A$AP Rocky spent months publicly wishing for a daughter, and now he’s got one who just turned one. Rihanna and Rocky threw a birthday party for Rocki Irish Mayers on September 13, surrounded by family and close friends, marking a full year since the little one arrived.
Rihanna’s longtime friend Melissa Forde was the one who gave fans a peek inside the celebration, sharing photos from the party on social media.
One of the standout shots showed Rihanna holding and kissing Rocki, the two of them coordinated in pink, which felt very on-brand for the occasion.
The setup itself looked like something out of a toddler’s dream, with pastel balloons and a children’s carousel filling out the background. It was clearly a proper party, not just a low-key family moment, even if the guest list stayed close to home.
Rocki is the couple’s third child and their first daughter, which made her arrival especially meaningful given everything Rocky had said publicly before she was born.
While Rihanna was still pregnant, he sat down with ELLE and was pretty open about what he was hoping for, saying “I hope it’s a girl. I really do. We’re praying for a girl.”
He didn’t stop there either. Rocky told the magazine that the pregnancy felt different from the first two, and doubled down with “I hope it’s a baby girl, man. I need that.”
That kind of candid, unfiltered excitement from someone who doesn’t always wear his heart on his sleeve was a moment people genuinely responded to at the time.
When Rocki finally arrived, Rihanna held off on the announcement for nearly two weeks. She waited until September 24 to post the first photo, a simple image of herself holding her newborn alongside a second shot of tiny pink boxing gloves. The caption was just the facts: “Rocki Irish Mayers. Sept 13 2025.”
That restrained, no-fuss announcement was very Rihanna, and it landed exactly the way she probably intended, letting the image do all the talking.
The pink boxing gloves detail especially got people talking, reading it as a little nod to the fighter in her, or maybe just a cute styling choice, depending on who you asked.
Now Rocki is one, and the family that Rocky once described as his whole world has grown to five. The birthday photos are already circulating widely, and people are very much here for the coordinated pink looks and the carousel backdrop.
Rocky has continued to speak warmly about fatherhood in the months since Rocki’s birth, and watching him go from “I really hope it’s a girl” to celebrating her first birthday feels like a full-circle moment that even casual observers have picked up on. The Mayers household seems to be leaning all the way into this new chapter.
