BEY: I ♥ MY MAMA BODY
Proud of her lbs.
Beyoncé looks “Flawless” on the cover of Vogue’s September issue (below), in which she gets candid about her body after delivering her twins last year.
“After the birth of my first child, I believed in the things society said about how my body should look,” Beyoncé (left, in the mag’s photo spread) says of the period after the birth of now-6-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
“I put pressure on myself to lose all the baby weight in three months and scheduled a small tour to assure I would do it. Looking back, that was crazy. After the twins, I approached things very differently.”
Queen Bey, 36, revealed that she was suffering from toxemia and topped the scales at 218 pounds the day son Sir and daughter Rumi were born via an emergency C-section on June, 13, 2017.
“My health and my babies’ health were in danger, so I had an emergency C-section,” she said. “We spent many weeks in the NICU. My husband [Jay-Z] was a soldier and such a strong support system for me. I am proud to have been a witness to his strength and evolution as a man, a best friend and a father. I was in survival mode and did not grasp it all until months later.”
She said she still carries a little extra padding — but she’s proud to rock it.
“To this day, my arms, shoulders, breasts and thighs are fuller. I have a little mommy pouch, and I’m in no rush to get rid of it. I think it’s real,” she said. “Whenever I’m ready to get a six-pack, I will go into beast zone and work my ass off until I have it. But right now, my little FUPA [fatty upper pubic area] and I feel like we are meant to be.”
Bey donned an ethereal, makeup-free look for her fourth Vogue cover and an over-the-top Rebel Rebel floral headpiece with a white ruffled Gucci dress.
“I think it’s important for women and men to see and appreciate the beauty in their natural bodies,” she said. “That’s why I stripped away the wigs and hair extensions and used little makeup for this shoot.”
The issue, which Beyoncé guest-edited, hits New York and LA newsstands on Aug. 14; it’s available nationwide on Aug. 21.