Rumi Carter Biography

The exact date when Beyoncé and Jay-Z began dating each other was not known until 2007 when Jay-Z revealed to the media that he met his significant other in 1997. The following year, Beyoncé told 'Seventeen' that she was 18 when she first met him. They had started dating a year after their first meeting.

Jay-Z dropped his single '03 Bonnie & Clyde,' featuring Beyoncé, in 2002. This was enough to fill the air with relationship rumors. The two had hidden their relationship for many years. In an interview with 'Vanity Fair,' Jay-Z said that his relationship with Beyoncé began to pace up around the time of their photo campaign for the magazine’s music issue.

Adding to their professional commitments with each other, Jay-Z featured as a rapper in Beyoncé’s single 'Crazy in Love' from her first solo album, 'Dangerously in Love,' released in 2003. The two made their official red-carpet debut as a couple, wearing matching outfits, at the MTV Video Music Awards the following year.

In the subsequent years, Jay-Z and Beyoncé collaborated on many more music projects, faced cheating rumors, and denied stories of their engagement. Following this, they finally got married in 2008, in a secret ceremony held at Jay-Z’s New York City penthouse. Three years later, Beyoncé announced her first pregnancy by flaunting her baby bump at the red carpet event of the 'MTV VMAs.' However, Beyoncé suffered a miscarriage, which she once described as "the saddest thing” that had ever happened to her. She later became pregnant in April 2011 when she, along with Jay Z, was in Paris shooting for her fourth album, ‘4.’ The couple later welcomed their first child, Blue Ivy Carter, in January 2012.

Beyoncé’s second pregnancy was revealed in February 2017, when she posted an Instagram photo cradling her baby bump. The picture became an internet sensation overnight and broke all records for the number of likes and comments on the platform (over 6.3 million "likes" within 8 hours). She was 5 months pregnant at the time. The picture later became the most-liked Instagram photo of 2017, and till January 2018, it held the title of the most-liked Instagram picture ever. As soon as the picture was published, Beyoncé fans showered their warm wishes on her and deluged her with queries on the baby’s gender. Beyoncé did not reveal the gender immediately. Instead, she gave some hints and clues for her fans to guess the gender of the baby. The mystery was unveiled after Beyoncé posted a pair of earrings as a clue.

Beyoncé came to know that she was expecting in late 2016. Though she performed at the 'Grammy Awards' during her pregnancy, in February 2017, she had to cancel her 2017 'Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival' schedule due to complications related to her pregnancy.

Rumi and her twin brother, Sir, were born on June 13, 2017, at 5:13 am local time at the 'Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center,' in Los Angeles, California. Their elder sister, Blue Ivy Carter, was born in 2012. Beyoncé and Jay bought a huge baby collection worth £130 thousand from the luxurious baby brand 'Suommo' for their twin children.

On July 13, 2017, Beyoncé uploaded the first image of her twins on her Instagram page. The picture was as popular as the one posted during her pregnancy and became the second most-liked post on Instagram of the time. The photo was clicked by Mason Poole, as confirmed by her representative. The post also revealed the names of the twins. Rumi is named after 13th-century Persian poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, who is hailed as one of the most famous poets in the US.

The September 2018 issue of 'Vogue' published an article about Beyoncé’s pregnancy and its aftermath. In her 'Netflix' documentary, 'Homecoming,' Beyoncé got candid about her second pregnancy and the complications and challenges she faced returning to the stage after her delivery. Beyoncé developed preeclampsia due to her pregnancy. Also known as toxemia, it is a pregnancy condition that leads to high blood pressure and massive weight gain. At the time of the twins’ delivery, she weighed 218 lbs. During the final stage of Beyoncé’s pregnancy, media channels spread some nasty rumors of her getting lip fillers, which her representative later denied. Apparently, her pregnancy complications had made her lips look plumper.

The delivery, too, was painful, as the heartbeat of one of the twins in the womb had paused for a few seconds. Hence, the doctors suggested an emergency C-section. After the delivery, Rumi and Sir were kept under phototherapy treatment to eliminate high levels of bilirubin in their blood. They were both at high risk of contracting Jaundice. Despite having such a painful and complicated pregnancy and delivery, Beyoncé made a grand return with 'Coachella,' the event she had canceled the previous year.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z filed documents to trademark Rumi and Sir’s names, which means that the names can be used by them for branding a variety of products in the future. However, the power couple rarely shares photos of their children and prefers keeping them away from the media. Despite this, one can find the children’s pictures on Beyoncé’s social-media pages. In July 2018, Beyoncé published a few pictures of her and Jay-Z with Rumi and Sir in Europe while they were on a tour break. The same year, Beyoncé shared several pictures of her children while they were on a trip to India. Rumi Carter made her first screen appearance in the 2020 American musical film ‘Black Is King.’ The film was written, directed, and produced (executive producer) by Beyoncé and opened to massive critical acclaim, earning a 94% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes.