Beyonce reveals major health scare, 'survival mode' she faced giving birth to twins

Global superstar Beyonce in a first-person cover story for Vogue opens up about a major health scare she faced last year during her pregnancy and delivery of her twins, Sir and Rumi.

In a wide-ranging interview titled, “Beyoncé in Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage,” the singer and businesswoman writes about pregnancy and body acceptance, revealing for the first time that she went into “survival mode” after the birth of her twins.

The 36-year-old superstar admits that after the birth of her first child, Blue Ivy, “I believed in the things society said about how my body should look.”

“I put pressure on myself to lose all the baby weight in three months, and scheduled a small tour to assure I would do it. Looking back, that was crazy,” she writes.

In her pregnancy with the twins, the icon faced a serious health scare, she writes, “I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth to Rumi and Sir. I was swollen from toxemia and had been on bed rest for over a month. My health and my babies’ health were in danger, so I had an emergency C-section.”

Beyonce and her husband Jay Z, 48, welcomed the twins last summer.

“We spent many weeks in the NICU. My husband was a soldier and such a strong support system for me,” she continues. “I was in survival mode and did not grasp it all until months later.”

In the powerful, candid essay, Beyonce also talks about the changes her body went through after such a physical ordeal.

“After the C-section, my core felt different. It had been major surgery. Some of your organs are shifted temporarily, and in rare cases, removed temporarily during delivery. I am not sure everyone understands that. I needed time to heal, to recover,” she adds.

This is where Beyonce made sure to approach things differently than she had years prior with her first child.

“During my recovery, I gave myself self-love and self-care, and I embraced being curvier. I accepted what my body wanted to be. After six months, I started preparing for Coachella. I became vegan temporarily, gave up coffee, alcohol, and all fruit drinks. But I was patient with myself and enjoyed my fuller curves. My kids and husband did, too,” she adds.

For this particular cover shoot for Vogue, Beyonce says she stripped away “the wigs and hair extensions” and was sparse on makeup to inspire other women to embrace their natural bodies.

“To this day my arms, shoulders, breasts, and thighs are fuller. I have a little mommy pouch, and I’m in no rush to get rid of it. I think it’s real,” she writes.

But don’t for one second think Beyonce won’t “go into beast zone and work my a– off” when she’s ready to lose the added weight.