this is amazing wtfffff

Those were my first thoughts too... Kinda like the Lucy Liu and her out of hte blue announcement. Although Ayu wrote she gave birth as opposed to simply stating she became a mother...

Either way, congratulations to her. I'm amazed at her work ethic and I hope she finds the balance she's looking for and doesn't overdo it.

Also kudos to her and continuing to do things her way and owning it! :)

Completely and utterly shocked LOL...

She didn't post much photos after the trouble tour, no wonder we didn't know. Also at this photo for example https://www.instagram.com/p/B2PMLrHBE34/ she may be pregnant with three baby and no one ever notice

I was also thinking that too...but she stated explicitly that she gave birth...

yeah all pictures after the tour are only her face or flattering clothes.

I guess this is the reason she skipped a-nation last year, in tight summer clothes it whould have been visable.

Great news! Was about to sleep when I saw the news and now Im wide awake!
Congrats to Ayu!! No wonder she looked much more glowing in 2019.
This sort of explains all the things/schedules that happened last year.

Yeah, she had a lot of pics with her hiding her body after the tour ended. I didn't give too much thought to it - just thought she wants to wear comfy clothes at home during her free time. Pregnancy possibility never crossed my mind when I saw these pictures. Damn, Ayu's a total master at hiding stuff. :D

LOL yeah now when i think about it, we hardly saw her in anything body hugging, or if she was wearing a tighter top, they'd cut it off at the shoulders, but like since she's constantly in stage outfits you'd think she just want a comfy ensemble at the rehearsals and stuff. I guess that's why none really thought anything of it. But man, that's some serious dedication to keep news like that out of public eye for 9 fucking months lol

Well you have to factor in that she had a boy and that typically pregnant women carry boys lower whereas girls are much higher. So it would make for her to go a little more unnoticed since he would be hanging lower and possibly easier to disguise. I’m in utter shock though. Not only with her constant touring but slim figure...especially with a lot of her tour costumes were very form fitting. I guess some women in some cases don’t show until the end of the pregnancy which could be her case. Hmmm, it does make sense that she keeps wearing the black strapless sequin dress that flares from under the bust line :think

It also makes sense in which avex hasn’t been putting too much effrontery into her lately and focusing more on other artists.

Woooo!!! So happy for her!

I wonder what's the baby's name.

That's pretty big news. Ayu always cryptic at her Instagram posts, maybe she said something important but we didn't understand.
14th November she wrote that she's happy あゆさん、貴女は幸せ者です。I thought that's because she received LV present) but maybe it's not about it

Talk about a surprise! I thought it was a joke post until the Japanese media jumped on the story.

Going by timeline, she became pregnant in February, and still worked quite far into her pregnancy.

I never would have guessed she was even pregnant after the final tour dates. She didn't gain weight in her face, and her body didn't give off any signs.

I'm happy for her, and I'm happy the baby was born with no complications.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuI4p3Rn...=17jhzwzpmy3ei
"Let’s make some trouble with me babyyyyyyy"
did she announced she was having a baby here??

I wonder if she deleted any posts that reflected the pregnancy. Anyways, I found a couple that kinda show the pregnancy, they’re kinda obvious now:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzN3NkFB...d=nzxmt3zoj61y
https://www.instagram.com/p/B08FOwRB...=1j7yupuusnd0c
https://www.instagram.com/p/B042SjiB...d=ge0b7k37s794

^if you're talking about the clothing. Her stage outfits are usually very form fitting, unless it's from some other concert because i'm sure she did one of the live shows for TV in the same thing, and had a black corset under the tee.
Honestly without context none of these make much sense, cuz she's wearing all kinds of things really on a daily basis lol

I was gonna say Ayu was GLOWING on stage this past year!

^i haveto agree with ya here, she looked exceptionally bright on tours, yes! lol Probably the reason why and most likely some expensive skin care haha

The fact that she kept wearing both the blue and the black dress were definitely due to her pregnancy since they gave room to breathe so to speak:rolleyes also it does seem that she strictly made it so only photos from a particular show versus towards the of the tour *snap*

ANYWAYS. It seems she was alluding to her pregnancy here: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=478 And here: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=481

THIS WOMAN GOES ON TOUR FOR LIKE 2 YEARS STRAIGHT AND PUMPS OUT A CHILD JUST LIKE THAT YET SHE CAN'T DELIVER A NEW ALBUM?!?