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

Rihanna’s toddler son was by her aspect 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 put up, the singer — who revealed throughout her Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present efficiency that she and associate A$AP Rocky expect a second child after welcoming their first son final Might — 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 Unique Music’ class, and can carry out her nominated music, “Raise Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally, on the March 12 ceremony. Because the footage in her Instagram put up reveals, the singer realized of her Oscars nod whereas watching the dwell 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 identify publicly, although the infant did just lately make his British Vogue debut. Posing together with her associate 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 all the things. 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 needs, the issues that you just take pleasure in, all the things, you simply do not establish with it since you do not even permit your self mentally to get that far, as a result of … it does not matter.”

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

“I simply went straight into protecting mode,” she advised the journal of seeing cameras educated 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 automotive chatting and understanding how we transfer ahead. As dad and mom 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, nonetheless, 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 this point and also you don’t have any consent to be posting photographs or promoting photographs of my little one, a minor. Get the hell out of right here with that.”