Never one to shy away from a vey public baby announcement, Rihanna did not disappoint when she revealed she is set to become a mum for a third time.
Superstar Rihanna announced her third pregnancy by showing off her baby bump on a star-studded Met Gala blue carpet.
The pop icon and make-up mogul, who previously revealed her second pregnancy during the 2023 Super Bowl half-time show, was seen rushing into a New York hotel hours before the gala, while her partner A$AP Rocky made his entrance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The couple, who already share two children, added another headline moment when Rocky, also a 2025 Met Gala co-chair, arrived holding a diamond-studded umbrella and wearing a custom look by AWGE, his own creative agency.
“It feels amazing, you know. It’s time that we show the people what we was cooking up,” he said.
“And I’m glad everybody’s happy for us ’cause we definitely happy.”
But what do we know about the parents and how they got together?
Let’s take a look at their relationship timeline below.
2012 - Friends first
The pair have admitted they were friends before they became a couple, and we witnessed in public more than a decade ago.
Rocky was featured in a remix of Rihanna's single "Cockiness (Love It)," a song about the singer's sexual dominance over her partner.
They then continued to work together, with the rapper joining Rihanna on one part of her world tour in 2013.
He joined the North American leg of the Diamonds tour, performing as her opening act.
2018 - Rumours start to swirl
The pair have a rare public appearance, showing their friendship is still going strong.
They appeared together, sitting together front row at the Louis Vuitton show at Paris Fashion Week, which started the rumour mill going as to whether they were officially an item.
But known for being private about their home lives, neither of them comment on the issue publicly and at the time, Rihanna was still with her then-partner Hassan Jameel.
Later that same year Rocky went along to a charity event organised by Rihanna.
Known as the Diamond Ball, it is a fashion and charitable event, which supports the Clara Lionel Foundation, the organisation Rihanna founded to support educational programmes for young people around the world.
2019 - Fendy fashion
Another day, another fashion event.
The pair walked the red carpet together at the British Fashion Awards in London in September of that year. Rihanna wore a mint-green dress by her fashion brand, Fenty, while Rocky wore a black Fendy suit.
2020 - Rhianna is single and they become an item
Rihanna split from boyfriend of three years Hassan Jameel, which put the ASAP rumour mill back into overdrive.
A source told The Sun at the time that the pair were growing closer.
They were reported as saying: “[Rihanna and Rocky] shared a hotel suite during a trip in New York. Rihanna is reluctant to put a label on it as it's so soon after Hassan. They're really enjoying each other's company and taking things easy as it's still early days."
The insider continued: "It's really casual between them and she's not thinking about whether there's a future with Rocky. She's a newly-single girl having fun."
In the September of that year the pair collaborate on her Fenty line:
She launched a range of men’s skincare, and used Rocky to promote it.
By December, they were said to be inseparable and American media outlets confirmed they were officially an item.
Page Six and People reported the romance was a done deal.
"They've been inseparable the past few weeks," an insider told People publication. "It's a new relationship, but they both seem very into it."
The pair were said to be so inseparable that they even spent Christmas together that year, visiting Rihanna’s family in Barbados for the holidays, during which the couple are said to have taken a romantic ‘Catamaran sunset cruise’ on Christmas Eve.
2021 - They go public
Rihanna kicked off the year backing her beau - returning the favour to help him with his endeavours outside music.
On Instagram, Rihanna promoted a range of shoes he had designed in January.
The pair from this year onwards are public with their appearances together, and are spotted on date nights, going for dinner. However, neither of them have yet made any statement about being together at this point.
But this all changes in May of 2021 when Rocky very much goes public, calling Rihanna “the One” during an interview with GQ Magazine.
During the chat he called Rihanna both "my lady" and "the love of my life.”
He acknowledged his “ladies man past” but said: “(It’s) so much better when you got the One. She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones. I think when you know, you know. She's the one."
2022 - Pregnancy announcement
The pair go from strength to strength and in January, it is announced via a very public appearance that the Rihanna is pregnant with the pair’s first child.
She revealed she was pregnant by going out with a bare baby bump in a walk around New York, strolling hand in hand with Rocky.
An exclusive People source told the publication: “She couldn't be happier and is so excited to be a mom. She's loving all the changes to her body during pregnancy and has always celebrated pregnant women in her runway shows for Fenty.
"They're just like any other pair of parents-to-be. Yes, they happen to be famous but they're just the cutest, giddiest young couple that's expecting kids."
The couple's first son RZA was born in May 2022.
2023 - Second child and marriage rumours
Rihanna stuns the world during her first love performance in six years by not only performing at the Super Bowl, but by using the performance to announce her second pregnancy.
And not only that, but her biggest fan, Rocky, was captured recording her proudly as she did so.
A few weeks after her performance, Rihanna did an interview with British Vogue, where she spoke about her growing family.
She said: "We're best friends with a baby.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 pair later fuel marriage rumours when Rocky performs at the Spotify Beach at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France and refers to Rihanna in a speech to the crowd as his “wife”.
The pair welcomed second son Riot in August of that year.
2024
The couple appear to be going from strength to strength as new parents.
Rihanna gives a chat to Interview magazine, and reveals that while the two met in 2012, their romantic connection started in late 2019.
“We saw fashion the same. We saw creative the same. We ended up in the same circles a lot. And past that, when we grew up, we ended up supporting each other’s brands and products and creative all the time. I would wear his sh**, he would show up to my launches. But it wasn’t until the end of 2019 [that we got together] …”
“We’ve known each other for a long time. I’ve seen him in relationships. He’s seen me in relationships. We’ve seen each other outside of relationships. We knew what we’re capable of, and the trouble that we could bring to each other’s lives,” she said.
Rocky later gives an interview himself with W magazine speaking nothing but praise for Rihanna, saying he knew she was “the One”.
“I knew from when we were younger. We both did, I think. So it was only right when we got older. We just kind of reconnected.”
2025 - Support in court and third baby
Rocky appeared in court, charged with an incident which was alleged to have happened back in 2021.
A jury found Rocky not guilty in the felony assault trial in which he had been accused by former friend A$AP Relli of firing a semi-automatic handgun at him.
Rihanna stayed by Rocky’s side for the trial where he faced two charges of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
When he was acquitted the pair hugged, and were emotional.
Rihanna took to her Instagram story following the verdict writing: ““The glory belongs to God and God alone! Thankful, humbled by his mercy!”
The pair then in May attended the Met Ball where they again publicly announce they are pregnant with their third child.
She wore a black ensemble and even posed cradling her growing baby bump.
