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Pregnant Beyonce: Baby Pictures Will Remain Private

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UPDATE-Beyonce is still pregnant despite the many rumors of the New Year’s Eve arrival of her baby boy or girl.

Ever since Beyonce, 30, performed “Love On Top” at the VMA’s   back in August where she threw the mic down, opened her Dolce and Gabbana shiny tux and rubbed her belly, the rumor mill has been non-stop! Is she really pregnant? Does she have a surrogate? When is she due? She doesn’t look that pregnant. Has she given birth yet?

Beyonce being pre- televised appearance on Dick Clark’s New Eve’s special took the latest rumor of her giving birth into over drive. In true Beyonce and Jay-Z fashion, a very pregnant Beyonce and her rapper-mogul husband trumped all baby arrival stories by enjoying a dinner date at Buttermilk Channel in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve. To further squash the rumors Solange Knowles tweeted Beyonce was the hottest pregnant woman she knows.

As Beyonce covers the February issue of French Glamour (in her trademark gold hue) wearing a sequin mini Roberto Cavalli dress, all of publication world is racing to get first dibs on the power couple’s first child.

“They are one of the most private couples,” one magazine editor told the Huff Post. “We have made several offers to their people about running exclusive images of mother and baby and no one has responded.”

Beyonce and Jay-Z have made no secret about how secretive they are. They have never said they were dating, though they were married four years ago. In a world where celebrities are quick to sell their souls and first baby pictures, the Carters are just not the type to negotiate nor is their $700 million joint net worth hurting for any extra zeros.

“If Beyonce and Jay-Z do decide to share their child with the world, they will probably go the same route as Tom Cruise and Katie [Holmes],” the editor explains. “Instead of selling the images to a weekly publication, they would give them away for nothing to lock in a cover of a monthly like Vanity Fair. But knowing this couple, it is unlikely we will ever see a staged picture of the child.”

For now, Beyonce pregnant pictures will have to suffice for the masses because baby pictures in your latest tabloid magazine seems like a for sure no.

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