News June 14, 2021
Beyoncé Celebrates 4th Birthday of Twins Rumi & Sir!

Rumi and Sir Carter are another year older, another year wiser!
On Sunday, mom Beyoncé wished her twins with Jay-Z a happy birthday by writing on her website, “’What’s better than 1 gift... 2.’”
“Happy birthday Rumi & Sir,” the mother added about her daughter and son, respectively.
After their birth on June 13, 2017, the “Crazy in Love” singer famously shared the first photo of her twins a month later on Instagram while wearing a Palomo Spain outfit.
“Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today,” she captioned the artistic photo.
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In August 2017, Jay-Z — who also shares daughter Blue Ivy, 9, with Bey — explained the meaning behind Rumi and Sir’s names, telling Rap Radar hosts Elliot Wilson and Brian Miller, “Rumi is our favorite poet, so it was for our daughter. Sir was like, man, come out the gate. He carries himself like that. He just came out, like, Sir.”
Years later, in her 2019 Netflix documentary “Homecoming,” Beyoncé detailed her “extremely difficult pregnancy” with the twins.
“My body went through more than I knew it could,” she said, noting how the pregnancy affected her when she returned to work.
“I would dance and go off to the trailer and breastfeed the babies, the days I could bring the children,” Beyoncé remembered. “I’m just trying to figure out how to balance being the mother of a 6-year-old and twins that need me and giving myself creativity. Physically, it was a lot to juggle. It’s like, before I could rehearse 15 hours straight. I have children, I have a husband, I have to take care of my body.”
That year, she also opened up about motherhood in a candid interview with Elle.
“I think the most stressful thing for me is balancing work and life,” she said at the time.
“Making sure I am present for my kids — dropping Blue off at school, taking Rumi and Sir to their activities, making time for date nights with my husband, and being home in time to have dinner with my family — all while running a company can be challenging.”
In Bey’s 2020 visual album “Black Is King,” Rumi joined her mom, as well as older sister Blue and grandmother Tina Knowles Lawson for a family photo where they were dressed in matching floral dresses.

At the end of the film, Bey dedicated “Black Is King” to Sir and “to all our sons and daughters.”
Happy birthday, Rumi and Sir!