06:18 PM EDT 05/26/2012
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Beyoncé Is 'Nervous' About Performing Post-Motherhood
Originally posted 05/25/2012 12:35PM
Jay-Z has decided to put his career on hold a bit for daughter Blue Ivy Carter, but for new mom Beyoncé, the show must go on.
"I'm back to work," the pop diva, 30, says in a video showing the process leading up to her return to the stage Memorial Day weekend at Revel resort in Atlantic City, N.J. "I'm back to business."
But the brief hiatus from her career that she's taken since giving birth does make her feel mixed emotions about returning to the stage.
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Jay-Z: I'd Rather Hang Out with Blue than Hit the Studio
Originally posted 05/15/2012 05:00PM
"I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter. I want to enjoy this time for what it is."
•Jay-Z tells Billboard that he won't be heading back into the studio any time soon – he'd rather be with 4-month-old Blue Ivy, his daughter with wife Beyoncé.
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Beyoncé, Jessica Biel – & Tim Tebow – Stun at the Met Gala
Originally posted 05/08/2012 08:30AM
It was a night of gowns, glitz and glamour for red carpet regulars, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Heidi Klum, and fresher faces. Like Tim Tebow.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala boasted an A-List guest list (as usual) Monday night in New York, where football quarterbacks and big-screen stars alike dressed to impress.
Also flocking to Fifth Avenue to celebrate the museum's latest fashion exhibit, which features the designs of Miuccia Prada and the late Elsa Schiaparelli: Scarlett Johansson, January Jones and Eva Mendes, as Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour played host in a white Prada gown.
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Beyoncé Does Her Own Makeup – and Cuts Her Own Hair
Originally posted 05/06/2012 06:30PM
Beyoncé remembers first trying makeup when she was 6 years old.
"I was playing in my mother's makeup," she tells PEOPLE. "I had blue eye shadow and red lips, and I put crazy blush on. I looked like a clown, but I thought I was so beautiful."
Her routine has come a long way since then – the singer often does her own makeup for appearances – but her love for the basics remains.
Asked what she wears to look awake after sleepless nights spent with baby Blue, she replies, "Lip gloss – I love L'Oréal's Infallible 8 HR Le Gloss in Coral Sands – and a little bit of blush."
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Jay-Z: Blue Ivy Carter Will Probably Be the 'Worst, Spoiled Little Kid Ever'
Originally posted 05/05/2012 04:15PM
Blue Ivy Carter is going to grow to be one lucky lady.
Not only was she born to power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z, but if her dad, 42, has his way, she's going to get whatever she wants.
"I imagine I'll take things I learned from my mom and things I've learned from raising my nephews and apply that," the rapper says in a clip from Oprah's Master Class: Special Edition, which airs Sunday on OWN at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
"Then at the end of the day, I just know I'll probably have the worst, spoiled little kid ever."
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Beyoncé: How I Prepared for Blue's Birth
Originally posted 05/01/2012 08:30AM
When she arrived at the hospital last January, Beyoncé came with the best of intentions for her daughter's delivery.
"I did have a fresh eyebrow wax," PEOPLE's 2012 Most Beautiful Woman says with a laugh.
"I got my nails done, I got my feet done, had my hair done, and I had my little lip gloss."
But, in the end, Blue Ivy's birth trumped all the new mom's primping and prepping to meet her baby girl.
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Motherhood Makes Beyoncé Feel 'More Beautiful Than Ever'
Originally posted 04/25/2012 07:50AM
She's an entertainment force of nature, 16-time Grammy winner, and beauty and style icon. But Beyoncé is proudest of one title that also happens to be her most recent: mommy to little Blue Ivy Carter.
"I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth," says PEOPLE's 2012 World's Most Beautiful Woman. "I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth."
The "Crazy in Love" singer, 30, and her husband of four years, Jay-Z, 42, have gone gaga for Blue, born Jan. 7 in New York City. "She's just the cutest thing," gushes Beyoncé, who croons one-of-a-kind tunes to her daughter and professes to "love" changing diapers.
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Beyoncé Knowles Goes Dancing in N.Y.C.
Originally posted 04/23/2012 07:30PM
Even new moms have to get their dance on! And Beyoncé did just that Friday night. She joined younger sister Solange and two female friends for a girls' night out at New York City's W.I.P. nightclub. The quartet let loose on the dance floor and jived to the club's mix of disco, '90s and hip-hop music.
"Beyoncé looked amazing and was having a great time with her friends," an onlooker tells PEOPLE. "She was very laid back, smiling and in a great mood."
Off the dance floor, Beyoncé, who gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter just three and a half months ago, chatted and shared some laughs with her pals while sipping on vodka drinks at a corner VIP booth. At one point, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. came to the table to say hello. The girls night out wrapped up around 3 a.m.
– Paul Chi
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Adele, Tim Tebow, Barack Obama Make Time's 100 Most Influential People
Originally posted 04/18/2012 02:45PM
World leaders, singers, TV personalities – who influences you?
According to Time magazine, which on Wednesday released its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, U.S. President Barack Obama, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, North Korea's Kim Jong are in the mix, along with Kristin Wiig, Chelsea Handler, Adele, Rihanna, Matt Lauer, Stephen Colbert, Claire Danes and Mitt Romney.
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Beyoncé's Hair-Raising Jet Ski Ride
Originally posted 04/11/2012 10:35AM
Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z may have brought baby Blue Ivy with them on their Caribbean vacation, but that doesn't mean the new mom can't let her hair down – or up, as the case may be.
The singer seemed delighted during a solo jet ski outing earlier this week, and struck a pose for Jay-Z, who was snapping pictures on the beach, by holding her ponytailed hair high above her head.
After giving birth to Blue Ivy in January, Beyoncé has been enjoying some well-deserved family vacation time before getting back to work with concerts scheduled for Memorial Day weekend in Atlantic City.
– Liz Raftery
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