Rihanna pictured for FIRST TIME since giving birth – Daily Mail

Rihanna has been pictured for the first time since welcoming her first child with beau A$AP Rocky last week.

The 34-year-old singer was pictured dressed looking casually as she was seen going for a stroll in West Hollywood on Wednesday, following news had her baby boy on May 13.

The Rude Boy hitmaker still looked effortlessly stylish as ever, with her hair tied up into a top knot, wearing designer shades and gold jewelry around her neck. 

While the singer had become known for her wildly revealing maternity outfits, it looks as though the new mother is now easing into some more comfortable attire. 

The Barbados-born beauty wore an oversized grey sweater and baggy black trousers as she was accompanied to her car by security.

She also ditched her love of heels for a pair of simple black ballet pumps. 

The Savage x Fenty designer and the 33-year-old DMB singer have yet to confirm the baby’s arrival and the site did not yet have news on a name. 

The last time the cover girl was seen out in public was on May 9 when she left Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California with Rocky by her side after a romantic Italian dinner. 

According to People, the star is at her home in Los Angeles resting with the baby.

‘Rihanna is doing well. They are very excited to be parents. Rihanna is already a wonderful mom,’ said the site’s source.

This is a first child for both Rihanna and A$AP who have been romantically linked for two years after several years of friendship.

It was speculated that they secretly wed or perhaps got engaged as Rocky wore a Marry Me grill in his music video for DMB (Dat My B*tch) and she had on a red wedding dress with veil for a mock wedding.

News that Rihanna was dating longtime friend A$AP broke in January 2020 following her split from Hassan Jameel, whom she dated for almost three years.

Rihanna and A$AP were also romantically linked in 2013 for a brief period when she appeared in his music video for Fashion Killa.

In January of this year she revealed she was pregnant when she stepped out with Rocky in Harlem, NYC, where he grew up.

She looked proud while presenting her baby bump as she had her long hot pink jacket pulled back to expose her tummy.  

As far as being pregnant, she told Vogue’s May 2022 issue it did not slow her down.

‘None of the dials are turned down,’ she told the fashion bible. ‘I think I even say yes to more now because I know it will be different on the other side of this. At first I expected some magical change, but really I remain who I am.’ 

The star will have a lot to juggle now that she is a mom. She has her singing career, her makeup line and her lingerie brand.

She said: ‘Balance is one of my biggest challenges and always has been. And now there’s another human being coming into play, it changes what that means again.

‘Still, I have businesses that aren’t going to run themselves. My mom handled the three of us with not even close to the amount of resources that I have, so I can absolutely do it.’

During her pregnancy Rihanna had a habit of showing her bare belly when hitting the town, often modeling bikini tops, bras or crop tops so as to not cover her midsection.

‘Fashion is one of my favorite things, so, you know, we’re defying what it even means to be pregnant and maternal. It can get uncomfortable at times and so you can dress the part and pretend,’ she told Entertainment Tonight.

And she shared with People: ‘I’m enjoying not having to worry about covering up my tummy. If I feel a little chubby, it’s like, whatever! It’s a baby!’

Rocky has been involved in some legal trouble this spring. 

The rapper – born Rakim Athelaston Mayers – was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department in connection with a November 2021 shooting in Hollywood.

He was taken into custody right after he and Rihanna returned from their vacation in Barbados on April 20.

The musician posted his $550,000 bail and was photographed being released from a Los Angeles jail that same day – just hours after he was arrested at LAX.

Los Angeles police were investigating Mayers after a man claimed the rapper shot him in the area of Selma and Argyle Avenues following an argument.

Mayers is accused of approaching an acquaintance on the street around 10:15pm on November 6 and firing a handgun at him three or four times.

One of the bullets reportedly grazed the victim’s left hand and he later sought medical treatment.

After the alleged shooting Mayers and two other men, who he had reportedly been walking with, fled the scene.

Authorities collaborated with the victim and were ultimately able to name Mayers as a suspect in the shooting.

Both Rihanna and A$AP have a rich dating history. 

Rihanna famously dated singer Chris Brown, who beat her after an argument in 2009. She has also been linked to Matt Kemp and Karim Benzema.

Brown, 33, took to his Instagram an hour after the news broke to congratulate his ex-girlfriend and her partner on their bundle of joy.

‘Congratulations,’ he wrote on his Stories, adding a pregnant woman emoji as well as the prayer hands and red heart symbols.

Rocky has been linked to Keeping Up With The Kardashians star and supermodel Kendall Jenner. And he also dated French adult actress Sophie Brussaux AKA Rosee Divine, Love & Hip Hop: New York star Tahiry Jose, model Chanel Iman and Rita Ora.