--- title: Beyonce Twins Photo: Best Celebrity Fan Reactions description: From Nicki Minaj to Carine Roitfeld, here's how celebrities in the BeyHive are reacting to the first photo of Beyoncé's twins, Sir and Rumi. canonical: https://time.com/4859048/beyonce-twins-celebrity-reactions/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-14T19:17:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:25.240Z og:title: Celebrities React to the First Photo of Beyoncé's Twins og:description: Even stars are fans og:url: https://time.com/4859048/beyonce-twins-celebrity-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a81d3b88ccb1062/6988d5c0196cf41875041071/celebrity-reactions-beyonce-twins-first-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The 59th GRAMMY Awards - Roaming Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrities React to the First Photo of Beyoncé's Twins twitter:description: Even stars are fans twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a81d3b88ccb1062/6988d5c0196cf41875041071/celebrity-reactions-beyonce-twins-first-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Celebrities React Accordingly to the First Picture of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Twins > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS) Christopher Polk—Getty Images for NARAS  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 14, 2017 7:17 PM UTC The [Internet lost their collective minds](http://time.com/4858283/beyonce-twins-names-internet-reactions/) after Beyoncé posted [the first photo of her twins with Jay-Z, Sir and Rumi Carter](http://time.com/4842464/beyonce-jay-z-baby-names/) on her Instagram account. However, it wasn’t just the BeyHive and Jay fans that freaked out over the picture of [the newest Knowles-Carter heirs](http://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/) — fellow celebrities couldn’t contain their excitement and joy over the new additions either. Judging from social media, it looks like the stars really are just like us — at least when it comes to Queen Bey and her beautiful babies. From rapper Nicki Minaj to Zendaya, here are how celebrities are reacting to the first photo of Sir and Rumi. Nicki Minaj took to her Instagram to share her happiness for the Knowles-Carter family. While Zendaya was incredibly impressed with the photoshoot. > [](https://twitter.com/Zendaya/status/885737540883369985) Fashion legend Carine Roitfeld sent her congratulations via Instagram. As did longtime designer for Queen Bey, Peter Dundas. While Janet Mock captioned her tribute to Queen Bey appropriately. Writer and comedian Crissle shared her love for Beyoncé and her babies on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/crissles/status/885743094045343745) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4859048/beyonce-twins-celebrity-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4859048/beyonce-twins-celebrity-reactions/"},"headline":"Celebrities React Accordingly to the First Picture of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Twins","datePublished":"2017-07-14T19:17:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:25.240Z","description":"Even stars are part of the BeyHive","url":"https://time.com/4859048/beyonce-twins-celebrity-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Beyonce","Jay-z","Nicki Minaj"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a81d3b88ccb1062/6988d5c0196cf41875041071/celebrity-reactions-beyonce-twins-first-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a81d3b88ccb1062/6988d5c0196cf41875041071/celebrity-reactions-beyonce-twins-first-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The 59th GRAMMY Awards - Roaming Show","caption":"The 59th GRAMMY Awards - Roaming Show","creditText":"Christopher Polk—Getty Images for NARAS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4859048/beyonce-twins-celebrity-reactions/","name":"Celebrities React Accordingly to the First Picture of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Twins"}}]}] ```