Beyoncé Shares Pregnancy News Of Instagram ; Makes Record Of Most Liked Picture

By Sona Kadam on February 2, 2017 at 12:40 PM

Yes you read it right. Beyonce is pregnant and this time, she’s expecting twins with her husband, rap mogul Jay Z. Beyoncé, the cultural and music powerhouse, dropped the news in an Instagram post on Wednesday afternoon with a picture showing her cradling a baby bump.

She shared the picture writing “We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. – The Carters”

We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. – The Carters

A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Feb 1, 2017 at 10:39am PST

And this picture was not like any other picture. The Instagram post itself has gone wild, skyrocketing to become the most liked image on the photo-sharing platform of all time and claiming the Guinness World Record. In under eight hours, the photo, in which a pregnant Bey cradles her belly in front of a profusion of flowers, shot to 7,193,759 likes. At time of writing, after 10 hours, it was at 6,954,225 likes, and over 350,000 comments.

Beyoncé’s announcement of her pregnancy with daughter Blue Ivy Carter at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards also broke social media records, generating the most Tweets per second (8,868) of any event to date.

And as the news of her pregnancy break reacting started coming. here are some of the best from social media.

Me sneaking into Beyoncé's baby shower pic.twitter.com/y6LVggAZ2X

— X (@hoodopulence) February 1, 2017

BEYONCÉ PREGNANT SO THAT MEAN THE WHOLE HIVE PREGNANT! CONGRATS, FELLOW BEES! pic.twitter.com/TL0R7ma47h

— Aureius ⚡️ (@Bad_Beyhavior) February 1, 2017