This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. There are so many things wrong with this photo I don’t know where to start. It looks like she is posing in front of a funeral spray from a bad florist. What the hell is she wearing?
Are we going to buy this whole pregnancy thing?
I debated on posting about this because I’m not a huge fan, I’m more J-Lo than Bey. But didn’t she fake her last pregnancy and have Blue Ivy by surrogate?
Don’t yell at me.
But does anyone else find this weird?
The photo is all sorts of wrong. Doesn’t make me think she’s faking it, but causes me to reach for a teddy bear and wonder if we are moving backwards in time.
YES!!! Whoever the stylist was for this disaster should be canned! Totally don’t get it!
Couldn’t she have at least worn matching undergarments? Or would that be tacky?
I saw some speculation (fans free thinking, not any sort of celeb news outlet) that the mismatched underwear might be a secret (alleged) signal she’s having a boy and a girl. However, I’m with TT, why is this picture so WEIRD?! It looks like one of the bad “Glamour Shots” set ups from back in the day. She must have a gazillion stylists, glam squad workers and photographers available to her and THIS is what is presented?? Also, did it 100 percent come out that the whole first pregnancy was a total cover for a surrogate set up? I rememeber how odd and questionable her pregnancy appearances were, but somehow missed if it was confirmed about the surrogate?
I guess that makes sense. I’m not sure if it was ever confirmed, but I remember her prosthetic belly folded in half during some interview.
LOL
Yeah, I was trying to figure it out, the veil perhaps an homage to a madonna of sorts. The flowers offer beauty/distraction? Yellowish green veil, burgundy bra, blue panties…sort of colorful but I think the bottom line is she wants the public to know this time she’s doing it herself, so no more fake baby slip ups. (Makes me think of the Kevin Hart Real Husbands of Hollywood storyline every time I think of Beyonce’s baby debacle and vice versa.
Looks like a Kehinde Wiley painting.
When glamour shots go bad. Holy crap, looks like someone in Uzbekistan did this photo shoot.A high school student there.
^^^perfection!
I wonder if the similarity to Wiley’s art is no accident.
Admittedly, my first thought was “funeral spray..”
Can’t possibly be an accident. I saw the retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum last year. This could have been on the wall.
What I find odd (besides those big, ruffled, blue knickers) is that the Carters are usually so private, but the pics just keep coming. It’s very Kardashian. The pic of her handing Blue Ivy a flower is the creepiest thing I have ever seen.
I think she poses like that so people would speculate if she carried the babies or not (people started a rumor about her not carrying Blue)
As for the artistic inspiration, it’s what ever floats your boat. I know I’m her “Life is but a dream” documentary she talked about her miscarriages and the grief she experienced. Also the joy of finding out she was expecting Blue and the pregnancy was healthy. Maybe the artistic theme has some underlying theme or shrine to her misscarriages.
People won’t speculate (darn auto correct)
Ah! You could be right about that! I really don’t know much about her and am more into Solange.
Very astute observation luvlee2u. I’m not artistic in any sense, so hadn’t seen it that way.
What would the veil represent? Hiding?
Personally, I’m thrilled for her. I don’t care about the conspiracy theories at all. Go BEY!
You really need to check out the whole series of photos. They are so bizarre.
I actually like the other photos and think they’re beautiful.
The whole thing is weird. The photo looks like a Walmart photoshopped joke. Why o why?
If she wants to be pregnant, then good for her.
I do NOT understand why this is such earth-shattering, stop-the-presses news.
I think Beyoncé is the singlemost overrated performer out there. I mean, she hasn’t done anything that Diana Ross hasn’t done first and better. Much, much better. Yes I said it.
Thank you. I absolute agree with you!
Amen
I agree. Her pregnancy is not that big of a deal and the media covers it like it’s the second coming of Christ.
I completely agree with you! Way overrated and I personally could care less that she chose to be pregnant with twins. Does anyone think that this was a surprise?
I have a coworker who was in tears when she heard the pregnancy news. It was so strange. Naturally I walked away.
Well let’s see. Diana Ross doesn’t have her vocal range, doesn’t dance as well as her, but they respect each others talent and contributions to the music industry.
AMEN I’m glad someone said it! The picture may have not been what we’d have imagined from her but it’s her vision. Either way respect both those women as idols and respect that the are female idols in a rock star reality tv dominated world. Prince even gave her prop. Besides everyone else is free to use burlap as much as they want am I right?!?!
My guess is she’s throwing down a gender smokescreen. Burgundy bra with pink bows, blue ruffly panties with a green ( or yellow-green) veil. Yellow and/or pale green are used for baby without a gender bias.
So the undergarments throw off a boy and girl hint, but the green veil says “no gender clues for YOU.”
This is photoshopped to hell and back.
It looks like Mimi’s photoshop expert, Mama June’s stylist, and a funeral director got together and directed this mess from 1974.
I think it is a different surrogate this time, & the photos are awful.
I had to hear all about the underpants on the local news last night. I am from St. Louis and apparently the company that made them are from here and only in business a few months… they were made in America but that might be the only good thing to say about them.
When I first saw the photo I assumed it was a hoax because of how tacky it is. She needs to steal Erika Jayne’s glam squad.
Beyoncé didn’t fake her first pregnancy. Whatever the debacle over the folded dress is, she has put out videos in which you can clearly see that she’s pregnant, for real. On her website she also uploaded a full fledged, absolutely beautiful maternity shoot both dressed and undressed. Cut her some slack!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! You may be the last person on the planet that thinks she carried Jay’s mini me.
Looks like someone bought up every flower down at the Dollar Tree, grabbed grandmother’s portieres off the wall and styled themselves a Glamor Shot.
And do we REALLY believe she is pregnant?
Because one of two things have happened here.
A) They’ve knocked up another surrogate with two eggs. NTTAWWT And She’s going to shove bigger cushions under her dress this time.
or
4) After years of infertility issues, she is now pregnant with twins.
Which seems more likely considering this trying to hard, bizarro photographic display?
Here is the breakdown on the last “pregnancy” http://blackbag.gawker.com/did-beyonce-fake-her-pregnancy-1693597363
How far along is she???? I’ve got twins and didn’t look like that until 6 months along. The one Wendy showed today on the car, WTF????
supposedly around four?
I still say she’s faking it again an two implants in the very expensive surrogate worked. And again, WHAT IS WRONG WITH JUST SAYING “I’m BEYONCE BITCHES! I GOT SHIT TO DO?”
Stuffing shit under your dress or doing the whole LOOK AT MY WEIRD PREGNANCY PHOTOS, is odd,
I believe it is her eggs and his sperm, but I don’t think she is pregnant herself.
Why not just say she has a broken uterus and is grateful blah blah blah and go do her concert?
Possibly to prevent the type of the fallout Camille Grammer (sp?) had after it was revealed that both their kids were via surrogate to keep her small figure?
I thought it was Adrienne that kept it a secret. I don’t think Camille ever hid it.
“Why not just say she has a broken uterus?”
Wow. The humanity is definitely missing from these comments. Does it actually matter if she had a surrogate or not? A woman is pregnant and will soon bring new life into the world. Can’t we all get behind that and be happy? Damn…
I think we are just all so gobsmacked by the ridiculous smoke and mirrors that the babies are not what we are discussing.
I’m pregnant right now and showing. I’m showing a lot earlier than my first pregnancy. Based on her having twins and this being her 2nd pregnancy I’m guessing 3 to 5 months.
But this isn’t her second pregnancy. It’s her first.
Very weird.
It looks like she’s confused. Funeral or wedding. Pink (bows) or blue (shorts).
Also, I hate to admit it, but when I first glanced at the photo I thought it was Gia under that veil, then saw the pregnant belly and was really confused.
So so weird. It’s like a picture I would do as a joke. And she doesn’t really look that pregnant.
trying.way.too.hard …. not just this photo but with everything she does.
THANK YOU. I find it very strange. I will never get over that video of her first pregnancy where her stomache is moving all over the place. I’m sorry. I’ve said it before and I stand by it now…Adele (sp?) is a much better singer. I don’t understand all the hype around B.
Adele is overrated.
I don’t know why we are giving this legs? Who gives a crap if they have more kids. There just trying to be relevant. Just like the kartrashens.
The pics are weird, one has a bust of the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti off to the side very weird
You are so right! This is straight out of one of those Awkward Family Photo sites. It is beyond weird and tacky. Whoever styled this should be horsewhipped.
Tacky. Beyond. Why in bras and unmatched underwear. The wrinkles in the sky backdrop. The underwater shots from her Instagram really show what she truly looks like because there’s no contouring make up.
I don’t understand what is wrong with our society.
Here you have a talented woman (and yes, she is talented) who.. wait for it… dated a man for 7 years… then GOT MARRIED first.. and then had a child with her husband. Whether the baby was done by surrogate, real pregnancy or not is immaterial.
She has said she has had a miscarriage before. So if they had to to do IVF, as so many other families have done, then good for she and her husband.
Why would anyone bash and over analyze what is a normally celebrated event in a families life?
Because her last elaborate ruse was kind of hysterical?
And she’s strategized this pregnancy announcement to such an extreme. What is basically happy news for her and her family seems like an exercise in marketing her ‘brand’.
And I think Beyonce is incredibly talented and unmatched as a performer. But this just turns me off.
Poor Beyoncé is just like us! Except I’m pretty sure most new mothers wouldn’t have their body guards overtake a wing of a hospital and attempt to keep parents from their newborn babies in 2012.
I can’t believe grown ass people are really into these conspiracy theories. And before you think I’m a fan, nope. I’m an old school, Anita Baker, Teena Marie type music lover. Beyonce is multi-talented and living HER dreams.
I don’t get it. It’s very weird & peculiar. Looks funeral-ish. I don’t like!
I think she is going Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. It feels like a bad flashback.
Thank God, some perspective. You’re pregnant. I’m happy for you but purleeeeeeeeease.
I think her head is photoshopped o to the pregnant body. Thus, the veil.
* onto the pregnant body. Sorry.
Bingo!
Do I think Beyoncé faked her last pregnancy No, do I think this is the worst glamour shot/awkward family photo? Absolutely. There are better ways to announce your preggers, this was not one of them. Why the veil? Why the Daisy Duke looking underwear? she had to have been overcome with hormones to allow someone to put her in this outfit and then take a picture of her.
I’m either old, or totally oblivious. The post and comments I actually know/knew nothing about (except Beyonce is preggers). Great fun reading when this is new to me. Really funny.
Sorry bumble bees or whatever her fans call themselves, it’s all so crazy. Lol
p.s. I’m certainly going to do a little research on the truth about her pregnancy. Fascinating. 🙂
Looks like a tacky funeral spray and that she’s in mourning. Maybe she’s saying “See bitches I’m doing it myself this time and I got fucking stretch marks, happy now?” I’m not a fan of her at all, but it’s got us all talking about it so that’s probably the point.
I think this pic is doctored. I don’t know care whether she is pregnant or not but I’m tired of seeing it on my Instagram feed. All this is feeding the frenzy.
I’m gonna take a picture like this after I’ve had too much pizza and see if I get the same reaction. Because I’ll look basically the same, with less weave. And a penis.
We’ll decide whether or not that’s a real penis. 😉
Probably what the craziest thing is, is that people no longer just say what is happening. Everything seems to have to be carefully announced, presented, produced, unveiled. Wish they’d just say what needs saying and get over themselves.
That is what happens when you are a “brand”. You have to “plan”.
Apparently it’s all to do with art history.
Different visual traditions and different genres, from devotional to mythological and allegorical imagery. It was a series of photos. She appears as not one but many women—or, instead, maybe the universal woman and mother—at once Virgin and Venus, Flora and Leda, allegedly.
Don’t care for her and don’t find these photos particularly artistic.
Wow to that comment that Camille and or Adrienne had a surrogate so as not to mess up their figures. If that’s not the height of narsicistic behavior , I don’t know what is. I had not heard that somehow.
That photo is an unrivaled mess – can’t believe it was staged by professionals. It looks as though someone’s old granny (who loved flowers and wouldn’t even consider doing it without a bra) set it up and included one of her unwashed lace curtains as a veil. If she’s really pregnant, more power to her, but she really needs to replace her design team. If she’s not, then it’s kind of sick to go to those lengths to make it look as though she is. Not a big fan of hers, but good luck to her whether she’s really preggers or using a surrogate.
The photographer is LA based multi-media artist, Awol Erizku. Born in Ethiopia, grew up in the Bronx, graduated from the Cooper-Union School of Art, MFA from Yale, had his work shown at MOMA, and the Nina Johnson Gallery, NYC. (I’m an artist and was curious who shot them.)
The totally BIZARRE photos arre supposedly an homage to classical artists – think Botticelli – combining his conceptual art and photography. The car photo with more flowers than the funereal one, was a work he had previously shown to much acclaim, according to ArtNews. He also paints, sculpts and makes short films.
So, apparently, he’s a big deal and I think his choices (i.e. blue panties), in his mind, are subliminal references to classical portraits. Which artists are anyone’s guess.
Seems like the Carters wanted him to create masterpieces. Only in the eye of the beholder.
Not my style, but to each his own. I don’t think she’s faking now or the first time, either. Just my opinion. If she has had infertility issues, i’ve heard it’s common to have multiple births when/if you do get pregnant, maybe she had in vitro where several eggs are put in? Who knows.
More power to her 🙂
Shae, I concur. joanne, thank you for the background on the photographer/artist Awol Erizku, which provides a fact-based perspective.
I’m happy for her.
If a woman wants children, babies are a blessing any way you get them. I had blissful pregnancies, some women don’t. Some women adopt, some women have surrogates. Some women have heartbreaking years of fertility treatments. Some women don’t want children ever. None of them are wrong. Why shame one, and praise others, and tear others apart for their choices. It’s baffling.
What’s baffling is using pregnancies for weird attention. Just say it, rest, sell pictures when born. Like other celebrities. Oh and have a body reveal for more attention when its over.
She is who she is and can announce it how she wishes. Why? American and all that. And, not hurting anyone. And, working within an artist’s vision. There are numerous reasons why she did it, some are the same reasons we hide behind screen names, so we can post what we want, in secret, BUT for attention. Now, I’m going to go do more research on the artist, that many only knew about inside the art world.
Cake, I like you and I like the way you think. 🙂
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Oh, ok..FU twitter….I’m here now tt but in the beginning I swear that I led me to a dead end. I also swear that when I typed in tamara tattles.com that that also led me to a dead end. Which led me to your twitter…which I could always count on to bring me to your page…#desperation
lol omg, where do I begin with bey….she stuffs her menses with the holy scriptures…I think I will end with that…#overkill
This is just one of the photos. I liked the other’s better.