Rihanna shares new photograph of her son — and the second she realized she obtained an Oscar nomination

Rihanna’s toddler son was by her facet when she found she’d been nominated for an Oscar — however he will not be tagging alongside for the occasion itself.

In a brand new Instagram publish, the singer — who revealed throughout her Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present efficiency that she and companion A$AP Rocky predict a second child after welcoming their first son final Could — shared a photograph of her firstborn.

Noting the little boy’s tearful expression, Rihanna captioned the shot, “My son when he discovered his sibling goes to the Oscars and never him.”

The star has been nominated within the “Finest Authentic Track’ class, and can carry out her nominated track, “Raise Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly, on the March 12 ceremony. Because the footage in her Instagram publish exhibits, the singer realized of her Oscars nod whereas watching the stay nominations broadcast on her laptop computer together with her 9-month-old child boy on her lap.

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky haven’t but shared their son’s title publicly, although the infant did lately make his British Vogue debut. Posing together with her companion and their child on the journal’s March cowl, the pop star and Fenty founder opened up about motherhood.

“Oh, my God, it is legendary,” she mentioned. “It is every part. You actually do not keep in mind life earlier than, that is the craziest factor ever. You actually attempt to keep in mind it — and there are photographs of my life earlier than — however the feeling, the wishes, the issues that you just get pleasure from, every part, you simply do not determine with it since you do not even permit your self mentally to get that far, as a result of … it would not matter.”

She additionally shared how the journal’s seashore photograph shoot — which caught the eye of photographers — prompted her to preemptively publish photographs of her son’s face for the primary time on TikTok.

“I simply went straight into protecting mode,” she informed the journal of seeing cameras skilled on her child. “Like there wasn’t even time for rage. [Rocky and I] drove as much as the trailer space and we sat within the automobile chatting and understanding how we transfer ahead. As mother and father it simply feels so icky, like a violation. … As we have been talking, we knew they have been making calls and offers.”

Posting her child on TikTok, nevertheless, undercut these offers, and gave the brand new mother a way of management.

“Throw me to the wolves,” she mentioned. “Do what you need with me. However he doesn’t have a say in any of this. We’ve been defending him to date and also you don’t have any consent to be posting photographs or promoting photographs of my youngster, a minor. Get the hell out of right here with that.”