Rihanna has revealed that she and her partner, A$AP Rocky, opted not to get a nanny for their son after he was born.
The 34-year-old singer reflected on welcoming her nine-month old, who was born in May 2022, during a recent interview with British Vogue, which starred her and her family on the cover of the magazine’s latest issue.
During the conversation, she spoke about the day she gave birth to her baby, and revealed that when she brought him home, she hadn’t hired a nanny to help look after him.
“We came home, cold turkey, had no one,” Rihanna recalled. “It was just us as parents and our baby. Man, you’re a zombie for the most part.” She also spoke candidly about giving birth and how it was a “beautiful” experience that she felt “blessed” to have. However, the “Umbrella” singer also revealed why she felt like a “head-f***” after.
“Essentially, from one person I became two. You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three,” she said. “It’s nuts. And oh, my gosh, those first days are insane. You don’t sleep. At all. Not even if you wanted to.”
She also explained that she was “going through the motions” when she left the hospital with her newborn and felt “so paranoid”.
“Because you’re like: they trusted us to come home with this baby? This new life? With us?” Rihanna added. “No doctors, no nurses, we’re just… going home?”
She continued, “You’re just going through the motions, and even then you’re so paranoid. Because you’re like: they trusted us to come home with this baby? This new life? With us? No doctors, no nurses, we’re just… going home?”
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky began dating in early 2020 before taking their relationship public later that year. The two started off as friends, and the Barbadian singer has even admitted she kept the “Praise the Lord” rapper in the “friend zone” for years prior to them dating.
Now as first-time parents, Rihanna admitted that their dynamic has slightly shifted.
“We’re best friends with a baby,” she told the outlet. “We have to be on the same page, but we’ve always kind of had that in our relationship. Everything changes when you have a baby but I wouldn’t say it’s done anything but made us closer.”
The father and son have also sparked up their own special relationship, Rihanna revealed.
“I’m just sitting on the sidelines when they’re together,” she said. “I’m literally the girl trying to get into the boys club, waiting for my turn. He is obsessed with his father. And I’m like: ‘Didn’t I give birth to you? What is going on?’ Their connection is undeniable. The second Rocky makes eye contact with him he is on fire. The whole thing they say about sons and moms, it’s a myth. Sons and fathers is crazy. I realised that the validation that you really need as a boy is from your father.”
