Just a couple of months after her second American Vogue cover, Beyoncé Knowles has made her British Vogue cover debut in the magazine's May 2013 issue.
The midriff-baring portrait is decidedly more casual than her last spread, but the Houston-born superstar doesn't stray from the real issues — feminism chief among them.
Bey's brand of girl power has been a hot — if perplexing — topic for years, but she puts the question of whether or not she's a bona-fide "feminist" to rest with this interview. Sort of.
"I'm just a woman and I love being a woman."
Beyoncé explained to British Vogue. "But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?"
"That word can be very extreme,"Beyoncé continues, "I do believe in equality and that we have a way to go and it's something that's pushed aside and something that we have been conditioned to accept. But I'm happily married. I love my husband. I feel like Mrs. Carter is who I am, but more bold and more fearless than I've ever been."
Clearly. Have you heard her new track?