Pop star Beyonce Knowles-Carter has announced via her Instagram account that she and husband Jay Z are expecting twins.
Beyonce has stunned fans with a new series of pregnancy photos - one in which she appears fully nude.
The 35-year-old singer - who already has five-year-old daughter Blue Ivy with her husband Jay Z - publicly announced she is expecting twins yesterday.
The post was liked more than 8.5million times, smashing the already impressive record set by Selena Gomez on Instagram, who held the record with 6,315,187 likes of a picture of her drinking a can of Coca Cola.
Now, the R&B superstar has unveiled several adorable images of herself on her website Beyonce.com flaunting her blossoming baby bump.
The Destiny's Child star filed the images under the caption, "I have three hearts", which feature images of her sporting sheaths of wet material that cling to her curvaceous frame and expose her swelling stomach, whilst she clutches at one of her breasts and another of her showing Blue Ivy sweetly kissing her bump.
One of the photos Beyonce posted on her website. Photo/Beyonce.com
Another photo sees the Lemonade hitmaker pose under water whilst she elegantly twists into various positions as red and orange fabric wrap around her body, which have been carefully positioned to ensure she doesn't expose too much flesh.
Beyonce floats in water in a new photo posted on her website Beyonce.com.
Another image shows Beyoncé posing in the nude and cradling her stomach.
Other pictures include the image the Dreamgirls actress shared on her Instagram account last night of her sporting a burgundy bra, blue silk panties and a green veil, as well as pictures of her and her spouse over the years.
Beyoncé - who has been married to Hard Knock Life rapper Jay Z for nine years - also shared a string of black and white images of her every month during her first pregnancy, as well as sentimental photographs of her 63-year-old mother Tina Knowles kneeling on a sandy beach when she was expecting her first daughter.
She captioned the image: "My mother pregnant with me, 1981. (sic)."
And has admitted she wonders whether her parent shared the same emotions she now feels as her brood is expanding.
One post read: "I look at photos of my mother when she was pregnant with m, does she feel how I feel now?"
Beyonce has unveiled a series of stunning pregnancy photos on her website.
Beyoncé also shared a poem about motherhood and how a woman's body changes over the nine months.
It read: "Mother is a cocoon where cells spark, limbs form, mother swells and stretched protect her child, mother has one foot in this world and one foot in the next, mother, black Venus."
