Rihanna shone bright like a diamond at the 2024 Crop Over Festival in her native Barbados.
The “Work” singer caused a commotion Monday as she appeared at the carnival, rocking a bejewelled, full-body costume with a matching headpiece and multicoloured, feathered wings.
The pop star understandably wowed fans as videos circulated on X.
“Looking amazing as usual! 😍,” one person wrote, while another posted, “a literal goddess 😍✨.”
The Grammy winner, 36, has attended the Crop Over Festival in previous years. In her last appearance in 2019, she made a statement in a hot pink minidress covered in similarly coloured ostrich feathers. In 2015, she posted a saucy video of herself twerking with the caption, “Eye-soul-action #CaribbeanGal #Culture.”
Two years later, the Fenty Beauty founder — whose real name is Robyn Fenty — was accused of a Photoshop fail when she posted a picture of her carnival outfit, which showed her seemingly sporting an extra thumb.
The Barbadian carnival originated on the sugar cane plantations during slavery and marked the end of the harvest. The event is the country’s most popular and colourful festival and can be traced back centuries to when Barbados was the world’s largest sugar cane producer. It celebrates the end of one sugar cane season and the culmination of another.
Earlier this month, Rihanna and longtime partner A$AP Rocky celebrated their youngest son Riot’s first birthday. The “D.M.D.M.B.pper, 35, posted a carousel of sweet images with the caption, “HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY TO MY 2ND BORN SON RIOT ROSE MAYERS ❤️.”
The couple confirmed their relationship in 2021 and announced they were expecting the following year. They welcomed their first son, R.Z.A.A, R.Z.A.. 2022 and Riot the following year. The billionaire entrepreneur has confirmed that she’s open to expanding their brood.
“I would go for more than two,” she told Interview magazine in April. “I would try for my girl. But of course, if it’s another boy, it’s another boy. [I’ll have] as many as God wants me to have,” the “Umbrella” songstress added. “I don’t know what God wants.”
In February 2023, she also shared how difficult postpartum was for her.
“You don’t sleep. At all. Even if you wanted to,” she told British Vogue, calling the early days of parenting a “headf–k.”
