Throughout her high school years, she was repeatedly bullied. You know how, when you know you did something wrong, and you deserve to get beat? This was out of nowhere.'Īt age eight, Rihanna's parents separated, and she took over caring for her younger brother, while her single mum worked full-time. My mother saw my face, how traumatised I was.

'He slapped me so hard,' she told Rolling Stone in 2011. He was occasionally violent towards Rihanna as well.

Domestic violence is not something that people want anybody to know,' she added. 'I don't want to say normal, but it wasn't a surprise when it happened. ' had a very abusive relationship,' she later told ABC News. He'd walk in the door, and it was all eyes on him.' 'Fridays would be scary because he would come home drunk,' she told Rolling Stone in 2011. Growing up, her father was an alcoholic and addict and was physically abusive towards her mother. Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20, 1988, and raised in Barbados with her two brothers. That's the only thing that can raise a child truly, is love.' Rihanna's troubled childhood. 'But the only thing that matters is happiness that's the only healthy relationship betweenĪ parent and a child. 'I feel like society makes me want to feel like, 'Oh, you got it wrong …' They diminish you as a mother if there's not a dad in your kids' lives,' said Rihanna. 'I know I will want to live differently,' she said, saying that within the next 10 years she saw herself having 'three or four' children, regardless of if she had a partner. In March 2020, she told British Vogue she was 'realising life is really short'. It's the core of who I am in spirit and DNA,' she told Essence in I came from a Black woman, who came from a Black woman, who came from a Black woman and I'm going to give birth to a Black woman. Rihanna has faced pregnancy rumours multiple times throughout her career, joking last year that 'y'all breed me every year'.

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