Rihanna Honoured With Marble Statue At ’22 Met Gala

Oyinlola Awonuga
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Popular Barbadian songstress, Robyn Rihanna has received a lifetime honour at this year’s Met Gala as she was immortalised in a marble statue at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The statue is inspired by Rihanna’s May 2022 cover shoot for Vogue magazine in which she sported a semi-sheer lace catsuit.

The 34-year-old singer was unable to attend this year’s star-studded event as she is heavily pregnant with her first child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky.

But the Umbrella hitmaker was certainly not forgotten as a towering statue of her, complete with a baby bump, was unveiled.

The statue was shown in a video shared on Vogue’s Instagram account, which comes after Rihanna graced the cover of this month’s issue.

Rihanna also shared the video on her account and wrote: ‘shut down the met in marble! what’s more gilded than that? Lol!

‘Thank you @metmuseum and @voguemagazine for this historic tribute! y’all bad for this one!’

She also took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter to acknowledge the recognition: “Shut down the met in marble! what’s more gilded than that? Lol! Thank you for this historic tribute! y’all bad for this one.”

‘Thank you @metmuseum and @voguemagazine for this historic tribute! y’all bad for this one!’
She also took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter to acknowledge the recognition: “Shut down the met in marble! what’s more gilded than that? Lol! Thank you for this historic tribute! y’all bad for this one.”

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