You've seen the sneak peek at her March 2013 VOGUE cover, now get the official cover shot...and the pics from her spread too. Check out the fab photos, BTS footage and excerpts from her cover story inside...
The gorge 31-year-old superstar is rocking the pages of VOGUE magazine with an understated glam that she's been perfecting the last couple of years. Queen Bey is talking being besties with her 1-year-old baby girl...while ruling the world with her performances at the same time. Oh, and yes...she tries to avoid your comments about her on the internet.
With a BIG Superbowl halftime show performance under her belt, and a World Tour, an album, a sit-down with Oprah and an HBO documentary coming up, this half-billion dollar chick just won't stop. And we love it.
Here's excerpts from her cover story:
On her intense relationship with 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. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn’t think about my own pain. . . . We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.
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."
On having more kids
“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.”
Gwyneth Paltrow on Beyonce's maternal instincts
“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 on her best friend's power
“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.”
On recording her new album in the Hamptons
“We had dinners with the producers every day, like a family. It was like a camp. Weekends off. You could go and jump in the pool and ride bikes . . . the ocean and grass and sunshine. . . . It was really a safe place.”
Excerpt from her HBO Documentary about the decision to split from her father Mathew Knowles
“My soul has been tarnished,” she declares—but later, as she asserts her independence and confronts the petty squabbles of the business, she comes around to appreciating her father’s hand. “My father taught me so much about being a businesswoman,” she says. “And I’m understanding him a lot now. . . . A lot of the crazy things he did were necessary.”
On avoiding the comments sections on websites
“Don’t scroll down! You’re definitely going to get your feelings hurt.”
On the perks of marrying Jay-Z
“Just knowing someone’s always going to be honest and tell the truth,” she says of Jay-Z, “[who] can understand exactly what I’m going through—and I can understand exactly what he’s going through.”
On why she won't ever get immersed in work again
“At some point it’s very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do."
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She's officially on her very grown and sexy tip. Check out the full story over at VOGUE.
Photographs by Patrick Demarchelier