Pregnant Beyoncé strips NAKED to show off her baby bump in intimate snaps after announcing she is expecting twins

In her stunning announcement, Beyonce posed in just a bra and underwear with her bump on show in an Instagram snap posted on Wednesday.

She added a caption which read: 'We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. - The Carters.'

After stunning fans with the news, she will now no doubt stun the masses once more with her huge share of life with the world famous family. 

In one of the boldest snaps from the onslaught, the stunning star posed totally naked while gazing intensely into the camera, in an image inspired by Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus painting.  

Beyonce enlisted the help of adorable daughter for a number of the shots, as the tot kissed the bare bump in a stunning shot shared by the delighted mum-to-be. 

As she slipped underwater, the Lemonade hitmaker protected her modesty with just delicate sheaths of material while cradling her stomach once more. 

It seems the songstress has been documenting her baby journey intimately, as she managed to post a number of shots throughout her pregnancy. 

Away from the present, Beyonce also gave fans a rare insight into their life particularly when she shared a series of images of her bump throughout her pregnancy with Blue. 

Nine years after their wedding, which has previously been closely guarded, the stunning star posted a sweet image of the duo walking away from saying their vows. 

Looking phenomenal in a strapless white gown with intricate pleats and a boned bustier, the loved-up beauty threw her arms in the air in exultation while Jay Z clutched her hand and beamed at his new wife's happiness. 

The happy family were also snapped together at Barack Obama's inauguration in 2012, where the songstress had the honour of belting out the national anthem. 

Aside from the various images, Beyonce also shared a poem reading: 'Mother is a cocoon where cells spark, limbs form...

'Mother swells and stretches to protect her child, mother has one foot in this world and one foot in the next, mother, black venus.' 

One of the intimate snaps showed Beyonce with her hair in wild natural curls, while she snuggled under a duvet and captioned the shot: 'Morning sickness with Blue'.  

In the announcement shot shared to her Instagram, choice of a blue panties and a pink bra lead fans to speculate she's expecting a boy and a girl.

Rihanna, Rita Ora and Brie Larson were among the first celebrities to congratulate the star and her husband Jay-Z over social media.

The Single Ladies singer, who has kept out of the spotlight in recent months, and the rapper are already parents to five-year-old Blue Ivy.

In 2013, Beyonce revealed she had suffered a miscarriage prior to the arrival of her daughter.  

She said at the time: 'About two years ago, I was pregnant for the first time. And I heard the heartbeat, which was the most beautiful music I ever heard in my life.

'I picked out names. I envisioned what my child would look like. I was feeling very maternal.

'I flew back to New York to get my check up - and no heartbeat. Literally the week before I went to the doctor, everything was fine, but there was no heartbeat.

'I went into the studio and wrote the saddest song I've ever written in my life. And it was actually the first song I wrote for my album. 

'And it was the best form of therapy for me, because it was the saddest thing I've ever been through.' 

(The track is called Heartbeat. Jay-Z also briefly referenced the miscarriage in his song Glory.)

Beyonce was thrilled when she discovered she was expecting Blue Ivy and found it hard to keep the news to herself to begin with. 

Speaking in her TV show Life Is But a Dream, Beyonce said: 'Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. 

'There's no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you, so of course you want to scream it out and tell everyone.'

Shortly after welcoming Blue Ivy, she revealed she wanted more children, telling US Vogue: 'When I was younger, there were moments where I said, "I'm not going to have children", and then there were moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.'  

She sent the internet into overdrive at the end of April last year with the release of her hour-long visual album Lemonade in which she hinted her spouse had been cheating on her with a woman named Becky.

In one track, Sorry, Beyoncé sang: 'Looking at my watch he should have been home/ I regret the day I put that ring on/ He always got them f***ing excuses/ He only want me when I'm not on there / He better call Becky with the good hair.' 

By the end of the album, the pair - who have been rocked with affair allegations for years - have seemingly patched up their differences and prepared to give their marriage another go.

However, although many fans were quick to lash out at the rapper for his alleged behaviour, some people branded it a publicity stunt to rake in cash.