Not even royal babies met a fanfare quite like Beyonce's first pregnancy.
The US pop star has a notoriously private marriage with rapper Jay Z, and the pair seldom give fans a glimpse inside their world unless it's through their music.
But in an ultra-public move, the now 40-year-old revealed she was expecting at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, showing off her bump at the end of her performance Love on Top.
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It became the show's most-watched broadcast in MTV history, and was listed in Guinness World Records for "most tweets per second recorded for a single event" on Twitter.