It was a viral second that rocked social media on the Met Gala — and we’re not talking about RiRi’s being pregnant announcement!
Rihanna dominated the 2025 Met Gala with one epic baby reveal and one different second of therapeutic for everyone.
That’s undoubtedly how social media took it as footage of Ciara holding Rihanna’s baby bump on the event began to stream into, bringing a means of closure 14 years after the dueling songstresses had one very momentary and actually epic Twitter feud.
Proving it wasn’t solely an image op for the cameras, each, Rihanna and Ciara moreover posed alongside their companions, A$AP Rocky and Russell Wilson — with Jeff Goldblum, too, on account of who says no to Jeff Goldblum?
Rihanna and Ciara had been every tearing up the charts throughout the 2000s, nevertheless by 2011, points took a flip when hurt feelings led to 1 epic comeback. It received right here after Ciara talked about on E!’s Type Police that she’d currently run into Rihanna at a celebration and talked about, “She wasn’t the nicest.”
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4 phrases that rocked the world … for a second. Rihanna quickly jumped on Twitter (now X) and clapped once more, “My unhealthy ci, did i 4get to tip u?”
“Perception me Rihanna u dont wanna see me on or off the stage,” Ciara hit once more, nevertheless the followup response from Rihanna turned the stuff of net legend: “Good luck with information that stage u talk of.”
The outrage between the women didn’t simmer or rise to a boil, though, as many Hollywood feuds do. In its place, as quickly as Rihanna buried her foe, she dug her once more up and equipped a sincere apology.
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Rihanna Pregnant, Reveals Baby Bump Sooner than 2025 Met Gala
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“Ciara baby, I like u girl! U hurt my feelings precise unhealthy on TV! I’m heartbroken! That’s y l retaliated this way! So sorry! #letsmakeup,” she tweeted on the time.
Ciara replied, “Rhi u know its always been love since day 1! Doing reveals/the whole thing. you threw me off in that event! Apology accepted. Let’s chat specifically individual.”
They normally’ve accomplished merely that throughout the years since, and have had good points to say about each other for years. Nonetheless for these on social media Monday night, this photographed second symbolized what’s been talked about for years and made it further precise — with many noting it’s the main time the pair have posed for a pic collectively in 15 years.
EVERYONE BE QUIET 😭 THIS IS A MOMENT IN HISTORY RIGHT NOW RIHANNA AND CIARA HAVE LINKED UP 😭🩷 pic.twitter.com/EnbFzqAetc
— THUGGA (@THUGGABEY) May 6, 2025
@THUGGABEY
Ciara & Rihanna have reunited on the #MetGala.
That’s their first picture collectively in over 15 years. pic.twitter.com/GwrG7sixJ0
— music data (@music__data) May 6, 2025
@music__data
My two girls 😍😍. CiCi is all of that. @rihanna is my baby
— Coon (@triumphant_1ne) May 6, 2025
@triumphant_1ne
For those who occur to weren’t on twitter once more in its prime you wouldn’t understand how essential it’s seeing Ciara & Rihanna in {a photograph} collectively!!😭🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/FUGU1BM9Ez
— Javier Sparks (@PilatesPapii) May 6, 2025
@PilatesPapii
Ciara and Rihanna linking up is so cool. ❤️
— Khomotso (@KhomotsoKD) May 6, 2025
@KhomotsoKD
The meat is formally OVEEEEER. Rihanna and Ciara collectively. My shaylaaaas pic.twitter.com/Qg8PzPWNRN
— IC SAMA (@omidan_Ifemint) May 6, 2025
@omidan_Ifemint
Rihanna & Ciara collectively? That’s progress.
— DominicHorne.eth (@iamDominicHorne) May 6, 2025
@iamDominicHorne
Ciara in 2016 : “Perception me Rhianna u dont want to see me on or off the stage”
Rihanna:” Good Luck reserving that stage you talk of.
Forward to 2025 …..Rihanna and Ciara are on good phrases 😄😁😃 The world is therapeutic. #MetGala2025 pic.twitter.com/xLKGzJgIZB— 𓃠ֆʏʀǟӼ𓆃𓆙👑🩰❤🧜♀️ (@SyraxSunfyre) May 6, 2025
@SyraxSunfyre
I want a Rihanna/Ciara collaboration, enough time has handed, they be pregnant on the same time yearly, give us a dance BOP.
— Herbie Kersen (@yourditarrie_) May 6, 2025
@yourditarrie_
In spite of everything, the large Rihanna info of the night was the reveal that she’s pregnant alongside together with her third teen with A$AP Rocky. The couple already share RZA, 2 and Riot, 1.
The couple actually broke it sooner than Rihanna’s pink carpet look, with the “Umbrella” star revealing her bump when she arrived on the Carlyle Resort to organize. Her non-public photographer, Diggzy shared further footage to Instagram.
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You probably can check out the entire unimaginable Met Gala 2025 appears to be throughout the gallery beneath. This 12 months’s costume code was “Tailored for You” on the theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Mannequin.”
The theme has been described by Vogue as “analyzing the importance of garments and magnificence to the formation of Black identities throughout the Atlantic diaspora” with “the Black dandy as its subject.”
A$AP Rocky was among the many many celebrity co-chairs, changing into a member of Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour.
The road-up of well-known males had been available to chair the first menswear exhibition since 2003’s “Males in Skirts”.
This 12 months’s event moreover launched once more a bunch committee, made up of icons from paintings, custom, vogue, film, music, and sports activities actions per The Met.
The model new committee comprises: André 3000, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens, Grace Wales Bonner, Jordan Casteel, Dapper Dan, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Edward Enninful, Jeremy O. Harris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Rashid Johnson, Regina King, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Pope, Angel Reese, Sha’Carri Richardson, Olivier Rousteing, Tyla, USHER, and Kara Walker.