<p class="title">Pop star Beyonce has revealed that she descended from a slave owner who had married a slave.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In an interview with the Vogue, whose September Issue cover she appears on, the 36-year-old singer said she researched about her family history after the birth of her twins -- Rumi and Sir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave. I had to process that revelation over time. I questioned what it meant and tried to put it into perspective," Beyonce said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I now believe it's why God blessed me with my twins. Male and female energy was able to coexist and grow in my blood for the first time. I pray that I am able to break the generational curses in my family and that my children will have less complicated," she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The "Formation" hitmaker also said that her family has a "lineage of broken male-female relationships, abuse of power, and mistrust".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Only when I saw that clearly was I able to resolve those conflicts in my own relationship. Connecting to the past and knowing our history makes us both bruised and beautiful," she said, alluding to her husband Jay-Z's extra-marital transgressions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The singer also talked about her pregnancy and body acceptance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After the birth of my first child, I believed in the things society said about how my body should look. I put pressure on myself to lose all the baby weight in three months, and scheduled a small tour to assure I would do it. Looking back, that was crazy."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth to Rumi and Sir. I was swollen from toxemia and had been on bed rest for over a month," Beyonce said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She said the twins were born through an emergency caesarian section and after their birth she resisted pressure to follow "the things society said about how my body should look".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After the C-section, my core felt different. It had been major surgery. Some of your organs are shifted temporarily, and in rare cases, removed temporarily during delivery. I am not sure everyone understands that. I needed time to heal, to recover. During my recovery, I gave myself self-love and self-care, and I embraced being curvier. I accepted what my body wanted to be," Beyonce said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After six months, I started preparing for Coachella. I became vegan temporarily, gave up coffee, alcohol, and all fruit drinks. But I was patient with myself and enjoyed my fuller curves. My kids and husband did, too," she added. </p>
<p class="title">Pop star Beyonce has revealed that she descended from a slave owner who had married a slave.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In an interview with the Vogue, whose September Issue cover she appears on, the 36-year-old singer said she researched about her family history after the birth of her twins -- Rumi and Sir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave. I had to process that revelation over time. I questioned what it meant and tried to put it into perspective," Beyonce said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I now believe it's why God blessed me with my twins. Male and female energy was able to coexist and grow in my blood for the first time. I pray that I am able to break the generational curses in my family and that my children will have less complicated," she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The "Formation" hitmaker also said that her family has a "lineage of broken male-female relationships, abuse of power, and mistrust".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Only when I saw that clearly was I able to resolve those conflicts in my own relationship. Connecting to the past and knowing our history makes us both bruised and beautiful," she said, alluding to her husband Jay-Z's extra-marital transgressions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The singer also talked about her pregnancy and body acceptance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After the birth of my first child, I believed in the things society said about how my body should look. I put pressure on myself to lose all the baby weight in three months, and scheduled a small tour to assure I would do it. Looking back, that was crazy."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth to Rumi and Sir. I was swollen from toxemia and had been on bed rest for over a month," Beyonce said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She said the twins were born through an emergency caesarian section and after their birth she resisted pressure to follow "the things society said about how my body should look".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After the C-section, my core felt different. It had been major surgery. Some of your organs are shifted temporarily, and in rare cases, removed temporarily during delivery. I am not sure everyone understands that. I needed time to heal, to recover. During my recovery, I gave myself self-love and self-care, and I embraced being curvier. I accepted what my body wanted to be," Beyonce said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After six months, I started preparing for Coachella. I became vegan temporarily, gave up coffee, alcohol, and all fruit drinks. But I was patient with myself and enjoyed my fuller curves. My kids and husband did, too," she added. </p>