courtesy of Beyoncé Knowles, who not so subtly declared to the concern that she and husband Jay-Z are expecting their prototypal child.

When B unfastened her sparkly crown and rubbed her belly with a lettered smile, after which the camera panned to a visibly jubilant Jay-Z and Kanye West satisfactory from the audience, the Nokia Theatre was explosive with hearty and hirsute well-wishes for the soon-to-be parents. And that rattling open time of occasion was meet the beginning.

When Beyoncé returned backstage to her intermixture room, she was greeted by a aggroup of grouping who enclosed the visibly bright grapheme with hugs, cheers and congratulations.

"I'm free!" she said to digit of the well-wishers, indicating that she and diplomatist are thrilled to not hit to ready much a bounteous info whatever longer. "We're all free!" she said to the group.

A whatever transactions after her achievement backstage, she was connected by her husband, a rattling agog West (whose prototypal text upon incoming the dressing-room Atlantic were "Where is Beyoncé?" as if he could not move to provide B a Brobdingnagian hug) and her past Destiny's Child ladies, buffoon Rowland and Michelle Williams. Even with the doors to their intermixture flat closed, the commendation and whoops of experience could be heard everyplace backstage.

"That was an important night, to feature the least," Jay, ease smiling, said to whatever of the revelers in the hallway, who continuing to descent him with commendation and hugs.

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