Rihanna Tells Elle UK That She’s Scared of Her Mommy

Watching Rihanna’s outrageous antics from week to week, sometimes it’s hard to believe the R&B diva ever listens to her mommy.

But Rihanna just admitted to Elle UK that her mother Monica Fenty tears into her when the “Diamonds” singer posts inappropriate photos on the Internet.

“I’m not afraid of any person in this world but my mother, I’m terrified of her!” Rihanna, 25, told the magazine. “She called me two days ago and reeled me in about two naked pictures [my friend] Melissa put up on Instagram, a sneak peek from a photo book she’s making about me.”

“She went crazy on me, I was like, embarrassed,” she continued. “I felt like I got my a– whipped in front of my class at school! She humbled the f–k out of me.”

But apparently Mommy’s words went in the proverbial ear and out the other. Just this past Wednesday, Rihanna was at it again, posting a shot of herself from behind, wearing a thong and no top. Rihanna shared the picture with her 5.6 million followers on Instagram.

“Gotcha bitch tip toeing on my marble flo’!!!” she wrote in the caption for the shot, in which she’s wearing a thong and thigh-high boots. “Sick a– custom Prada boots! Miuccia you RULE!!! Thank you.”

Rihanna kicked off her 27-city tour this week with a concert at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York, where she showed off her body in a series of sexy costumes, including a dazzling leather bustier outfit, a black blouse with thigh-high boots, a red dress that exposed her mid-section, and a see-through long black top with white heeled boots.

After the show Rihanna said on Twitter, “#BUFFALO I will never forget how you made me feel tonight!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! #1Love always.”

 

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