Beyonce opens up her difficult pregnancy and remarkable recovery from an emergency C-section jut 10 months before her iconic 2018 Coachella performance in her new documentary, Homecoming
Beyonce has revealed the harrowing pregnancy complications she suffered while carrying and delivering her twins, Rumi and Sir, in her new documentary, Homecoming.
The singer opened up about the terror of preeclampsia and of one of her babies' hearts stopping in the womb in the new Netflix film, which dropped at midnight on Wednesday.
Her preeclampsia meant that Beyonce's blood pressure climbed dangerously high, a potentially life-threatening complication that is 60 percent more common in black women in the US than white women.
The new documentary includes new details about the life-threatening difficulties the 37-year-old star while carrying twins just months before the iconic 2018 Coachella performance that Homecoming documents.
Beyonce had actually planned on performing at Coachella in 2017, but that all changed when she got pregnant with Rumi and Sir, she revealed in Homecoming.
In the film, she explains that one of her goals in making the highly-anticipated film was to show black women that they could 'be proud not only of the show but the process.'
She continues: 'Proud of the the struggle, thankful for the beauty that comes with a painful history and rejoice in the pain, rejoice in the imperfections and the wrongs that are so damn right.'
Beyonce's bold statement could apply to her last pregnancy, its trials and the changes her body went through, too.
Sir and Rumi had to be delivered by emergency C-section, a major surgery that Beyonce had to recover from in just 10 months before her 2018 Coachella performance
'My body went through more than I knew it could,' she says in Homecoming.
While Beyonce's first pregnancy with Blue Ivy was relatively straightforward, the second was anything but.
'I had an extremely difficult pregnancy,' she says.
'I developed toxemia, preeclampsia and in the womb, one of my babies' heartbeat paused a few times, so I had to get an
