On August 28, 2011 at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce Knowles announced that she and Jay-Z are expecting their first child. Beyonce made the announcement during her red carpet appearance and again at the end of her performance of " Love on Top ". The Huffington Post later confirmed that Knowles is 5 months pregnant and her pregnancy announcement had broken the "most tweets per second recorded for a single event" Twitter record, receiving 8,868 tweets per second.
MTV reported that Beyoncé Knowles
' performance of "Love on Top" and the announcement of her pregnancy at the awards ceremony helped the 2011's MTV Video Music Awards become the most-watched broadcast in MTV history, pulling in 12.4 million viewers. In addition, data from Google Insights showed that the most searched for term from August 29, 2011 to September 4, 2011 was "Beyonce pregnant" which reached 'breakout' levels - a term used by Google to describe a search with an increase of over 5,000 percent. Beyoncé Knowles
' announcement of her pregnancy resulted in an increase in sales of her records, particularly 4 , which has sold fewer than 700,000 copies as of August 2011. In October 2011, during an appearance on the Australian television program, Sunday Night, Beyonce Knowles' pregnant belly appeared to collapse inwardly as she sat down on a chair. Following the interview, rumors then began circulating online that Knowles was faking her pregnancy and is actually wearing a prosthetic pregnant belly.
However, Beyoncé Knowles
' representative later issued a statement to ABC News , saying that the rumors are "stupid, ridiculous and false". On October 8, a pre-taped performance of Knowles performing Michael Jackson 's " I Wanna Be Where You Are " was shown at the "Michael Forever" tribute concert at Millenium Stadium in Cardiff , Wales .
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Beyoncé is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model.
Beyonce Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child.