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What We Know About Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s 3 Kids, Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir
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Look up the term “power couple” in the dictionary and you might find a photo of parents of three, Beyoncé and JAY-Z. While Beyoncé has posted tons of photos of their eldest daughter over the years, she’s been a lot more private when it comes to sharing snapshots of her twins, only showing them off here and there.
Of course, all three kids have been in the spotlight since before they were born. Beyoncé famously announced her first pregnancy during a 2011 performance of “Love on Top” at the MTV Video Music Awards. In 2017, she announced that she was expecting her twins by sharing a stunning photo of her baby bump on Instagram, inevitably sending the internet into a frenzy.
Over the years, she and JAY-Z have occasionally opened up about parenthood. “[Having a daughter] just gives you purpose,” Beyonce said in a 2012 interview with Anderson Cooper. “I realized why I was born, and more than anything, all of the things I want to pass on to my child – and the best way of doing that is not by preaching or telling her, but showing her by example.”
JAY-Z said something similar in a 2021 interview with LeBron James, revealing that having children changed his whole perspective. “I didn’t learn how to swim until Blue was born. There goes everything you need to know,” he said. “This is a metaphor for our relationship. If she ever fell in the water and I couldn’t get her, I couldn’t even fathom that thought. I gotta learn how to swim. That’s it.”
Keep reading to learn a little bit more about Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s three kids and see some of their sweet family photos.
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Sir and Rumi Carter
Beyoncé and JAY-Z welcomed their second and third children, twins, son Sir and daughter Rumi, on June 13, 2017. Although Blue is often out and about with her parents, they’ve kept their younger children mostly out of the spotlight thus far. Still, Beyoncé sometimes shares a photo or two – such as the rare family snapshot she posted around Halloween in 2022, with the twins adorably dressed up as CeCe and BeBe from Disney Channel’s “Proud Family.”
We don’t know many specifics about the twins, though Rumi has apparently become quite the fashionista over the years – at least according to Tina Knowles-Lawson. “She has an amazing sense of style,” Knowles-Lawson said in an interview with Oprah Daily.
In the documentary “Homecoming,” Beyoncé explained that her pregnancy with the twins was especially taxing on her body. “I was supposed to do Coachella the year prior, but I got pregnant unexpectedly,” she explained in a monologue. “And it ended up being twins, which was even more of a surprise. My body went through more than I knew it could. I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth. I had an extremely difficult pregnancy. I had high blood pressure, toxemia, preeclampsia, and, in the womb, one of my babies’ heartbeats paused a few times, so I had to get an emergency C-section.”
