Pregnant Rihanna Can Take a Bow After Her Epic Super Bowl Halftime Show – E! Online

After that incredible performance, fans might ask Rihanna where have you been? But to be fair, the 34-year-old has been rather busy. In addition to growing her Fenty empire, RiRi welcomed her first child with A$AP Rocky last spring.

Still, Rihanna felt like now was the perfect time to return to the stage.

“It feels like it could have only been now,” she said at the press conference about performing at the Super Bowl. “I mean, when I first got the call to do it again this year, I was like, ‘You sure? Like, I’m three months postpartum. Like, should I be making major decisions like this right now? Like, I might regret this.’ But when you become a mom, there’s something that just happens where you feel like you can take on the world, you can do anything.” 

She added, “The Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world. So, as scary as that was, because I haven’t been on stage in seven years, there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all. And it’s important for me to do this this year. It’s important for representation. It’s important for my son to see that.”