When you announce your birth with an art-directed photoshoot where you are kneeling before an altar of flowers to yourself, it's only natural that people will be counting the minutes until the chosen ones' arrival.
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It's little wonder that the Beyhive are on high alert.
The internet was already abuzz with rumours that Beyonce and her husband Jay Z had jettisoned the blow-up paddling pool usually associated with home births in favour of a custom maternity ward in their home to the tune of around $1.6 million. But now "sources" and "insiders" have been drip-feeding whispers that The Arrival has already happened.
Meanwhile the former president, Barack Obama, might have inadvertently revealed the sex of the twins in a video message to Jay Z following his induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this week.
"Mr Carter and I understand each other," Obama says at the thirty second-ish mark. "Nobody who met us as younger men would have expected us to be where we are today. We know what it's like to not have a father around, we know what it's like not to come from much, and to know people who didn't get the same breaks we did, so we try to prop open those doors of opportunity so that it's a little easier for those who come up behind us to succeed."
And then this bombshell:
"Jay and I are also fools for our daughters, although he's going to have me beat once those two twins show up."
Gender Reveal done by Obama ???????????????? https://t.co/bzox9IVW0D??? Daddys Girl ???? (@_BrittaniBytch) June 16, 2017
BEYONC?? IS IN LABOR !! I REPEAT BEYONC?? IS IN LABOR pic.twitter.com/k4b9d2YD3c??? okay soo (@bru_jeria_) June 14, 2017
Folk are reporting that Queen Mother, Queen Beyonce is in labor.
I'm not ready for White Lotus and Purple Reign.
The Beyhive has grown pic.twitter.com/7KeCrE8G72??? George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) June 14, 2017
Without official confirmation in the form of a dramatic photoshoot, or at the very least a press release, it makes sense that the rumours have gone into overdrive - such as the one that the birth will be livestreamed as a publicity stunt for Jay Z's venture, Tidal.
the beyonc?? birth livestream is probably a tidal exclusive??? Elliott Desai (@elliottdesai) June 15, 2017
And that Bey gave birth to the twins on June 14 to purposefully and forever overshadow President Donald Trump's day of birth.
The twins were born yesterday bc @Beyonce wanted to prove to Donald Trump who has power.??? Love Drought ???? (@ohthats_Her) June 15, 2017
Or perhaps the best one, that Beyonce timed the birth of twins to finally put a stop to the Gemini slander the world so enthusiastically heaps on (we're not all two-faced, people!).
????BEYONC?? IS GIVING BIRTH TO TWO GEMINIS SO GEMINI SLANDER IS OFFICIALLY OUT OF SEASON PICK ANOTHER SIGN TO THROW UR UNWARRANTED HATE AT BYE??? kari cat. (@KARIFAUX) May 21, 2017
So as the internet works itself into a tizzy and the Beyhive Do Not Rest, guess we all just wait and try not to be the friends who text heavily pregnant women who are sick and tired of everything to ask: "any news?"