Biggest Takeaways From Beyonce’s Vogue September Issue

Beyonce's Vogue September Issue
Beyonce’s September issue is a historic one for Vogue

In a strange, unprecedented twist, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour relinquished creative control of her last September issue to popstar Beyonce.

As we’ve previously reported, Beyonce had complete oversight over the photographer, photos used, captions which she wrote and she also refused to give a proper interview.

Here are the major takeaways, mostly revealed through Beyonce’s captions, which she wrote herself. Read on for the biggest highlights of Beyonce’s Vogue September Issue, which you can read in full here.

On her body post childbirth: Beyonce is being much kinder to her body after her second round of childbirth. The singer reveals that she put a ton of pressure on herself after the birth of Blue Ivy to get back into shape in just three months. After the birth of her twins, she is embracing her changed body and even her “FUPA” (her words). At the time of the birth of her twins, she weighed 218 pounds. “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.”

On Diversity: Beyonce says that when she started in the industry she was told it would be hard to get on magazine covers because black people didn’t sell magazines. She has used her influence to help change that stigma, which is why she chose to work with a 23-year-old African American photographer on her shoot. She also used her natural hair instead of wigs and extensions, she says. The photographer, Tyler mitchell, is the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover in the magazine’s history. “If people in powerful positions continue to hire and cast only people who look like them, sound like them, come from the same neighborhoods they grew up in, they will never have a greater understanding of experiences different from their own,” she says.

On female empowerment: Beyonce writes that she wants her two daughters to “see themselves as CEOs, as bosses, and that they know they can write the script for their own lives—that they can speak their minds and they have no ceiling.” She also says this extends to her son, who she wants to be brave and strong, but also sensitive and kind,.

On infidelity: So, she doesn’t explicitly call out her husband Jay-Z for cheating, but she makes a reference that could be pointing in that direction. In a caption about pain and failure she says, “I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m grateful for every scar. I have experienced betrayals and heartbreaks in many forms.”

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