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While Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving by gobbling up turkey, stuffing and more football than is absolutely necessary, Rihanna spent the holiday weekend honoring her home country of Barbados while also sneaking in a few previously unseen pregnancy bikini pics.
The singer paid tribute to the Caribbean island nation where she was born in an Instagram post on Monday morning (Dec. 1) featuring a slide show packed with snaps of food, island scenes, her Barbadian passport and adorable pics of her two eldest children with partner A$AP Rocky.
“Congratulations to Barbados, MY HOME, on our 59th year of Independence and our 4th year as a Republic!,” Rihanna wrote in a post that opened with a moody picture of the “Work” singer standing amid tall grass, with her hair blown across her eyes by the wind. “Today also marks the installation of our 2nd President, His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel The Most Honorable Jeffrey Bostic , who alongside our Honorable Prime Minister Mia Mottley will continue to lead Barbados with excellence!! Barbados I L🇧🇧VE YOU!!!!”
Other snaps in the post picture RihRih floating in the ocean, chilling with three-year-old son RZA and two-year-old son Riot Rose and posing in a green string bikini at sunset while seemingly heavily pregnant with the couple’s third child, three-month-old daughter, Rocki. In another shot, Rihanna sits in the grass with one of the babies while wearing a pink bikini and smiles as she walks by a pool while carrying Riot Rose on her hip and holding RZA’s hand.
There are also throwback pics of Rihanna’s frequent trips back home to participate in the nation’s Carnival-like annual Crop Over Festival, including several in which she is wearing a traditional bejeweled, skin-baring costume, a toast snap of two hands holding delicious tropical drinks inside coconut shells and a tribute to the beloved Snowcone Man.
