Pop superstar Beyonce announced on Instagram that she and her husband, rap star and entrepreneur Jay Z, were expecting twins.
This has sent the social media into a meltdown.
The announcement came with a photo of the “Crazy in Love” singer posing in lingerie and a veil, with a noticeable baby bump.
The news became the top trending item on Twitter with more than 500,000 tweets in the first hour.
The birth of the couple’s first baby, Blue Ivy, caused a paparazzi storm in 2012 with New York’s Lenox Hill hospital shutting down part of its maternity wing to accommodate music’s royal couple.
Beyonce did not say when the twins were due to be born, nor did she give any details about her pregnancy.
Beyonce has a leading nine nominations at the Grammy Awards mostly for “Lemonade,” and would be expected to perform.
She is also due to headline a concert at the Coachella music festival in southern California in April.
