For the most part, Rihanna likes to keep her relationship with A$AP Rocky private, but the singer-slash-entrepreneur opened up about their romance for a new Vogue cover story.
Riri shared intimate details about their bond, including her favorite qualities. “What I love the most about us?” she asked before answering. “Transparency with everything: how we’re feeling, what our goals are, what our fears and insecurities are. The vulnerability to be able to say what you feel about each other.”
The mom-to-be also got candid about how their relationship transformed into romance after years of friendship. “People don’t get out of the friend zone very easily with me,” she said. “And I certainly took a while to get over how much I know him and how much he knows me, because we also know how much trouble we can land each other in.”
In 2020, Rihanna and the “Fashion Killa” rapper began casually dating. However, the pair experienced a turning point in their relationship during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He became my family in that time,” she explained, adding that a roadtrip from New York to Los Angeles made all the difference. “I love the simple things but also the grand adventures. There’s no pretentious my-brand-your-brand bulls–t, it’s just us living. I just feel like I can do any part of life by his side.”
Later that year, she brought him home to meet her family, and her mom, who doesn’t easily approve of people, liked Rocky. “There are some guys that I’ve dated that she won’t even look at to this day,” Riri said about her mother. “But she was charmed by him from the jump.”
Check out Rihanna’s full Vogue interview here.
After Rihanna confirmed that she’s pregnant and expecting her first child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky earlier this week, fans around the world have been overjoyed. Though the parents-to-be went public with their romance fairly recently, they’ve been friends for years.
Keep scrolling to learn the timeline of their relationship.
2012
Rihanna had Rocky join her for the remixed version of her song “Cockiness (Love It).” Shortly after the remix dropped, they performed it at the MTV VMAs.
2013
Rocky was the opening act for Rihanna’s Diamonds world tour, which kicked off in the spring. Before the end of the year, Riri appeared in Rocky’s “Fashion Killa” music video. The rapper seemingly manifested having children with the Savage X Fenty founder with lyrics as follows: “Her attitude Rihanna/She get it from her mama” and “Versace, got a lot, but she may never wear it/But she save it so our babies will be flyer than their parents.”
2015
When Rocky was asked about the women he’d previously been linked to, he denied Rihanna dating rumors. “It never happened,” he told Hot 97‘s Nessa. “If it happened, then it would have happened. We didn’t do that. You never know. That’s not what I’m looking forward to. I’m looking forward to the friendship that I already have with all these females.”
2018
The duo attended the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week, where they sat next to each other.
2019
In September, Rocky showed Riri support by attending her Diamond Ball, which she organizes for charity. In December, the pair walked the red carpet together at the British Fashion Awards at London’s Royal Albert Hall. During a video interview conducted by Rihanna, crossed branded by GQ and Vogue nearly a year later, Rocky revealed her Fenty mint green dress was his “favorite outfit” of hers.
2020
In January, the Barbados native called it quits with Hassan Jameel, whom she dated for three years. A few weeks later, Rihanna and Rocky sparked dating rumors once again when they were seen together at the Yams Day concert in NYC. “It’s really casual between them and she’s not thinking about whether there’s a future with Rocky. She’s a newly-single girl having fun,” a source told The Sun at the time.
In August, the two promoted Fenty Skin in the GQ-slash-Vogue video interview previously mentioned. By the end of the year, things had gotten serious. They were photographed spending the holidays together in Riri’s homeland, where Rocky reportedly met her parents.
2021
By May, it was confirmed the two were in fact an item. Rocky called Rihanna “the One” and “the love” of his life. “[It's] so much better,” he told GQ about being in a relationship. “So much better when you got the One. She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones. I think when you know, you know. She’s the One.”
In September, they made their red carpet debut as a couple when they attended the Met Galatogether. Later that month, Rihanna gave fans an insight into her sex life. “I like incense, weed, cologne and a little bit of hard work,” she told E! News‘ Daily Pop.
2022
It was reported that Rihanna and Rocky were expecting baby No. 1. They didn’t confirm the news until the end of January when they went on a New York City stroll and the pregnant musician showed off her baby bump. A few days later, she made her pregnancy Instagram official.
A fashion-foward mom herself, Kim Kardashian has been singing Rihanna‘s praises as the expecting mother has been making headlines with her show-stopping pregnancy outfits. The KKW Beauty mogul fangirl-ed over the singer on Instagram, reposting her latest outfit. Ready for a night on the town last Saturday night, the Fenty Beauty founder was spotted wearing a leg-baring leather mini skirt and diamond bra underneath an open leather bomber jacket, showing off her baby bump.Kardashian wrote, “Omg, best pregnancy style ever,” tagging Rihanna in her encouraging story. The Barbadian singer has been a trendsetter in the maternity fashion arena, proving you don’t have to give up your personal sense of taste when you become a mother. Since announcing her pregnancy, Rihanna has been seen rocking belly-revealing outfits to show off her bump, like her stunning custom Coperni set and the sheer black lingerie she wore to the Dior Fall/Winter 2022 show at Paris Fashion Week.
If you can’t get enough of Rihanna’s pregnancy style, check out this round-up of our favorite fits.
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