After Beyoncé’s Vogue Power issue cover was leaked this weekend, the publisher wasted no time releasing the accompanying photo spread and interview, no doubt to keep public interest peaked … and it seems they had the right idea.
The 31-year-old powerhouse looks fabulous in pictures shot by French fashion photographer, Patrick Demarchelier. She also sounds fabulous when talking about her “road dog” a.k.a daughter Blue Ivy.
“She’s my road dog. She’s my homey, my best friend. I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn’t become any more until I saw the baby. . . . But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child,” Beyoncé said about her baby girl. “I feel like I have something that has grounded me so much more. Family has always been important. I’ve always had my mother and my father and my husband. But it’s just. . . . Life is so much more than. . . It’s not defined by any of this.”
Even BFF Gwyneth Paltrow can see the powerful connection between mommy and baby; “Blue was sleeping in her arms, across her body, and B was listening back to what she had been working on. I thought, This is how you do it. You do what you love with who you love included,” Gwyneth told the mag.
Not only is Gwyneth a perceptive friend, she’s also a supportive one; “When she is working onstage, she has more power than any woman I’ve ever seen. She would never say it and has never said it, but I feel she knows with every fiber of her being that she is the best in the world at her job.”
Though Beyoncé may be the best at what she does, that doesn’t mean she can’t be hurt others opinions; “Don’t scroll down! You’re definitely going to get your feelings hurt,” the singer said in regard to not reading the comments people post on websites.
While Beyoncé loves her family and the idea of expanding it, she’s still not sure when she’ll be ready to do so; “Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. I feel a lot more confident about it. Even being heavier, thinner, whatever. I feel a lot more like a woman. More feminine, more sensual. And no shame. When I was younger, there were moments where I said, ‘I’m not going to have children,’ And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don’t know when.”
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