How Beyonce will BLING up her babies!
A £300k nursery with its own planetarium — and £23,000 cradles. As she gives birth to twins, no wonder even La-La Land is agog with...
CAN you feel a buzz in the air this morning? That’s the ‘Beyhive’, the millions of adoring fans of the R’n’B superstar Beyonce, pulsating with excitement over a showbusiness event of seismic importance. She has given birth to twins.
The double birth, which reportedly took place in secret at a Los Angeles hospital last week, has provided her besotted following with the perfect chance to fawn over a performer many of them call a ‘goddess’.
And who can blame them? After all, this is the woman who once said, ‘I’m more powerful than my mind can even digest’.
The 35-year-old and her 47-year-old hip hop mogul husband, Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, were recently hailed by financial magazine Forbes as the world’s first billion-dollar showbusiness couple.
The pair, who last year earned $147 million (£115 million) through music, endorsement deals and other companies, already have a daughter Blue Ivy, five.
As befitting parents whom critics find unbearably narcissistic, opportunistic and publicity-obsessed, their daughter has already featured in their music videos, their endless pictures on social media and even their business development plans.
And Blue Ivy won’t be the only one wondering how things will change now she has two baby siblings hogging the limelight. So what does life have in store for the Bey-Z twins?
PRACTICE RUNS AND DECOY HOSPITALS
IT’S been quite a drama so far. The Carters were scorched by the negative publicity when Blue Ivy was born in New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital in 2012. As the couple forked out for a lavish ‘executive suite’, other patients complained their entourage was ‘heavy-handed’ and obstructed hospital visitors.
Now living in more celeb-friendly Los Angeles, they reportedly rented a $100,000-a-month mansion in Hollywood, previously owned by Madonna, because it was only a five-minute drive from Beyonce’s chosen hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Amid rumours that the couple were terribly stressed by the then imminent double birth, their bodyguards were taking no chances, doing practice runs to the hospital.
Neighbours then claimed the couple were dispensing with hospital completely by installing their own £1 million maternity ward, including incubators and an ‘entire professional neo-natal wing’, in their nine-bedroom home.
Could it have been an elaborate decoy to hide the couple’s hospital choice?
In the event, it appears Beyonce actually gave birth at a different hospital — UCLA Medical Centre. Her sister Solange, Jay-Z and Blue Ivy were spotted there last week and security outside its maternity ward was ramped up. It’s understood the twins have not yet come home from hospital.
Sources have revealed that ‘Bey and Jay are thrilled and have started sharing the news with family and closest friends’. But no official word or obligatory heavily-styled pictures yet.