In 2019, our Queen, Rihanna Fenty, actually discovered her child lookalike. The doppelgänger looks so much like Rihanna that she almost dropped her phone, and honestly so did we.
Rihanna shared a photo of the miniature doppelgänger on Instagram and Twitter on Tuesday. On first glance, it appears to be Rihanna as a child. Or maybe Rihanna making herself look like a baby with FaceApp? It could also totally be Rihanna's long-lost daughter, or — bear with me here — Rihanna herself, aging in reverse?!
Basically, this child MUST BE Rihanna somehow, because she looks identical to her.
But it's not Rihanna. It's a little girl named Ala'a Skyy Baytops. Unbelievable.
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"Almost drop my phone. How?" Rihanna captioned the photo.
How, indeed. The resemblance is so uncanny that a lot of fans in the comments were actually confused, thinking that perhaps the photo was a fake.
But nope, Ala'a is real. See Rihanna's child twin for yourself below.
Rihanna has been busy these days. The pop singer hasn't released music in a while, much to the annoyance of her fans. But her makeup company Fenty Beauty is thriving, and she's launching a clothing line, too.
But Rihanna still takes time out of her schedule to be funny on Instagram.
On Tuesday, she shared a photo that has everyone shook, including her. It's a photo of someone who looks JUST LIKE HER but in child form.
The person in this photo is not baby Rihanna, shockingly enough. It's a little girl named Ala'a, who basically already has an acting career ahead of her, because anyone who makes a movie about Rihanna's life is 100% going to try to cast Ala'a.
"How?" Rihanna wrote under the photo, and everybody had the same exact question.
Like, maybe this actually is Rihanna's twin/clone/aged-in-reverse-self, and they just don't want us to know about it. Could be aliens? We may never know the truth!!!
Both fans and celeb friends alike commented on the photo to share their disbelief.
Several people mistakenly thought that the photo was the work of FaceApp, the viral app that changes your face into a young or old version of yourself.
Other people thought the little girl was Rihanna's daughter whom she somehow has kept hidden for the past several years.
And a bunch of people were simply speechless.
"Wait. What. Stop. I'm Dead. I can't. Handle. This," one person wrote.
The word of the day seemed to be "wow."
"Woowwwww!" LaLa Anthony wrote.
"Wow?!" Priyanka Chopra agreed.
"Legit WOW," actress Uzo Aduba added to the conversation.
Ala'a, an aspiring child model, has been getting a lot of attention since Rihanna's post. She posted to thank Rihanna for putting her in the spotlight.
"Thank you @badgalriri for posting my picture! I’ve always wanted to be a model," Ala'a wrote.
If anyone can make that happen with a single post, it's probs Rihanna.
Ala'a's mom, Bria Baytops, says she didn't notice the resemblance until other people kept pointing it out.
"Honestly, I never noticed, it is always when people say something like, ‘She looks like Rihanna.’ When I have family over and they see her they will be like, ‘Hey, little Rihanna! Hey, little RiRi!’ And she will respond back to them," Bria told Inside Edition.
Ala'a didn't even know who Rihanna was at first until her mom showed her a photo.
After seeing a photo of Rihanna when she was younger, Bria posted a photo of Ala'a. People kept tagging Rihanna in the comments, hoping that the singer would see the photo.
"All of a sudden I get about 1,000 followers and it was about 12 hours or so, I went to work and as soon I went to work … this woman came and said, ‘Bria, Rihanna shared your daughter," Bria recalled.
She's thankful to Rih for sharing the photo, because now Ala'a's model dreams might really come true.
"All of this feels like fate, I really don’t feel like this is real. It is surreal, that is the best description I have," Bria said. "That is my kid! Who knew that this child would go viral?"
"I just really want her to reach her full potential and get everything that is destined for her. I want her to get everything she wants."
