Beyonce took to Instagram on August 10th to share the shoot with her 203m followers. And Queen Bey posed for not one, but three covers for the magazine’s “The Icon” issue.
The feature focused on Beyonce’s evolution over the course of her two decades in the industry. She told Harper’s Bazaar: “My 30s were about digging deeper. In 2013, I started BeyGOOD to share the mentality that we could all do something to help others, something my parents instilled in me from a young age—to inspire others to be kind, to be charitable, and to be good. We focused on many areas of need, including hurricane relief, education with scholarships to colleges and universities in the U.S., a fellowship program in South Africa, women’s rights, support of minority businesses, assisting families with housing needs, water crises, pediatric health care, and pandemic relief.”
And if there’s one takeaway that we loved the most, it might be just how empowered Beyoncé is today.
She shared, “I’ve spent so many years trying to better myself and improve whatever I’ve done that I’m at a point where I no longer need to compete with myself. I have no interest in searching backwards. The past is the past. I feel many aspects of that younger, less evolved Beyoncé could never f*** with the woman I am today. Haaa!”