grounds volition beryllium connected presumption astatine the Met from May 10 to Oct. 26.

Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour besides co-chaired Monday’s event. Lakers prima LeBron James served arsenic an honorary co-chair but did not be the yearly manner gathering owed to an injury.

Just earlier this year, Rihanna and ASAP Rocky presented a agreed beforehand successful a wholly antithetic environment: the Los Angeles courthouse wherever the second was connected proceedings connected charges of shooting his erstwhile person and ASAP Mob subordinate Terrell Ephron, a.k.a. ASAP Relli, successful 2021. ASAP Rocky was acquitted of 2 counts of assault. Rihanna attended respective days of the monthlong proceedings and brought the couple’s children to closing arguments.

Since becoming a mother, Rihanna has been vocal astir her tendency for a ample family. In a 2024 screen communicative for Interview magazine, the vocalist said starting a household “was the champion happening that ever happened to us.”

“When idiosyncratic sees you completely, and believes successful you, and thinks you’re worthy of being the parent of their kids, it’s a large feeling,” the Savage X Fenty brag said astatine the time. “I felt the aforesaid astir him. I knew helium would beryllium a large dad.”

Elsewhere successful the interview, Rihanna said she is unfastened to having arsenic galore kids arsenic “God wants maine to have.”

Times unit writer Karla Marie Sanford contributed to this report.