Inside Blue Ivy Carter’s Insanely Fabulous Life

Because having reached almost each achievement an individual can seize, Beyoncé has begun to deal with her legacy, the roads she will create for her children and others like them. “Success looks different to me now. Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else,” she mused to Elle. “Then I had Blue, and the quest for my purpose became so much deeper. I died and was reborn in my relationship, and the quest for self became even stronger.”

So she approaches every new problem with this in thoughts, turning her headlining gig at 2018’s Coachella, for instance, into an unabashed celebration of African American tradition. 

“As a black woman, I used to feel like the world wanted me to stay in my little box and black women often feel underestimated. I wanted us to be proud of not only the show, but the process, proud of the struggle, thankful for the beauty that comes with a painful history and rejoice in the pain, rejoice in the imperfections and the wrongs that are so damn right,” she defined in her Netflix doc. “I wanted everyone to feel grateful for their curves, their sass, their honesty, thankful for their freedom. It was no rules and we were able to create a free, safe space where none of us were marginalized.”