Beyonce, 35, announced she is expecting twins with her husband Jay Z in an Instagram post on Wednesday
The couple have been married for nine years and share a five-year-old daughter Blue Ivy
On Thursday, the Crazy In Love hitmaker shared an influx of private snaps on her website, giving a rare and intimate insight into the family’s life
Captioned the series of shots with: ‘I have three hearts’, while stripping off to show her growing bump
The post is now the most-liked picture ever on Instagram with 8.2M likes – overtaking Selena Gomez’s famous Coca Cola picture
She delightedly announced her pregnancy just hours before.
And Beyonce, who is expecting twins, shared an intimate insight into her pregnancy atop life with her husband Jay Z and five-year-old daughter Blue Ivy in an onslaught of personal snaps shared to her website on Thursday.
The 35-year-old songstress posted the images with the caption: ‘I have three hearts’ emblazoned across, in reference to her two babies, while giving a rare glimpse into her wedding day, holidays with her family and stunning behind the scenes shots of her life. 
Hold me tight: Wow! Beyonce, who is expecting twins, shared an intimate insight into her pregnancy atop life with her husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy in an onslaught of personal snaps shared to her website on Thursday
In her stunning announcement on Wednesday, Beyonce posed in just a bra and knickers in an ethereal shot while surrounded by flowers and cradling her bump in an Instagram post.
She added a caption, reading: ‘We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. – The Carters.’
Within eight hours of the announcement, Beyonce’s picture was liked more than 6million times.
The photo now has 8.2million likes and has broken the record for the most-liked Instagram picture ever, overtaking Selena Gomez’s famous Coca-cola picture with 6.3million.
After stunning fans with the news, she will now no doubt stun the masses once more with her huge and intimate share of life with the world famous family, who have frequently been guarded in divulging personal insights.
In one of the boldest snaps, the beautiful star posed totally naked while gazing intensely into the camera, in an image inspired by Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus painting, believed to date back to the mid 1490s, and often replicated in pop culture. 
Double joy! Beyonce revealed she is pregnant with twins in a message to fans on Instagram on Wednesday. She put her bump on show while wearing just lingerie and a veil. Her choice of a blue panties and a pink bra lead fans to speculate she’s expecting a boy and a girl Kiss, kiss: Beyonce enlisted the help of adorable daughter for a number of the shots, as the tot kissed the bare bump in a stunning shot shared by the delighted mum-to-be
While surrounded by flowers and sporting a pair of tights painted with a floral detail, beside her in the image was a statue of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose name means the beautiful one has cometh forth.
Deep and meaningful: While surrounded by flowers and sporting a pair of tights painted with a floral detail, beside her in the image was a statue of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose name means the beautiful one has cometh forth
The bust, replicated in Beyonce’s image, is one of the most copied Ancient Egyptian works. The statue is an iconic mark of feminine beauty – making the addition a striking image to the layered shot. Nefertiti is one of the most recognisable and famous women of the ancient world, perhaps in a nod to Beyonce’s worldwide fame.
Beyonce enlisted the help of her adorable daughter for a number of the shots, as the tot kissed the bare bump in a striking image shared by the delighted mum-to-be.
As she slipped underwater, the Crazy In Love hitmaker protected her modesty with just delicate sheaths of material while cradling her stomach once more.
It seems the songstress has been documenting her baby journey intimately, as she managed to post a number of shots throughout her pregnancy thus far.
One image saw Beyonce sit atop a red car, in a setting reminiscent to her video for 2016 hit Formation, a track from her controversial album Lemonade, in which she was seen draping herself out of a blue car while spinning around.
Away from the present, Beyonce also gave fans a rare insight into the Carter’s life – particularly when she shared a series of images of her bump throughout her pregnancy with Blue.
Beyonce goes NAKED to show off her twins bump and says she now has ‘three hearts’
